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Pitcairn: Paradise Lost

04/09/08 | Alison Watts
As the book Pitcairn: Paradise Lost - Uncovering the dark secrets of a South Pacific fantasy paradise records, beginning in 2000, police descended on the British colony on Pitcairn to investigate disturbing reports of rape. It made news around the world.

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Bomber Boys

05/11/07 | Peter Kirsop
This book looks at the many aircrew who made up RAF Bomber command in World War Two, the many Germans who as aircrew,…

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Master Of The Books

29/10/07 | Lisa Hall
Is it possible to deceive when telling the truth? This was an intriguing question raised by James Moloney in his…

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Baby-Proofing Your Marriage

22/10/07 | Mark Tough
As a father of 3 kids, and with a 4th on the way, I thought that it would be a good idea for me to have a look…

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The Lost

15/10/07 | David McKay
The Lost tells of how he investigated the history of his family by travelling back to Bolechow in Poland,…

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Walking the Camino

08/10/07 | Elly Byrne
This is a book not to be hurried through. It is not a murder mystery to be rushed through to the end. It is not…

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The Atheist Manifesto

01/10/07 | Stephen Bell
It seems that in recent times that some atheists have become more and more ‘evangelistic’, in the sense of…

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By Hook or by Crook

24/09/07 | Chris Little
Here’s your experiment. You travel towards a new planet knowing that, of the two races, one is friendly towards…

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Everyman

17/09/07 | Craig Schwarze
Philip Roth is considered by some to be the finest American novelist of the last 25 years. In his latest book,…

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The Lucifer Effect

10/09/07 | Alan Dungey
In The Lucifer Effect Zimbardo assembles disturbing evidence that any one of us, if subjected to the right…

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Kevin Rudd: An Unauthorised Political Biography

03/09/07 | Karin Sowada
There is something about Kevin Rudd’s ascendancy to the Labor leadership that resembles that famous scene from…

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The Secret

27/08/07 | Louise Cummins
With The Secret claiming to hold the key to our happiness (as well as holding the key to finding the perfect…

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He’ll Be Ok

20/08/07 | Heather Smith
He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men takes us to the heart of how teenage boys think. It’s…

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Amazing Grace

13/08/07 | Brett Hall
I must confess that until reading Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery,…

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The Jesus Family Tomb

06/08/07 | Richard Humphrey
Part Indiana Jones, part The Da Vinci Code, and part Discovery Channel with a bit of CSI and…

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Jesus for the Non-Religious

30/07/07 | Mark Thompson
Jack Spong is back. Once again he is visiting Australia to promote a new book. This one is called Jesus for…

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Jesus for the Non-Religious 2

30/07/07 | John Dickson
Spong paints a portrait of a Jesus who overturned the barriers of race, creed and sexuality in order “to free…

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

30/07/07 | Sarah Barnett
In her wildly successful “children’s” series JK Rowling has constructed a narrative that asks us to consider…

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Curious Obsessions

25/07/07 | Alan Dungey
Ideas that were once widely credited but that we now find absurd or horrifying are a limitless source of human…

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