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Published by The Text Publishing Company, 2020

Book design by Jessica Horrocks

Typeset by Rachel Aitken

ISBN: 9781922330307 (paperback)

ISBN: 9781925923728 (ebook)

A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia.


Ninety-eight of the one hundred pieces in this collection have been previously published in Good Weekend. Six of these were first published in the Monthly. And two pieces—‘X’ and ‘Badgering the Witness’—appear here for the first time.