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Best Australian books of the 21st century: as chosen by 50 experts Original

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By Jo Case Verified, Aidan Coleman, Alexander Cothren, Alexander Howard, Ali Mohammad Alizadeh, Amanda Tink, Astrid Edwards, Brenda Walker, Brian Castro, Brigid Magner, Brigitta Olubas, Briohny Doyle, Camilla Nelson, Carol Lefevre, Clare Wright, Danielle Wood, David McCooey, Debra Adelaide, Edwina Preston, Elfie Shiosaki, Emmett Stinson, Hsu-Ming Teo, Jane Gleeson-White, Jen Webb, Julian Novitz, Julieanne Lamond, Jumana Bayeh, Kevin Brophy, Leah Jing McIntosh, Liz Evans, Lyn McCredden, Lynda Ng, Maggie Nolan, Matthew Lamb, Monique Rooney, Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Natalie Kon-yu, Nicholas Jose, Paul Giles, Penni Russon, Ronnie Scott, Sally Breen, Sarah Holland-Batt, Sian Prior, Stephen Romei, Tanya Dalziell, Tom Doig, Tony Hughes-D'Aeth, Vijay Mishra, Yves Rees
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Like so many avid readers around the world, I was fascinated by the recent New York Times list of the Best Books of the 21st century, as voted by 503 authors, critics and book lovers. But like many Australians, I was disappointed to see no Australian books on the list. Even those authors who’ve made a splash in the US literary scene this century – Helen Garner, Gerald Murnane, Maria Tumarkin – didn’t get a guernsey. That’s where we come in.
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Lyn McCredden reviews ‘At the Flash & At the Baci’ by Ken Bolton

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By Lyn McCredden, Arts Highlights
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I learnt today, while being read Ken Bolton’s poetry aloud by a friend (a native South Australian), that Hindley rhymes with ‘kind’ and not with ‘wind’. My friend spontaneously started reading to me and couldn’t stop. It runs on, this K.B. speaking voice: compulsive, South Australian, poetic, paranoid, poignant, funny.
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Amid dreadful sexual abuse, sport brings grace in a school memoir that resists easy judgement

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By Lyn McCredden
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A friend likes to remind me about the one time I attended an Ashes test in Melbourne, Boxing Day, 1974. The crowd was waiting, excited, to watch the English team, and Dennis Amiss particularly, front up to the wicket. On he came, bravely facing just eight balls. Then he was caught out, having scored a paltry four runs. I cried. How humiliating and soul-shrivelling for him, I thought. But my Australian (male) friends couldn’t understand at all. Crying?
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