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Actually I wasn't accurate. I should of said "some", not "most" of his work deals with the period 40's to 70's. Now that I think of it, the balance over all his books is more towards the earlier part of the 20th Century and some like Voss back into the 19th Century. I think he never caught up with the Australia of the '60s and '70s. I think like most writers he tended to look back to the days of his youth. Understandable I suppose, as that is usually the most painful and the most joyful, or it is often perceived to be so.