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THE LOVERS by Vendela Vida GREAT HOUSE by Nicole Krauss FATHER OF THE RAIN by Lily King IN THE SKIN OF A LION by Michael Ondaatje THE COLD EYE OF HEAVEN by Christine Dwyer Hickey FOAL'S BREAD by Gillian Mears SUPER SAD TRUE LOVE STORY by Gary Shteyngart LOVE IN THE YEARS OF LUNACY by Mandy Sayer CALEB'S CROSSING by Geraldine Brooks THIS LIFE by Malcolm Knox THE PICTURE BOOK by Jo Baker THE TIGER'S WIFE by Tea Obrecht ANNABEL by Kathleen Winter THE BOOK THIEF by Marcus Zusack ROOM by Emma Donoghue THE STEEP APPROACH TO GARBADALE by Iain Banks ON WRITING by Stephen King ABOUT A BOY by Nick Hornby THE AGE OF GRIEF by Jane Smiley BEATRICE and VIRGIL by Yann Martel KRAKATOA by Simon Winchester CONTEMPORARY AUSTRALIAN SHORT STORIES by Murray Bail THE FIRST STONE by Helen Garner HAVING A LOVELY TIME by Jenny EclairThought Bubble
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- bookstore closures
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- Charles Dickens
- children's literacy
- children's picture books
- culling brumbies
- Dorothy Owston-Booth
- Dr Kay Scarpetta
- e-books
- e-readers
- Elyne Mitchell
- Enid Blyton
- Ernest Hemingway
- F.Scott Fitzgerald
- Flags of the Empire
- Gustauve Flaubert
- Henry James
- holiday houses
- independent book sellers
- Kate Munro
- Kerry Argent
- Kindle
- Kurt Vonnegut
- libraries
- Lionel Shriver
- literary criticism
- literary fiction
- Mae West
- Marian Keyes
- Mark Twain
- Mother's Day
- NSW Premier's Reading Challenge
- Orange Prize
- paperback books
- Pears' Cyclopaedia
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- Sam Lipsyte
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- Sofie Laguna
- South Coast NSW
- Stella Prize
- story telling
- The First Time
- The Hoopla
- The Man From Snowy River
- The More it Snows
- The New Yorker
- The Portrait of a Lady
- The Silver Brumby
- The Snowy Mountains
- The Sydney Writers Festival
- The Virginity Project
- Thomas McGuane
- Tinkerbell
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- Too Loud Lily
- Truman Capote
- Vanity Fair
- We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Monthly Archives: June 2011
Party-Pooping Smarty-Pants…Ruining the Punchline
My girlfriend Marilyn* and I have been friends for over twenty years now. Our lives have headed in different directions making it difficult to sustain the friendship through running a successful business and doing a degree in American politics (Marilyn) … Continue reading
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Tagged book blurbs, Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Blowy, squally bratty ….perfect reading weather!
With all this miserable weather we’ve been having in Sydney lately, hasn’t it been wonderful to a) Have an excuse to wear trakkies and ugg boots all day, b) Make rib sticking food like oxtail, osso buco, puddings and crumble, … Continue reading
Nudge, nudge, wink wink. Say no more…
One of Britain’s top literary magazines has dedicated itself to recognizing and rewarding writers of the worst sex scene in a novel. Each year, the Bad Sex in Fiction Award highlights “the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages … Continue reading
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Tagged Bad Sex in Fiction Award, Henry James, sex in literature, The Portrait of a Lady
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And the winner takes it all…..
The literary world is hot under the collar. On the back of, or because of, The Sydney Writers Festival, intelligent vibrant women are discoursing, railing against and are a downright snappy about the proportional representation of women in Australian literary … Continue reading
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