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The South Australian Saga series by Stephen Crabbe provides a fascinating view into WWI life in the South Australian capital, Adelaide. It starts on Kangaroo Island, a veritable nature reserve south-west of Adelaide. Three volumes [so far] engage the reader with real-life historical glimpses of everyday life, the local effects of a war fought on distant shores, how families coped, and the Australian resilience and hardiness which became legendary.
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The Bryn Awbrey Novels by Rosanne Dingli are staged mainly in Venice, where eccentric Welsh professor Bryn Awbrey lives. Notorious for an accumulation of hoarded ephemera that crowds his house, he nonetheless has a sharp well-read mind that solves historical mysteries and contemporary dilemmas for Australian visitors to the Italian city.
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