Abby runs her own agency, providing beautiful girls for promotional events. She needs a new website and when she calls in the web contractors, none other than the gorgeous, sexy, young Marcus turns up. Abby had met Marcus at a party a few weeks earlier and they had an amazing one-night stand. Abby is not [...]
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Inheritance The Inheritance Cycle : Book 4 Not so very long ago, Eragon – Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider – was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now, the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders. Long months of training and battle have [...]
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Ever since I read Richard Dawkins’ letter to his 10 year old daughter in which he describes the different ways we come to ‘know’ things I have been hoping he would write a book about knowledge aimed at young people. And Dawkins hasn’t let me down. The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really [...]
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The latest must-have book in the DIY/interior/crafty stakes is Design* Sponge at Home by Grace Bonney. This book is attracting a huge amount of interest and it won’t even be published until September. Meanwhile, pre-orders are going ballistic all over the world, and I mean all. Here in Australia, this gorgeous and creative how-to primer with everything from fabric to paint is already shaping up to be the giftbook for crafters and clever would-be interior designers for Christmas.
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James Bond returns in a contemporary new thriller by Number One bestselling author Jeffery Deaver. The novel is called CARTE BLANCHE and will be set in the present day. In Carte Blanche, Bond has been deftly updated for a contemporary setting. As part of his latest assignment, 007 travels to an assortment of exotic modern [...]
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During 2011, the first volume of George R R Martin’s glorious high fantasy, A Song of Ice and Fire, will be aired in Australia as an HBO series on Foxtel. It premièred on Sunday in the USA & UK and pulled in 4.2 million viewers You have the chance to read the trilogy before it screens [...]
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Call me a nerd, I don’t care. This boxed set of 50 Mini Modern Classics has to be the sexiest thing I have seen for years. Order the box – here – or order the titles individually – here To celebrate our 50th anniversary Penguin are publishing 50 Mini Modern Classics: the best short fiction [...]
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To grasp the shadowy and fantasmal form of a book, to hold it fast, to turn it over and survey it at leisure – that is the effort of a critic of books, and it is perpetually defeated. Nothing, no power, will keep a book steady and motionless before us, so that we may have [...]
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