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Salt

Selected Stories and Essays

by Bruce Pascoe

Narrator Bruce Pascoe

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Length 8 hours 54 minutes

Language English

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A collection of stories and essays by the award-winning author of Dark Emu, showcasing his shimmering genius across a lifetime of work.

Bruce Pascoe has been described as a ‘living national treasure’ and his work as ‘revelatory’. This volume of his best and most celebrated stories and essays, collected here for the first time, ranges across his long career, and explores his enduring fascination with Australia’s landscape, culture, land management and history.

Featuring new and previously unpublished fiction alongside his most revered and thought-provoking nonfiction – including extracts from his modern classic Dark Emu – this collection is perfect for Pascoe fans and new readers alike. It’s time all Australians saw the range and depth of this most marvellous of local writers.

Short Stories Literary Criticism

Bruce Pascoe is a Yuin, Bunurong, and Tasmanian writer and farmer. He has published thirty-six books, including the bestselling Dark Emu, which won the NSW Premier’s Award for Literature in 2016, and Young Dark Emu: A Truer History, which won the both the Booksellers Association Prize and the CBCA Non-fiction award in 2020. As a farmer, he grows Australian Aboriginal grains and tubers. He is also a Board Member of First Languages Australia, Black Duck Foods, and Twofold Aboriginal Corporation.

Bruce Pascoe is an award-winning Australian writer, editor and anthologist. His books include Shark, Ruby-eyed Coucal, Ocean, Earth and Nightjar. Bruce has also written a number of non-fiction works, including Dark Emu, Convincing Ground, a Wathaurong language dictionary and The Little Red, Yellow, Black Book. His awards include the Prime Minister’s award for Young Adult Literature for Fog a Dox and the NSW Premier’s Book of the Year for Dark Emu.