Wendy Jones has written a surprisingly restrained and moving book. There are secrets which aren’t pretty, there are shocks without sensationalism. This is a novel about duty, love, loss and responsibility and it deserves a very wide audience.
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The Candidates: The Make Me Think Party I read because I am interested in humanity. I read because I want to understand why we behave the way we do. I read because the greatest minds have recorded their thoughts in their writings. I read, then, because I have not given up on life. I read [...]
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Booktopia has partnered with one of the world’s largest companies and leading internet businesses, Google ™ , to bring you their Google eBooks ™ system. Buying eBooks from Booktopia.com.au using the Google eBooks ™ platform will give you the flexibility to read books on devices you own today and devices you will buy in the [...]
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Booktopia’s Google eBooks ™ Press Release 8th November 2011 8am Booktopia™ launches its new eBook offering today. Australian book buyers can buy their eBooks from Booktopia.com.au from Tuesday 8th November. Booktopia selected the Google eBooks™ platform as its preferred eBooks solution and is extremely pleased to offer hundreds of thousands of eBooks available for immediate [...]
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Dear Booktopians, We have exciting news today! You can now buy eBooks at Booktopia. Click here to browse our eBook range, place an order… and start reading in seconds. Order online and start reading a book you wanted in just seconds. We have hundreds of thousands of eBooks to read right now.
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WEEK THREE WINNERS – CONGRATULATIONS TO: Booktopia Weekly $250 RRP worth of Books Week 3 Winner: T. Morfea, Baulkham Hills, NSW Random House – Prize 1 – Julie Goodwin signed Breast Cancer Awareness Apron Week 3 Winner: A. Balassone, Templestowe, VIC Simon & Schuster – Prize 1 – Becca Fitzpatrick Sydney Event Double Pass + [...]
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On the fifth Indigenous Literacy Day (ILD), Wednesday September 7, 2011, Booktopia will donate its entire daily profit to help raise urgently-needed funds to address the literacy crisis amongst Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in remote and isolated communities. On this day, each book you purchase from Booktopia will contribute towards ensuring that no one [...]
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