The Local Wildlife
Hamish Hamilton, $29.99 hb, 245 pp, 9781926448482
Memoir
Mayhem
by Dennis Haskell •
Pre-teen and early teen years had me and many others enjoying Ross Campbell’s witty column in the Sunday Telegraph newspaper about the goings-on in ‘Oxalis Cottage’, a fictionalised version of his Sydney home. Robert Drewe’s often hilarious columns for The Age and The Weekend West are a kind of modern equivalent, and a selection of them is brought together to form The Local Wildlife.
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