At this time of year, when everyone is looking at the best books of the year, what about the worst?
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With re-runs of re-runs on one channel, rejects from the US on another and sport or Jim Carey movies on every other channel the best thing about TV over the holiday period is that it forces us to open a good book. That is, if you have a good book to read… Last year I [...]
Filed under: Children's Fiction, Crime/Thriller, Fiction, Literature, Young Adult | Tagged: Ben Elton, Dawn French, Jeremy Clarkson, Jodi Picoult, Matthew Reilly | Leave a Comment »
No Fear Shakespeare – on one page we find Shakespeare’s Gobbledygook, while on the next page we find the Gobbledygook translated into Plain English.
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Jack Reacher will calm the savage suburban beast
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We had a huge number of orders yesterda – so many thanks to the (nearly one thousand) people all over Australia who voted with their wallets to support Indigenous Literacy Day.
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