by David McNamara (Thomas Clarke Publishing) After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from UWA, David McNamara needed to ‘flee from twenty years sequestration in one place’ so, for nearly 15 years he backpacked around the world. Removing himself from the tourist trails and comforts, he writes about the positives of escaping to ‘mountains and [...]
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by Diane Keaton (Fourth Estate) When Diane Keaton was in the ninth grade, she vowed that she would never get married. Turning sixty-six this year, she has still not married, even though it hasn’t stopped her having affairs with many of her leading men including Woody Allen, Warren Beatty and Al Pachino. And it didn’t [...]
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5 Jun 2012 |
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by Rose Foster (Harper Collins) Apart from being in advanced mathematics and science classes at her Melbourne school, sixteen year-old Kira Haywood feels that she is anonymous. Keeping up to date with her homework is one way to fly beneath the radar but she resents it when teachers set time-wasting tasks with no academic purpose. [...]
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5 Jun 2012 |
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