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King of Dirt (Holden Sheppard, Pantera)

Tuesday, 8 April 2025    Books+Publishing
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Holden Sheppard hits again with the blunt edge of Australian queerness in his latest novel, King of Dirt. Continuing his work in the gay coming-of-age genre (Sheppard’s 2019 debut Invisible Boys won the TAG Hungerford Award for an unpublished manuscript and was recently adapted into a Stan original series), the author...

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