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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 [Review] The Build Up Season
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'The build-up referred to in the title of this novel is that time between 'the dry' in the Northern Territory and the start of 'the wet', roughly September to December. The story is set in Darwin, where the author grew up and the book cover reflects the arterial rivers and creeks, a lightening strike, the isolation of the area and the defiance and stoicism of so many of the top-enders as well as the characters in the story. Parallel to the build-up in the weather, the story is set in the build-up to the Year 12 exams, also a time of great tension and volatility. (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Magpies : Talking About Books for Children vol. 32 no. 4 September 2017 12542106 2017 periodical issue

    'Rolling a hitherto unknown word off the tongue or rediscovering an under-used word can be very satisfying in, I suspect, the manner of young children who seem to savour words for their sound. However, when you consider the importance of those words, those 26 letters employed to craft them cannot be over estimated : they are the building blocks of expression, and lifters of communication, thought, ideas, instruction ... all arranged in a myriad of combinations to produce, according to the 2nd edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, 171,486 words in current use. Add the many languages around the world and the concept is mind-blowing.' (Editorial)

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