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First published by The Text Publishing Company, 2011

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Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

Author: Beckett, Bernard, 1968–

Title: August / Bernard Beckett.

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 9781921758041 (pbk.)

Dewey Number: NZ823.2