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In Australian literature: Literature in the 21st century
>Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) and Orpheus Lost (2007). The Secret River (2005), another tale of the life of a British convict in Australia, earned Kate Grenville the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best book. Other Australians who published novels of note in the…
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The political thrillers Due Preparations for the Plague (2003) and Orpheus Lost (2007) reflect the pervasive fear of terrorism following the September 11, 2001, attacks. In the mystery The Claimant (2014), Hospital explored issues of identity and social class. She published A Very Proper Death (1990) under the…
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