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If the Nobel Prize for Literature can have a Boomer moment and give Bob Dylan the nod, Alan Moore – a legend in the history of comics – might be in the running too. proved.starts in 1949 and is largely set in an alternate “Long London”, entered after Dennis Knuckleyard, a teen who works in an eccentric Shoreditch bookstore, picks up a weird book.
We follow Oriane, who lives in a remote village with a mystical legacy inherited from her mother. She can transform into a skylark, with the power to call the sun each morning. Curiosity leads Oriane into the dangers and intrigues of the royal court, where she’s worshipped as a goddess but effectively imprisoned in the role. Her maid, Andala, also has a secret and as a schism erupts in the kingdom, it transpires that our heroine is not alone as she thinks.
Morton, in measured writing fuelled with rage and sorrow in equal measure, walks us through one of the most shameful episodes in recent Australian politics, taking in prime ministers, pressured public servants, a whistleblower and case studies of the poor sods who were hunted down by their own government. A morality tale for our times.
Everybody loves a good ghost story and there are hauntings aplenty in this record of paranormal activity in Oz.
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