If you liked the ABC"s Seachange and Grassroots, you"ll love The Buggerum Intrigue. Set in a fictitious town in regional Victoria, Australia, the novel and the quirky characters it portrays will be familiar to anyone who"s dared to live outside a major city and experience life in the medium to slow lane. Told by Reg Reid, the village"s postman of 35 years, who"d always had ambitions to become a writer but had never managed it until now, the secret lives of the residents come alive. Think of the exposés in Thornton Wilder"s Our Town, with a generous dollop of Peter Carey wit.