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|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
|sort=Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish
|author=Dido Butterworth and Tim Flannery
|reviewer=John Lloyd
|genre=Historical Fiction
|date=July 2015
|isbn=9781922079305
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Meet Archie Meek. He's about to leave the Venus Islands, where he's lived for the last five years, and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office in the museum and fill it with all the cultural artefacts he's found and wildlife he's plucked or pickled. That's not to ignore the fact he'll count as something quite alien himself, with his filled-out frame, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes to his body. But what's this? When he gets back, he finds one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there in the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanished. Is the weird society of the museum he's returning to, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?
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[[Category:Humour]]
[[Category:Dido Butterworth]]
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