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  • Australian Country

    OFF THE SHELF

    Mar 06, 2019 3 minutes
    COMPILED BY KIRSTY MCKENZIE

    BACK ROADS

    HEATHER EWART & KAREN MICHELMORE, ABC BOOKS, $29.99

    ost AC readers are probably familiar with the wonderful insight into the Australian bush that the ABC TV series, Back Roads, provides. In this book, the show’s presenter, Heather Ewart, and producer and writer Karen Michelmore have teamed up to introduce readers to some of the colourful characters who give the program such quirky charm. From the Deadly Runners of Thursday Island and travelling hairdressers in far-north Queensland to Harrow’s indigenous cricketers of Victoria’s Western District and transgender former truck driver, shearer and farmer Diane Reeves, these profiles of

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