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Nock Loose (Patrick Marlborough, Fremantle)

Tuesday, 20 May 2025    Books+Publishing
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Patrick Marlborough’s Nock Loose is a wryly postmodern and cynically satirical novel that hits the ground running and never lets up. Marlborough scorns the ‘dire humourlessness’ of Australian literature in their author’s note and channels Monty Python, anime and Tarantino in a riotous, genre-bending tale. The story moves between protagonist...

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