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The Ghosts of Roebuck Bay by Ian W. Shaw – Extract

Chapter 1 The Port of Pearls By the 1940s, Broome had become a nondescript town on a lonely coast, falling into apathy and sunbleached of its colour and rapidly losing traces of its past. – John...

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The Art of Belonging by Hugh Mackay – Extract

Community magic The Southwood Community Association’s executive committee is in session, with Councillor Dom Fin in the chair. This used to be called the Southwood Progress Association, until a...

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My Bon Scott by Irene Thornton – Extract

PROLOGUE I met a prominent politician a few years ago. At least, I tried to meet him. He was a friend of my friend Andrea, an independent senator who fought for ordinary working people, and I really...

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Map of Heaven by Doctor Eben Alexander – Extract

Imagine a young couple at their wedding. The ceremony is over, and everyone is crowding around on the church steps for a photo. But the couple, at this particular moment, doesn’t notice them. They’re...

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Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History by Rhonda K. Garelick –...

I dressed the universe. — CoCo Chanel, 1947 What is Chanel? what every woman is wearing without knowing it. —l’ExprEss magazine, 1956 Corporate headquarters for the House of Chanel occupies an...

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Gallipoli by Les Carlyon – Extract

The earth abideth forever Spring is coming to the Gallipoli Peninsula, so surely there is a pulse to it. The shepherd bends down, cups his hand under a new lamb, all clanging heart and spongy ribs, and...

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The Great War by Les Carlyon – Extract

Here dead lie we because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young. - A. E. Housman...

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Silk Road by Eileen Ormsby – Extract

A Word from the Dread Pirate Roberts Greetings and welcome to Silk Road! I know you can’t wait to get to the good stuff, but please take a moment to read this message. It’s been written to help keep...

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House of Karls by Dr Karl Kruszelnicki – Extract

PALEOLITHIC DIET Today there are many diets available to anybody wanting to lose some weight – some might say too many. One current favourite is the so-called “Paleolithic Diet”. In a nutshell, it...

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Great White by James Woodford – Extract

PREFACE In May 2010, 250 kilometres offshore from the Queensland city of Mackay on the outside of the Great Barrier Reef, at a reef system known as the Swains, I was diving with a team of researchers...

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