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Malcolm Knox argues that innovative language defines great writing. He illustrates his argument by comparing specific phrases from Andrew McGahan's The White Earth, Kate Grenville's The Secret River, Delia Falconer's The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and American novelist Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men.