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		<title>Kylie Ladd, author of Last Summer, answers Six Sharp Questions</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Booktopia Book Guru asks Kylie Ladd author of Last Summer and After the Fall Six Sharp Questions &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; 1. Congratulations, you have a new book. What is it about and what does it mean to you? Last Summer is about what happens to a close group of friends when the man at their centre, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=16036&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Life by Malcolm Knox. A review by author Kylie Ladd</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 01:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Purcell, The Booktopia Book Guru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malcolm Knox knows how to get my attention. I first became aware of him when I chanced across his 2006 book Secrets Of The Jury Room, a dramatic account of his experiences as a juror on a lengthy criminal trial. A few years earlier I had been in a similar situation as the foreperson on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=14962&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading books in situ &#8211; Jerusalem by Simon Sebag Montefiore</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 01:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toni Whitmont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Montefiore's take on Jerusalem is both a physical and spiritual chronology. And what a subject! Could there be any place on earth that has been so fought over, so prized by so many different people's across three millenia?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=11340&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Winton&#8217;s Breath wins Miles Franklin Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toni Whitmont</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to Tim Winton who last night picked up the Miles Franklin Award for the fourth time for his novel Breath. &#8220;I&#8217;m stoked, of course, but also mindful that there are terrific writers who will be feeling pretty stiff tonight, because their books are more than good enough to have won,&#8221; said Winton. &#8220;To some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;blog=7573015&amp;post=216&amp;subd=booktopiabooks&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 10:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toni Whitmont</dc:creator>
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