Grasping at Shadows: Balfour, the mining town in the Tarkine by Heather Nimmo | PB Anthology Bolero in the bloodstream |

Bolero in the bloodstream | Bronwyn Scanlon

This is his first full-length work to be published

where she now lives

where they struck it rich as miners and innkeepers

Grasping at Shadows: Balfour, the mining town in the Tarkine by Heather Nimmo | PB Anthology Bolero in the bloodstream |Heather Nimmos engaging book is a chain of reminiscences as well as the story of the swift rise and fall of the gallant mining field called Balfour. Of the hundreds of books on the history of our mining fields, this is the only one I know which so neatly combines these two ingredients of history and memoir. ~ Professor Geoffrey Blainey In 1975, a young Adelaide teacher, who wanted to write for the theatre, fell in love with a geologist and followed