Red Dog
Author: Louis de Bernières
The enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the author of the bestselling Captain Corelli’s Mandolin.‘In early 1998 I went to Perth in Western Australia in order to attend the literature festival, and part of the arrangement was that I should go to Karratha to do their first ever literary dinner. Karratha is a mining town a long way further north. The landscape is e….Read More
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