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By far the best book I read this year was The Uses of Pessimism by Roger Scruton, one of those rare books that one finishes truly enlightened.

Peter Ryan’s memoir of his 26 years as Director of Melbourne University Press, Final Proof, was launched by Geoffrey Blainey on Friday night with a dinner at the Marriott in Melbourne.

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The Holy Well, by Colin Macpherson. Mopoke Publishing, 2007, $37.95.

Bren is born somewhere in the eastern Highlands of Scotland, in the late Bronze Age, about 3000 years ago, beside a loch. He is the son of the local chief, and is destined to succeed his father. James is born to ordinary parents in a working-class suburb of Melbourne in the middle decades of the twentieth century.