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- ↑ "Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021 longlist announced". Books+Publishing. 18 May 2021. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
- ↑ "Laguna wins 2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award". Books+Publishing. 15 October 2021. Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ↑ Susan Wyndham, "Novelist gets top Mileage out of drama", The Age, 24 June 2015, p. 12
