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Nathan Hobby "The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard"
Nathan Hobby shares his choices while crafting The Red Witch; A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard. Here’s what you’ll discover:
Katharine Susannah Prichard’s significance as a trailblazing Australian novelist and political figure who co-founded the Australian Communist Party
How Pritchard’s ground-breaking novels reflected her social ideals
Nathan’s extensive research process, from scouring archives to retracing Prichard’s footsteps
The book’s structure and narrative style
The difficulties of dealing with unreliable or biased source material
The challenging decisions involved in…
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