Mirranda Burton

NOTABLE BOOK: 2022 CBCA Book of the Year, Eve Pownall Award Why would a wombat be registered for war? It's 1965, and an old Tattersalls barrel starts rolling marbles to randomly conscript young Australian men to fight in the war in Vietnam. Melbourne housewife Jean McLean is outraged, as are her artist friends Clif and Marlene Pugh, who live in...