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My #reading April 2016

Posted by | Published on April 23, 2016

Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in […] 

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The Road to Serfdom & Capital in the 21st Century

Posted by | Published on May 21, 2014

Hugh Mackay, in a recent article about the 2014 federal budget,  asks Australians to consider: is this the Australia we really want to be? To answer […] 

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*Originally published in George Orwell Studies There are few 20th century writers as collectable as George Orwell. Rare book auctions regularly fetch extraordinary prices, especially for his works published in the 1930s. […] 

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Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in a daze, wondering if the […] 

January 2015: My Reading  →

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It is not a New Year’s resolution but I intend to write one blog post a month about what I’ve been reading. Usually I write a roundup of books enjoyed […] 

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