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Bogaerts, Greg

Set in Newcastle, Asutralia in the bleak 1880s and 1890s, Black Diamonds and Dust excavates a rare seam in Australian writing; the coal mining novel. It tells the story of miner Edmund Shearer and his family. We are also told the story of a community, its tragedies, its struggles and its ever-present capacity for outbreaks of humour and festive joy in the face of adversity.