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March Books

Saramago has returned with his taste for satire as sharp as ever, his new book starts with the simplest of questions, “What would happen if one day no-one died?” and then each day after that the same thing happened, what would happen to society? Reading the text you can see what obvious joy the writer was [...]

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On The Beach 3

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Sex-bomb

Despite being Kirribilli’s local sex-god, with women throwing themselves at my feet wherever I go and a strict “treat-em mean, keep-em keen” attitude to fit with my debonair devil-may-care air there is a softer side to me, I have to admit that there are times when I’d be the only unaccompanied male in the audience of [...]

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On the Beach 2

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On the Beach

It took us an hour hiking through the forest in the sweltering heat to get to the beach, we’d been hoping to see some turtles but they weren’t home. Instead we got a beautiful white beach all to ourselves….
Naturally when you have a beautiful beach all to yourself the first thing you do is take [...]

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And then what?

Books can suck you in and bring you highs no drug can reach and when you come down, the addiction sets in.
When I was poor and penniless in Barcelona, choosing whether I wanted to pay the rent or to eat each week, I could always find a few pesetas to buy a book. When I [...]

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Dusty Rafters

Procrastination is an art form, it’s what keeps attics a jumbled mess for many a year. Memories piled upon each other weighed down by the dust of neglect. Discoveries are made in the midst of dusty air and coughing fits. In Umberto Eco’s “The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana” the protagonist has lost his memory [...]

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Rendez-vous

Sometimes it can be tricky arranging meetings by text, it all started simply enough:
“Hey, must catch movie and coffee – Thur or Wed perhaps…”
I couldn’t do Wednesday or Thursday so I suggested Friday instead.
“Maybe heading to the south west at weekend – maybe friday but have to be 6pm show, hows about In Bruges in [...]

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On The Shelves

My mind’s all a flutter these days, a many-coloured butterfly, it flits from topic to topic, from book to book, never resting anywhere for long, I want to be captured and enthralled yet I don’t want anything too deep so what’s caught my interest most has been two books I picked up in New York. [...]

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