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RODNEY HALL Vortex. Reviewed by Paul Anderson
Rodney Hall has won the Miles Franklin Award twice; his new novel is a panoramic alternative history of the twentieth century ...
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AMITAV GHOSH Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s hidden histories. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck
Novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to ...
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AMITAV GHOSH Smoke and Ashes: Opium’s hidden histories. Reviewed by Braham Dabscheck
Award-winning novelist Amitav Ghosh turns to non-fiction to chart the greed and racism at the heart of British and American opium sales to China. In researching his Ibis Trilogy novels – Sea of ...