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Rosemary’s Book of the Week

Subject – Life So Full of Promise: vivid, compelling stories about Australia’s lost generation. Ross McMullin. “His scholarship is impeccable, he writes like an angel … and his narrative gift is Blaineyesque”. Award-winning historian, biographer and storyteller Ross McMullin returns to the BMI for a talk about his latest book. His multi-biographies about Australia’s lost

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