In April 2012, multi-platinum boy band and teenage heart throbs One Direction will be coming to Australia! The three special event shows were organised after hundreds of dedicated Australian fans participated in ‘1D’ dance flash mobs throughout the nation. It’s no surprise that devoted ‘Directioners’ camped out overnight to score tickets, which sold out in [...]
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Claire Bidwell Smith’s, The Rules of Inheritance, is an emotionally charged memoir exploring the myriad nature of grief. Bidwell Smith was fourteen-years-old the year that both her mother and father were diagnosed with cancer. By the time she was twenty-five she had lost both parents and, as an only child, was left feeling completely and [...]
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I’m Aboriginal. I’m just not the Aboriginal person a lot of people want or expect me to be. The story of an urban-based high achieving Aboriginal woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia. What does it mean to be Aboriginal? Why is Australia so obsessed with notions of [...]
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Vivid tale of life in pre-revolutionary Paris beats Matthew Hollis’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. [...]
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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’re a 35 year old, white, British, middle-class business man sentenced to three years in Big Spring, one of America’s most notorious prisons. You’ve been told that if get into any [...]
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The first of its kind, A Twitter Year distills a year of conversation, argument, revelation and revolution into a ‘review of the year’ 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 [...]
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