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Away was first published in Sydney by Currency Press in 1986, with later Currency issues from 1988. No separate British edition of the play has been found. Its first UK publication is in the anthology 'Australia Plays', introduced by Katharine Brisbane, published in London by Nick Hern Books in 1989 as a paperback (ISBN 1854590561), xxvii plus 397 pages. The anthology also contains No Sugar (Jack Davis), The Rivers of China (Alma De Groen), The Golden Age (Louis Nowra) and Travelling North (David Williamson). Some dealers date it 1990; the library record and most listings give 1989. Ex-library copies listed as hardback are not a publisher's hardback issue.
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Nick Hern Books, London, in 1989, in paperback.
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