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Brett

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Steve Blake, Scott Lloyd: The Lost Legend of Arthur (Paperback, Rider & Co) 4 stars

Arthur of the Britons ^h Wales

4 stars

This book puts forward a fairly convincing case that Arthur was actually a Welsh warlord. I'm not in a position to judge the merits of the argument, but I will always be lost in the romance of being able to read the words of a man from a thousand years ago, and walk the land they may have walked.

Patricia Wrightson: The Nargun and the stars. (1974, Atheneum) 4 stars

An ancient stone creature threatens the lives of a family on a lonely sheep farm …

Australian mythology meets Western colonialism

4 stars

This is a children's book, and should be judged by those standards.

I very much appreciated how this captured the interface between Australian mythology and western culture as a farming family deal fairly sensitively with something outside their ken, although there seemed to be a large gap where the First Nation people should be (perhaps excusable given the 1974 publication date, but perhaps not).

I'm a little surprised it didn't make it in as an Australian classic.

Also taking a month to read 140 pages of easy text is not a good look. Do better, Brett.