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		<title>News from the UK: Costa book award: Andrew Miller wins for sixth novel, Pure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vivid tale of life in pre-revolutionary Paris beats Matthew Hollis&#8217;s biography of Edward Thomas to £30,000 prize cheque writes Mark Brown in The Guardian A vividly told story of life in pre-revolutionary Paris on Tuesday won the 2011 Costa book award in what turned out to be a bitterly fought two-way tussle between fact and fiction. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=21790&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TRUE STORY: Gang of One by Gary Mulgrew</title>
		<link>http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/12/14/true-story-gang-of-one-by-gary-mulgrew/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GANG OF ONE is an explosive prison memoir with the gritty realism of Midnight Express and the emotional force of The Shawshank Redemption. Imagine you&#8217;re a 35 year old, white, British, middle-class business man sentenced to three years in Big Spring, one of America&#8217;s most notorious prisons. You&#8217;ve been told that if get into any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=21184&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EDMUND DU WAAL, author of The Hare With Amber Eyes and The Pot Book, answers Ten Terrifying Questions</title>
		<link>http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/12/11/edmund-du-waal-author-of-the-hare-with-amber-eyes-and-the-pot-book-answers-ten-terrifying-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Booktopia Book Guru asks EDMUND DU WAAL author of The Hare With Amber Eyes and The Pot Book Ten Terrifying Questions &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself &#8211; where were you born? Raised? Schooled? Nottingham, Lincoln and Canterbury. My father was a clergyman and we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=20807&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books for the men in your life for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/12/06/book-for-the-men-in-your-life-for-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toni Whitmont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With historical must-reads from Peter FitzSimons on Sir Douglas Mawson, to the brilliant fiction that is Elliot Perlman's The Street Sweeper,   to highly anticipated autobiographies from  cricket fast bowler Brett Lee and Tour de France Green Jersey winner Robbie McEwen you will have all your Christmas gifts covered<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=20754&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Twitter Year: 365 Days in 140 Characters compiled by Kate Bussmann</title>
		<link>http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/11/22/a-twitter-year-365-days-in-140-characters-comiled-by-kate-bussmann/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first of its kind, A Twitter Year distills a year of conversation, argument, revelation and revolution into a &#8216;review of the year&#8217; as written by the Twitter community. Where can you find first-hand accounts of the Arab Spring, Japan’s nuclear disaster or the Norwegian atrocities? Thousands flouting celebrity superinjunctions? X-rated snaps of politicians? A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=20637&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Joy McKean, author of I&#8217;ve Been There (and Back Again), answers Ten Terrifying Questions</title>
		<link>http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/11/18/joy-mckean-author-of-ive-been-there-and-back-again-answers-ten-terrifying-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Booktopia Book Guru asks Joy McKean author of I&#8217;ve Been There (and Back Again): Slim Dusty and Joy McKean&#8217;s Lifetime of Travel, Stories and Songs Ten Terrifying Questions &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself &#8211; where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born in Singleton in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=20601&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Popham, author of The Lady and the Peacock: the Life of Aung San Suu Kyi, answers Ten Terrifying Questions</title>
		<link>http://blog.booktopia.com.au/2011/11/16/peter-popham-author-of-the-lady-and-the-peacock-the-life-of-aung-san-suu-kyi-answers-ten-terrifying-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Booktopia Book Guru asks Peter Popham author of The Lady and the Peacock: the Life of Aung San Suu Kyi Ten Terrifying Questions &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself &#8211; where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born in a village in County Cork, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=19948&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monica McInerney : Five Favourites Books for 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monica McInerney author of Lola’s Secret, A Taste for It, Upside Down Inside Out, Spin the Bottle, The Alphabet Sisters, Family Baggage, All Together Now, Those Faraday Girls and At Home with the Templetons reveals… The 5 best books I read this year are… How to Be a Woman by Caitlin Moran I have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=20460&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything&#8217;s Coming Up Kardashian&#8230; (but I hear there&#8217;s a cream for it)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<title>On Melbourne Cup Day &#8211; Bart Cummings is The Master, according to Les Carlyon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the world of horse racing, Bart Cummings is the master. His astonishing tally of twelve Melbourne Cup wins arguably makes him the greatest trainer in Australia&#8217;s history and, by statistical measures, as freakish as Bradman. His laconic wit and indifference to the trappings of wealth and fame have seen him recognised as a national [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=20014&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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