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Prince Caspian - the book
19/05/08 | Warren Bird
What’s immediately obvious is that Prince Caspian does not have the overt gospel parallels that highlight The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Judging from secular reviews I’ve surveyed, this makes Prince Caspian more palatable to a wider audience.
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Inside the Mind of Gideon Rayburn
06/03/07 | Peter Denham
The cover gushes that “Being inside Gideon’s mind is like reading the diary of a guy you have a huge crush…
The cover gushes that “Being inside Gideon’s mind is like reading the diary of a guy you have a huge crush…
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The Skin Gods
21/02/07 | Craig Schwarze
A serial killer is haunting the streets of Philadelphia. He is brutally creative, modelling his crimes after famous…
A serial killer is haunting the streets of Philadelphia. He is brutally creative, modelling his crimes after famous…
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Next
06/02/07 | Craig Schwarze
Michael Crichton achieved world-wide fame in 1990 with Jurassic Park. Crichton returns to the biological…
Michael Crichton achieved world-wide fame in 1990 with Jurassic Park. Crichton returns to the biological…
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Speaking to the Heart
16/01/07 | Haydn Sennitt
High profile Catholic nun Sister Wendy Beckett has published an anthology of classic poems which she claims as…
High profile Catholic nun Sister Wendy Beckett has published an anthology of classic poems which she claims as…
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The Inheritance of Loss
09/01/07 | Stephen Liggins
Kiran Desai successfully weaves together the microcosm with the macrocosm in the 2006 Booker Prize-winning novel…
Kiran Desai successfully weaves together the microcosm with the macrocosm in the 2006 Booker Prize-winning novel…
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Eragon & Eldest
20/12/06 | Mark Hadley
It’s easy to see why Eragon, has become a runaway success for emerging writer Christopher Paolini. But behind the adventure is a serious swipe…
It’s easy to see why Eragon, has become a runaway success for emerging writer Christopher Paolini. But behind the adventure is a serious swipe…
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Underground
01/11/06 | Guest Columnist
It is 2011 and Australia has been transformed by the war on terror. This is the future imagined by Andrew McGahan in his new book, Underground.…
It is 2011 and Australia has been transformed by the war on terror. This is the future imagined by Andrew McGahan in his new book, Underground.…
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The Resurrectionist
02/05/06 | Sarah Barnett
The Resurrectionist is James Bradley’s long awaited third novel. This gothic-style drama takes the reader into the gruesome and seedy world of…
The Resurrectionist is James Bradley’s long awaited third novel. This gothic-style drama takes the reader into the gruesome and seedy world of…
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Grace
22/02/06 | Sarah Barnett
The novels of Robert Drewe are peopled by men and women ill at ease with their environs. His characters are often searching for or escaping from something.…
The novels of Robert Drewe are peopled by men and women ill at ease with their environs. His characters are often searching for or escaping from something.…
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No Country For Old Men
07/02/06 | Tim Watson
In essence, McCarthy writes to explore the human condition, and it is on this exploration that all his works turn. From Blood Meridian, through…
In essence, McCarthy writes to explore the human condition, and it is on this exploration that all his works turn. From Blood Meridian, through…
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The Penultimate Peril
06/01/06 | Greg Clarke
Dear readers, unless you have enjoyed the last 11 of Lemony Snicket’s books you should probably just stop reading now. As we are warned every time we…
Dear readers, unless you have enjoyed the last 11 of Lemony Snicket’s books you should probably just stop reading now. As we are warned every time we…
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The Sea
02/11/05 | Nicole Underwood
Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Award, The Sea is a beautifully crafted work, a pleasure to read and fulfilling to reflect upon.
Winner of the 2005 Man Booker Award, The Sea is a beautifully crafted work, a pleasure to read and fulfilling to reflect upon.
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The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
12/10/05 | Ben Underwood
Kurt Vonnegut said that there is only one story – man falls in hole, man gets out of hole. At the beginning of Umberto Eco’s new novel a man awakes…
Kurt Vonnegut said that there is only one story – man falls in hole, man gets out of hole. At the beginning of Umberto Eco’s new novel a man awakes…
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Zorro
28/09/05 | Lea Carswell
Diego de la Vega, the boy who came to be known by his alter ego, Zorro, started wearing a mask to conceal the fact that he had big ears. This delicious…
Diego de la Vega, the boy who came to be known by his alter ego, Zorro, started wearing a mask to conceal the fact that he had big ears. This delicious…
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A Long Way Down
31/08/05 | Nicole Underwood
In the UK, British novelist Nick Hornby is the long-reigning “King of lad lit”. In their own way each of his novels uses an accessible pop-culture…
In the UK, British novelist Nick Hornby is the long-reigning “King of lad lit”. In their own way each of his novels uses an accessible pop-culture…
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The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers
10/08/05 | Tim Watson
The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers is a slender volume, more an elegy or a poem than a novel. It captures the essence of a soldier’s life in and around…
The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers is a slender volume, more an elegy or a poem than a novel. It captures the essence of a soldier’s life in and around…
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Hormones, horcruxes and the Half-Blood Prince
08/08/05 | Greg Clarke
The Harry Potter series has two enduring interests: the battle between good and evil, and the education of young Harry. What is going to happen,…
The Harry Potter series has two enduring interests: the battle between good and evil, and the education of young Harry. What is going to happen,…
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
01/08/05 | Sarah Barnett
The coexistence of predestination and freewill is a difficult concept and finds little expression in fiction, yet intriguingly it forms a key part of the…
The coexistence of predestination and freewill is a difficult concept and finds little expression in fiction, yet intriguingly it forms a key part of the…
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