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Street Fight In Naples: A Book Of Art And Insurrection by Peter Robb

Started Mar 28, 2011

Life - Keith Richards

Started Jan 31, 2011

Generation A - Douglas Coupland

Started Dec 29, 2010

 

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Favourite authors?
Graham Greene, Damon Runyon, Jan Morris, Freya Stark, Wilfred Thesiger

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Staff picks - July 2011

Bevan, Christopher J.

A Kinchela boy : a novel.

AUSTRALIAN /BEVA

Blain, Georgia.

Too close to home.

AUSTRLALIAN /BLAI  …
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Posted on June 28, 2011 at 13:17

Killing fairies & The Lighter Side of...Strumpets: reasons to read romance fiction

My friend @VaVeros reads romance.

Romance?! ... why?! ...

So she told me.

 

Posted on April 28, 2011 at 13:23

Staff picks - May 2011

Recommended Library Reading List - May 2011

Fforde, Jasper.

One of our Thursdays is missing.

FANTASY /FFOR  

Rothfuss, Patrick.

The…
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Posted on April 28, 2011 at 12:36

Staff picks - April 2011

Jones, Gail.

Five bells.

AUSTRALIAN /JONE

Franklin, Tom.

Crooked letter, crooked letter.

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Posted on March 29, 2011 at 11:03

Happy Birthday Wikipedia

The free encyclopedia that anyone can edit is 10 years old. I refer to it almost every day. Three cheers for Wikipedia.

This is what culture looks like, a process of argument, of dissenting and accreting opinion, of gradual codification. And for the first time in history, we're building a system that, perhaps only for a brief time but certainly for the moment, is capable of recording and making use of every single one of…

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Posted on January 31, 2011 at 14:44

Comment Wall (7 comments)

At 11:45 on February 17, 2009, Lindach said…
I didn't realise Freya Stark was one of your favourite writers she is also one of mine and my daughter was named after her!
At 2:41 on May 30, 2009, Suzanne Craig said…
Thanks, Bern! There was a book I read many years ago about a woman crossing WA on her own with a few camels that I'd love to track down. I think it was called 'Tracks' but I'm not sure. Ring any bells...?
At 2:42 on May 30, 2009, Suzanne Craig said…
BTW - love Graham Greene, too. Looks we have similar taste!
At 3:39 on June 1, 2009, Suzanne Craig said…
Thanks, Bern! My reading list has grown twenty-fold this week!
At 10:01 on August 6, 2009, Lindach said…
I'm yet to find an Irish vampire book ! Of course Bram Stoker was Irish so that's about as close as I 've got to Irish vampires. However there are some vampire type creatures in Irish Celtic mythology.
At 15:40 on October 16, 2009, Ashleigh Veitch said…
Yay for manga! Thanks for the happy snaps!
At 15:42 on October 16, 2009, Ashleigh Veitch said…
dazorama says he has been following your flickr and tweets, will email this weekend...keep having an awesome trip
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