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Can You Judge Wayback by its Cover?
Can you judge Gerard Dean's memoir, Wayback, by its cover? Read on to find out...
Gerard Dean
Jan 62 min read


Penguin Books Betrays Australian Soldiers!
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. But we all do when we see the front cover of Nick Lloyd’s epic The Western Front on the bookshop shelf...
Gerard Dean
Jan 20 min read


A Christmas Carrot
‘Gerard and Joe said they are shooting reindeer tonight... they might shoot at Santa’s reindeer. Then he won’t bring our Christmas presents down the chimney...’
Gerard Dean
Dec 24, 20256 min read


Old McDonald’s Farm
In the wheelbarrow, there’s an enormous baby with huge black eyes, a pink head with no hair and a white nappy around his tummy... He looks strangely familiar...
Gerard Dean
Nov 4, 20252 min read


The Dimboola Sufferers’ Club
This is a story from "Wayback" about the day the Dimboola Sufferers' Club had to decide whether to accept a new member... But had he suffered enough?
Gerard Dean
Oct 27, 20253 min read
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