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*Winner of the Nonfiction Award 2020 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature*
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*Winner of the 2019 NSW Premier’s History Award: Australian History Prize*
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*Winner of the 2019 Prime Minister’s Australian History Prize*
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*Winner of the 2019 CHASS Australia Book Prize*
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*Australian Christian Book of the Year in 2018*
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Koby Abberton emerges like a shark on to the sand at Maroubra Beach. Tattooed from shoulder to shoulder, his body bares letters like teeth: ‘My brothers keeper’.
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In this multi-award-winning history of the Bible in Australia, historian Meredith Lake gets under the skin of a text that’s been wrestled with, preached and tattooed, and believed to be everything from a resented imposition to the very Word of God.
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A must-read for non-believers and believers alike, The Bible in Australia, now with a new preface, explores how in the hands of Bible-bashers, immigrants, suffragists, evangelists, unionists, writers, artists and Indigenous Australians, the Good Book has played a defining and contested role in this country.
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