Dark Roots by Cate Kennedy This is a great short story collection from one of Australia’s best known short story writers - Cate Kennedy. Cate’s a real master of the craft and Dark Roots is a fantastic read of well crafted tales. I thoroughly recommend it.

Cate Kennedy Bio: Cate Kennedy is an award-winning short-story writer who has twice won The Age short story competition. ‘Cold Snap’, one of Cate’s stories in Dark Roots, was published in The New Yorker on 11 September 2006. Cate is also the author of the travel memoir Sing and Don’t Cry: A Mexican Journal and the poetry collections Joyflight and Signs of Other Fires. She is now at work on her first novel.

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