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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I have just read and thoroughly enjoyed</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">the third book by <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?category=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&sort=&language.id=1&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Carrie+Tiffany&title=&authorName=Carrie+Tiffany&description=&isbn=" target="_blank">Carrie Tiffany</a></b> who is a most original Australian writer. This latest one is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/exploded-view-book-9781925773415.do" target="_blank">Exploded View</a></b>, by which is meant the sort of diagrams you might find in a car manual. It all ties in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">The story is told in the voice of an adolescent girl who has not spoken for many weeks. Most of the time the family is securely placed in a car on a long drive, perhaps to Perth. The narrator is very imaginative and makes many observant and amusing remarks in her head but there is an atmosphere of fear. Something bad is happening and bit by bit it becomes clear.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I recommend all three of her books</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> which also include <b>Mateship with Birds</b> (which was the winner of the first <i>Stella Prize</i> in 2013 and also shortlisted for the <i>Miles Franklin Literary Award</i> in the same year) and <b>Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living</b>, her debut which also took out a slew of awards and shortlistings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Carrie Tiffany recently appeared at the 2019 <i>Sydney Writers’ Festival</i> and I made sure I got a ticket for that session.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I’ve also had a good time reading an exciting thriller</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">written by <b>Catherine Steadman</b> called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/something-in-the-water-the-gripping-reese-witherspoon-book-club-pick.do" target="_blank">Something in the Water</a></b>. It begins with the narrator digging a grave for her husband in the Norfolk Woods. How did this come about? Short sharp sentences. All very exciting. The author is also an actress who appeared in <i>Downton Abbey</i>, as Mabel Lane Fox (I think she was a rival to Lady Mary in the marriage stakes in the later episodes).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I’ve just eagerly read the final book</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> in <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/productSearch.do?authorName=%22Steven%20Carroll%22&txtQuery=%22Steven%20Carroll%22&searchBy=author" target="_blank">Steven Carroll</a></b>’s wonderful <i><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?category=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&sort=&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Glenroy&title=&authorName=&description=&isbn=&series=Glenroy&company=&publicationdate=Click+here+to+select+publication+date+range&name=&priceRange=&bindFormat=&language.id=1" target="_blank">Glenroy</a></i> series. This one is set in 1917 Melbourne when the city is in a ferment of discussion about whether to accept conscription or not. The central character is Maryanne, Michael’s grandmother. She is almost forty, pregnant and unmarried. A stalwart character who is determined to keep her child (who becomes Vic) and not give him up to the Church as expected. It is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-year-of-the-beast-book-9781460757697.do" target="_blank">The Year of the Beast</a></b> and although sixth in the series it is a prequel. You have yet to meet engine-driver Vic, wife Rita and their son Michael, their neighbours and workmates, living in a newly emerging suburb on the outskirts of Melbourne. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Steven Carroll’s style is quite addictive.</b><b> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;">Short rhythmic sentences, graceful and tender prose. If you haven’t met these life-like characters yet you have a treat in store. <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-art-of-the-engine-driver-book-9780732297466.do" target="_blank">The Art of the Engine Driver</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-gift-of-speed-book-9780732288990.do" target="_blank">The Gift of Speed</a></b>, should be read first, in my opinion, while the other titles can be read in any order. They are <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-time-we-have-taken-book-9780732278373.do" target="_blank">The Time We Have Taken</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/forever-young-book-9781460752579.do" target="_blank">Forever Young</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/spirit-of-progess.do" target="_blank">Spirit of Progress</a></b>. Steven is a <i><b>Miles Franklin Award</b></i> winner as well as several other big prizes. He is Australia’s <b>John Updike</b> and I think these books are marvellous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Carroll has written another series</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">all about <b>T.S.Eliot</b>. Those titles are <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-lost-life-a-novel-book-9780732284817.do" target="_blank">The Lost Life</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/world-of-other-people.do" target="_blank">A World of Other People</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/a-new-england-affair-book-9781460751152.do" target="_blank">A New England Affair</a></b>. Take your pick! Enjoyment guaranteed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Steven spoke at Abbey's</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> in 2011 on the writing of Spirit of Progress. Excerpts:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Prize winning Poet, Barry Hill wrote a glowing report</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">in the <i>Australian Review</i> last Saturday for <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-poems-volume-3-uncollected-poems-and-early-versions.do" target="_blank">The Poems Vol.III in the Cambridge Edition of The Works of D. H. Lawrence</a></b>, which includes Uncollected Poems and Early Versions. It is not cheap, although we have sold some already. He says "Dig into Lawrence dear readers. Fork out for this book. It is all process, and contemporary".</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I recently went to a good talk</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> in the City of Sydney Library housed in our wonderful Customs House at Circular Quay. It was put on by the Jessie Street National Women’s Library which is happily housed in Harris Street, Ultimo. The Jessie Street Library, named in honour of Lady Street, feminist and campaigner for peace and human rights, part of the famous Street family dynasty, is thirty years old now. If you would like to make use of their material or offer yourself as a volunteer please consult their website: <a href="http://www.nationalwomenslibrary.org.au/" target="_blank">www.nationalwomenslibrary.org.au</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Let me recommend to you</b> two fine, sane and sensible female writers, </span><span style="font-size: large;">from the next generation. <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/productSearch.do?authorName=%22Mandy%20Sayer%22&txtQuery=%22Mandy%20Sayer%22&searchBy=author" target="_blank">Mandy Sayer</a></b>'s recent book, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/misfits-and-me-collected-non-fiction.do" target="_blank">Misfits & Me</a></b>, is a collection of long essays about unusual people. Mandy’s own unusual childhood is recalled in <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/dreamtime-alice-book-9781743314708.do" target="_blank">Dreamtime Alice</a></b>, which won the <i>National Biography Award</i>, describing her travels in America tap-dancing in the street while her jazz drummer father provided the backdrop. Last year she published <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/australian-gypsies-their-secret-history.do" target="_blank">Australian Gypsies: <i>Their Secret History</i></a></b>, which is very well received. She is married to writer and playwright <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?category=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&sort=&language.id=1&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Louis+Nowra&title=&authorName=Louis+Nowra&description=&isbn=" target="_blank">Louis Nowra</a></b> and they live in Kings Cross, opposite each other on the same road, happily apart and with their dogs Basil and Coco.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The other writer</b> I want to suggest is <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/productSearch.do?authorName=%22Alice%20Pung%22&txtQuery=%22Alice%20Pung%22&searchBy=author" target="_blank">Alice Pung</a></b>, </span><span style="font-size: large;">the child of Chinese parents who escaped from Kampuchea to lead an unusual and entrepreneurial life in Australia. Alice has written a first memoir called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/unpolished-gem-book-9781863951586.do" target="_blank">Unpolished Gem</a></b> as well as <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/her-fathers-daughter-book-9781863955904.do" target="_blank">Her Father’s Daughter</a></b> plus a novel, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/laurinda-pung-9781863956925.do" target="_blank">Laurinda</a></b>, a young adult novel about attending a girls’ high school, as well as <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/john-marsden-writers-on-writers.do" target="_blank">On John Marsden</a></b>. No doubt because of the last title she has ended up in <i>Literary Criticism</i> on Abbey’s shelves so you may well not find her at first. But she has a fascinating story to tell and tells it very well. Her latest book is <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/close-to-home-selected-writings.do" target="_blank">Close to Home: <i>Selected Writings</i></a></b> where she muses on various episodes in the life of refugees.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Anne Summers’ new memoir, <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/unfettered-and-alive-a-memoir.do" target="_blank">Unfettered and Alive</a>, </b></span><span style="font-size: large;">is an exciting memoir of a principled life. Proud Feminist, journalist, bureaucrat, media mogul and Chairman of the International Board of Greenpeace are just some of her adventures. Anne was head of the Office of the Status of Women in the Hawke Government and was later invited to be a policy advisor for Paul Keating, to encourage the votes of women.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Some thrilling stories of meeting the rich and famous </b></span><span style="font-size: large;">in New York, or lunching in the White House with Barbara Bush, not least her Management Buy Out, with Sandra Yates in 1987, of the <i>Ms</i> and <i>Sassy</i> magazines. They were only the second women in America to achieve a Management Buy Out but soon faced impossible difficulties when a consumer boycott against <i>Sassy</i> magazine became very effective and most of the big advertisers cancelled their bookings. Ironically the offending material had come from <i>Dolly</i> magazine in Australia where it had raised no problems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>With Australia Day for 2019 just behind us</b>, </span><span style="font-size: large;">there is a novel with the interesting title, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/this-imaginary-feeling-of-being-australian.do" target="_blank">This Imaginary Feeling of Being Australian</a></b>. Written by <b>Michael Nicholson</b>, younger brother of the cartoonist on <i>The Australian</i>, this is a very amusing satire in which someone has ordered 150 submarines for the Government instead of 15! Australia has become a Naval Power, the Greens are swept into Government and Bob Brown is President.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Are you enjoying the TV serial of <b>Louisa May Alcott</b>’s <b><i><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?catFilter=&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=little+women%2C+alcott&category=&title=little+women&name=&authorName=alcott&description=&isbn=&company=&language.id=1&bindFormat=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&stock=1&sort=&series=" target="_blank">Little Women</a></i></b>? </span><span style="font-size: large;">I think it is lovely and went straight to the computer to make certain Abbey’s had stock. I found there were twelve different editions varying from inexpensive paperback through the classics to a large, illustrated hardback. Only at Abbey’s! Although it was written in 1857, the hopes and values in <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?catFilter=&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=little+women%2C+alcott&category=&title=little+women&name=&authorName=alcott&description=&isbn=&company=&language.id=1&bindFormat=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&stock=1&sort=&series=" target="_blank">Little Women</a></b> are still valid today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I have already recommended to you </b></span><span style="font-size: large;">the books written by newish Australian writer <b>Jock Serong</b>. First he wrote two thrillers called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/quota-book-9781925355055.do" target="_blank">Quota</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-rules-of-backyard-cricket-book-9781925498707.do" target="_blank">The Rules of Backyard Cricket</a></b> and then <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/on-the-java-ridge-book-9781925603804.do" target="_blank">On the Java Ridge</a></b>, another thriller about asylum seekers and now he offers a terrific piece of historical fiction. It is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/preservation-book-9781925773125.do" target="_blank">Preservation</a></b> and is based on the wreck of the <i>Sydney Cove</i> which happened at the entrance to Bass Street in 1797.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>The survivors from this wreck </b></span><span style="font-size: large;">set off in a longboat to get help from Sydney but they were again shipwrecked. The survivors from this second shipwreck, including some lascars, then set off to walk 300 miles to Sydney. Only three people reached Sydney. One of these people published a diary of the trek which was published in a newspaper at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Biologist <b>James Watson</b>, 1962 <i>Nobel Prize</i> co-winner with <b>Francis Crick</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">for discovering the double-helix form of DNA has been in trouble again over his views about racial intelligence. You can find his famous story about the decoding of DNA on the shelves at Abbey’s. It is called <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/double-helix-book-9780753828434.do" target="_blank"><b>Double-Helix: <i>A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA</i></b></a>. Full of gossip and rivalry, this was a best seller for us at the time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There was talk </span><span style="font-size: large;">that they had used X-Ray photographs done by Rosalind Franklin, without her permission, and there was a book about this, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/rosalind-franklin-the-dark-lady-of-dna-book-9780006552116.do" target="_blank">Rosalind Franklin: <i>The Dark Lady of DNA</i></a></b>. Her family were involved with the firm of Routledge and Kegan Paul and I recall going to lunch with her brother who had come to Sydney to promote their books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone. </b></span><span style="font-size: large;">I hope all goes well for you and that Abbey’s will see another Fifty Years contributing to the culture in Sydney.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Consider this new big book on an everlasting topic. </b></span><span style="font-size: large;">It is <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/rome-eternal-city.do" target="_blank">Rome: <i>Eternal City</i></a></b> by <b>Ferdinand Addis</b> who studied Classics at Oxford and was a film-maker and journalist before he decided to be a historian. He chooses significant moments in Rome’s 3000 years of history and links these with a lively narrative so that he presents a history of Rome for a new generation of readers. When I tell you that the final scene is the opening of Fellini’s movie <i>La Dolce Vita</i> in1960 you will see he writes about both High Art and Low Life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Put aside (for now) <b>Edward Gibbons</b>’ </span><span style="font-size: large;">famous <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?catFilter=&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Decline+and+Fall+of+the+Roman+Empire&category=&title=Decline+and+Fall+of+the+Roman+Empire&name=&authorName=&description=&isbn=&company=&language.id=1&bindFormat=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&stock=1&sort=&series=" target="_blank">Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire</a>,</b> available in <i>Penguin Classics</i> in various volumes or the 1 volume Abridgement. Addis' book is an easier companion if you are planning to visit the exhibition <i><b>Rome and Empire</b></i> in Canberra at the National Museum, which is on until 3rd February 2019. There is also an audio version of the Gibbon abridgement of Decline and Fall read by David Timson.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I think there are still fans around for the <b>George Johnston</b> and <b>Charmian Clift</b> saga. </span><span style="font-size: large;">They will like a new book by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell. It is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/half-the-perfect-world-9781925523096.do" target="_blank">Half the Perfect World: <i>Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964</i></a></b>. Enjoy - and you can still buy a copy of <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/my-brother-jack-book-9780732297046.do" target="_blank">My Brother Jack</a></b> or Charmian Clift’s <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/mermaid-singing-peel-me-a-lotus.do" target="_blank"><b>Mermaids Singing</b> & <b>Peel Me a Lotus</b></a> at Abbey’s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>I hope you are able to visit the shop</b>,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">which is near the Town Hall, during the holidays. There are so many interesting books for you to choose from, not just the latest best sellers. Remember, if you are looking at Abbey’s lively database online, that you can choose to show only those books currently in stock if you click down the side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Upstairs on the First Floor, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://bit.ly/LanguageBooks" target="_blank">Language Book Centre</a></b> has DVD’s and both fiction and non-fiction in other languages as well as the usual 'teach yourself' text books. <b><a href="http://bit.ly/GALAXYbooks" target="_blank">GALAXY Bookshop</a></b>, also upstairs has an amazing array of Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror and Paranormal Romance. They also have lots of puzzles, games, cards and POP! figurines. Ask a bookseller for advice if you are not a Sci-Fi reader yourself. There’s a lift in the foyer if you want to avoid the stairs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Can you imagine your life</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>without the pleasure of being able to read? Without being able to delve into a book and take in stories, ideas and knowledge outside of your own experience?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">"It’s hard to believe but before we worked with the ILF, books were non-existent in the region. Often, the only translated text available is the Ngaanyatjarra Bible – and families aren’t necessarily going to sit down with their children and read that to develop pre-literacy skills. Without the support of the ILF we wouldn’t be able to translate books or even have the books in our classroom or children’s homes." <b>Kiara Jones</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kiara is the Early Learning Educator at Blackstone and Jameson Communities in the Ngaanyatjarraku Shire in Western Australia. These communities are extremely remote, approximately 900 kilometres from Alice Springs and about 1,500 kilometres from Perth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>This Christmas, with your help, we aim to donate $5,000 to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Rick Morton</b>, journalist on <i>The Australian</i>, </span><span style="font-size: large;">has written a searing autobiography about his childhood on an enormous pastoral station in far-west Queensland. Not easy reading but leavened by some very amusing insights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">His violent and tyrannical grandfather passed on his genes throughout the family. Morton now says he is a “middle-class man in a poor boy’s body”. If you want to understand what it is like to be poor in this country read this. It is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/one-hundred-years-of-dirt.do" target="_blank">One Hundred Years of Dirt</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">It is 250 years since Captain Cook set sail from England </span><span style="font-size: large;">to enter the Pacific. There is a book which is a companion piece to a TV programme on Foxtel I think. It is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/uncharted-with-sam-neill.do" target="_blank">The Pacific in the Wake of Captain Cook</a></b> with <b>Sam Neill</b> and written by <b>Meaghan Wilson Anastasios</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There is a new book from <b>Clare Wright</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">who wrote <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?catFilter=&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Forgotten+Rebels%2C+Wright&category=&title=Forgotten+Rebels&name=&authorName=Wright&description=&isbn=&company=&language.id=1&bindFormat=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&stock=1&sort=&series=" target="_blank">The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka</a></b> about the women involved in that famous episode. This new, much larger, book is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/you-daughters-of-freedom-the-australians-who-won-the-vote-and-inspired-the-world.do" target="_blank">You Daughters of Freedom: <i>The Australians Who Won The Vote and Inspired the World</i></a></b>. Clare points out that World War I overshadowed the fame of Australia as a progressive reformist nation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This new book is about the well-travelled activists such as Vida Goldstein, Nellie Martel, Dora Montefiore, Muriel Matters and Dora Meeson-Coates (who painted the famed banner carried in the British Suffragettes’ enormous marches in 1908 and 1911). These Australian women were amongst the leaders in the International movement for votes for women.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Robyn Williams</b>, of ABC Radio's <i>The Science Show</i> </span><span style="font-size: large;">fame, has just written his autobiography and given it the title <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/turmoil-book-9781742235776.do" target="_blank">Turmoil: Letters from the Brink</a></b>. Like many of us in the later stages of interesting lives he wonders where the world is heading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many of his tales fall into line with the recent upheaval at ABC where management by email or cartoon seemed to have gained the upperhand. He enthusiastically sings the praises of young scientists in Australia and thinks he has had a very lucky life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I hope you pick up a copy of <a href="https://bit.ly/AbbeysXmas" target="_blank">Abbey’s Christmas catalogue</a> for 2018 </span><span style="font-size: large;">which is in-store now. Inside the front cover there is a nice photograph of Abbey’s when we were in the Queen Victoria Building in George Street. Do you remember that comfortable shop? I think we have customers today who came along there with their parents. That was <i><b>fifty years ago!</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve been reading some really good novels, </span><span style="font-size: large;">not the latest releases, most especially <b>Ruth Park</b>’s <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-harp-in-the-south-book-9780143202752.do" target="_blank">The Harp in the South</a></b>. What a great writer! You can get Harp in the South at a good price as a <i>Popular Penguin</i>, but the typeface is old fashioned or you can choose <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-harp-in-the-south-novels.do" target="_blank">The Harp In the South Novels</a></b> which includes <b>Missus</b>, <b>Harp in the South</b> and <b>Poor Man’s Orange</b>. I’m sure if you have been to the Sydney Theatre Company production you will want to fill it all in. Pure enjoyment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I was also given <b>Steven Carroll</b>’s latest version</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">of <b>T.S.Eliot</b>’s private life in <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/a-new-england-affair-book-9781460751152.do" target="_blank">A New England Affair</a></b>. Steven has made two previous imaginings in <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-lost-life-a-novel-book-9780732284817.do" target="_blank">The Lost Life</a></b> or in <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/world-of-other-people.do" target="_blank">A World of Other People</a></b>. All wonderful books. </span><span style="font-size: large;">This latest one is so very sad it was hard to read.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Finally I have also enjoyed an expanded edition, of <b>Anthony Hill</b>’s <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/captain-cooks-apprentice-book-9780143789505.do" target="_blank">Captain Cook’s Apprentice</a></b>.</span> <span style="font-size: large;">It is 250 years since Cook’s momentous voyage into the Pacific , so important to us, so it is a good time to publish the expanded edition of this ripping novel. Isaac Manley, one of the servant boys on board was promoted to Midshipman and later became an Admiral so there will be lots to learn for anyone dreaming of a life at sea – both good and bad.</span><br />
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Abbey's Bookshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10916116049312673434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937457690333168531.post-29089025549485308442018-09-06T11:30:00.000+10:002018-09-06T11:30:29.730+10:00Notes from Eve Abbey • September 2018<style>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I am a great fan of the wonderful illustrated books of <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/productSearch.do?authorName=%22Shaun+Tan%22&txtQuery=%22Shaun+Tan%22&stock=1" target="_blank">Shaun Tan</a></b>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">His latest is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/cicada-book-9780734418630.do" target="_blank">Cicada</a></b>, a simple story everyone can understand. It will appeal especially to anyone feeling under-appreciated, but every reader will enjoy it!</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I see some excellent reviews for the third volume of <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/productSearch.do?authorName=%22Philip+Dwyer%22&txtQuery=%22Philip+Dwyer%22&stock=1" target="_blank">Philip Dwyer</a></b>’s biography of Napoleon.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> It is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/napoleon-passion-death-and-resurrection-1815-1840-book-9781408891759.do" target="_blank">Napoleon: <i>Passion, Death and Resurrection</i></a></b> and is very readable. If you haven’t already read <b>Anne Whitehead</b>’s <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/betsy-and-the-emperor-the-true-story-of-napoleon-a-pretty-girl-a-regency-rake-and-an-australian-colonial-misadventure.do" target="_blank">Betsy and the Emperor: <i>The True Story of Napoleon, a Pretty Girl, a Regency Rake and a Colonial Australian Misadventure</i></a></b>, add this to your purchase as well. A really good story about Napoleon’s time on St Helena.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?txtQuery=V+S+Naipaul&authorName=V+S+Naipaul&language.id=1" target="_blank">V S Naipaul</a></b>, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> died in August. He was awarded the <b><i>Nobel Prize for Literature</i></b> in 2001, as well as the 1971 <i><b>Booker Prize</b></i> for <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/in-a-free-state-a-novel-with-two-supporting-narratives.do" target="_blank">In a Free State</a></b>, which was also nominated for the recent <i><b>Golden Man Booker</b></i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you find some recent fiction dissatisfying, try one of his other novels such as </span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-enigma-of-arrival-a-novel-in-five-sections-book-9780330522861.do" target="_blank">The Enigma of Arrival</a></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> or </span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/a-house-for-mr-biswas-picador-classic.do" target="_blank">A House for Mr Biswas</a></span></b><span style="font-size: large;">. For a really perceptive view of India, look in Travel Literature for the views of this special Indian born in Trinidad. Three separate visits to India - </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">An Area of Darkness</span></i><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">A Wounded Civilisation</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> and </span><i><span style="font-size: large;">A Million Mutinies Now</span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> - are collected in one volume under the title </span><b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/india-an-area-of-darkness-a-wounded-civilization-a-million-mut.do" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">India</span></a></b>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I was especially pleased to hear the interview</span><span style="font-size: large;"> on ABC Radio’s <i><b>The Science Show</b></i> with scientific journalist Mark Lynas. His new book is called <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/seeds-of-science-why-we-got-it-so-wrong-on-gmos-book-9781472946997.do" target="_blank"><b>Seeds of Science: <i>Why We Got it So Wrong on GMOs</i></b></a>. Not before time. I used to worry about Plant Patent Rights.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Have you heard about a book by <b>Amor Towles</b> called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/a-gentleman-in-moscow-book-9780099558781.do" target="_blank">A Gentleman in Moscow</a></b>?</span><span style="font-size: large;"> This is one of those very stylish books which becomes a secret bestseller. Several people recommended it to me and so it goes on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just after the revolution, Count Alexander Rostov is declared by the Kremlin to be an unrepentant aristocrat and is sentenced to live for life in the Hotel Metropol. Not in his usual luxurious suite, but in an attic, a very tiny attic. But the count is an educated, erudite gentleman and is determined to live a life of purpose.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You will not want to read this quickly. You should take the time to appreciate the style, to reflect upon the adventures of the characters and to remember the historical events he mentions in passing, or the many literary references. You will pause before reading the next meaningful vignette. Terrific. It is called a 'fairy tale' and I suppose it is because all turns out well, but there are some anxious moments. Enjoy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">What would Australian crime writing be like if Peter Corris hadn't given us Cliff Hardy?</span><span style="font-size: large;"> If Peter Corris hadn't persisted for four years to get the first Cliff Hardy novel (The Dying Trade) published?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Over more than three decades and forty two Hardy novels later, the crime fiction scene in Australia has changed, but it would not perhaps be as strong as it is without the hard-bitten private investigator and his creator. Indeed, Corris was often described as the godfather of Australian crime, and when you think about it, there is no other person who could wear that description so aptly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Hardy is the quintessential larrikin,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> with a quick eye and a colourful turn of phrase. His method of solving crime was not straight-forward; often it seemed as if he was pouring petrol on a fire to force the perpetrators into giving themselves away. One of the pleasures in reading the novels he featured in, was not just the recognisable 'Australianess' but also the recognisable 'Sydney-ness.' Over the years the city and its society changed, but there was Cliff, with his cigarettes and booze and talent for attracting trouble, observing it all and reflecting back to the reader a gritty moll of a city with its corrupt and undeniable beauty.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Abbey's customers have always been loyal devotees of Hardy,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> and each new title was greeted with delight and anticipation - what was Hardy getting up to now? We have generally stocked an extensive range of Hardy novels, and they are consistent sellers - once discovered by a new reader, the vivid descriptions and twisty storylines prove addictive!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Vale Peter Corris; </span><span style="font-size: large;">your fans will mourn you but be forever grateful you turned your vast talents to creating such a marvellous character and in doing so, changing the landscape of Australian crime writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Former Manager at Abbey’s, Ann Leahy shared her anecdote of Peter:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>“We asked him to come to the opening of Hunter St Books in Newcastle and he came. The audience begged him to set a Cliff Hardy novel in Newcastle. He did. What a legend and a lovely man.”</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Peter was also a regular columnist for <a href="http://newtownreviewofbooks.com.au/" target="_blank">The Newtown Review of Books</a>, which Abbey's has a long association with, run by Peter's wife, Jean Bedford, and Linda Funnell. Everyone at Abbey's sends their well wishes for Jean and her family.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/dying-trade-cliff-hardy-1-9781921922176.do" target="_blank">The Dying Trade</a> (1980)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/white-meat-cliff-hardy-2-9781760113872.do" target="_blank">White Meat</a> (1981)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-marvellous-boy-cliff-hardy-3-9781760113889.do" target="_blank">The Marvellous Boy</a> (1982)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/empty-beach-cliff-hardy-4-9781741141801.do" target="_blank">The Empty Beach</a> (1983)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/heroin-annie-cliff-hardy-5-9780868613994.do" target="_blank">Heroin Annie: Cliff Hardy cases</a> (1984)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/make-me-rich-cliff-hardy-6-9781760110192.do" target="_blank">Make Me Rich</a> (1985)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-big-drop-cliff-hardy-7-9781760113902.do" target="_blank">The Big Drop: Cliff Hardy cases</a> (1985)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-greenwich-apartments-cliff-hardy-8-9780048200303.do" target="_blank">The Greenwich Apartments</a> (1986)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/deal-me-out-cliff-hardy-9-book-9780868619781.do" target="_blank">Deal Me Out</a> (1986)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-january-zone-cliff-hardy-10-book-9780042000503.do" target="_blank">The January Zone</a> (1987)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/man-in-the-shadows-cliff-hardy-11-9781760113896.do" target="_blank">Man in the Shadows: Cliff Hardy cases</a> (1988)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/ofear-cliff-hardy-12-9781760110123.do" target="_blank">O'Fear</a> (1990)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/wet-graves-cliff-hardy-13-9781760110130.do" target="_blank">Wet Graves</a> (1991)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/aftershock-cliff-hardy-14-9781760110147.do" target="_blank">Aftershock</a> (1992)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/beware-of-the-dog-cliff-hardy-15-9781760110154.do" target="_blank">Beware of the Dog</a> (1992)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/burn-and-other-stories-cliff-hardy-16-9781760110161.do" target="_blank">Burn: Cliff Hardy cases</a> (1993)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/matrimonial-causes-cliff-hardy-17-9781760110185.do" target="_blank">Matrimonial Causes</a> (1993)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/casino-cliff-hardy-18-9781760110208.do" target="_blank">Casino</a> (1994)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-washington-club-cliff-hardy-19-9781760110215.do" target="_blank">The Washington Club</a> (1997)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/forget-me-if-you-can-cliff-hardy-20-9781760110222.do" target="_blank">Forget Me if You Can: Cliff Hardy cases</a> (1997)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-reward-cliff-hardy-21-9781760110253.do" target="_blank">The Reward</a> (1997)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-black-prince-cliff-hardy-22-9781760110178.do" target="_blank">The Black Prince</a> (1998)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-other-side-of-sorrow-cliff-hardy-23-9781760110239.do" target="_blank">The Other Side of Sorrow</a> (1999)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/lugarno-cliff-hardy-24-9781760110246.do" target="_blank">Lugarno</a> (2001)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/salt-and-blood-cliff-hardy-25-9781760110260.do" target="_blank">Salt & Blood</a> (2002)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/masters-mates-cliff-hardy-26.do" target="_blank">Master's Mates</a> (2003)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/coast-road-cliff-hardy-27.do" target="_blank">The Coast Road</a> (2004)<span id="goog_1702486482"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_1702486483"></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/taking-care-of-business-cliff-hardy-28-book-9781741144192.do" target="_blank">Taking Care of Business: Cliff Hardy cases</a> (2004)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/saving-billie-cliff-hardy-29.do" target="_blank">Saving Bille</a> (2005)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/undertow-cliff-hardy-30.do" target="_blank">The Undertow</a> (2006)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/appeal-denied-cliff-hardy-31.do" target="_blank">Appeal Denied</a> (2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/big-score-cliff-hardy-32.do" target="_blank">The Big Score: Cliff Hardy cases</a> (2007)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/open-file-cliff-hardy-33.do" target="_blank">Open File</a> (2008)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/deep-water-cliff-hardy-34.do" target="_blank">Deep Water</a> (2009)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/torn-apart-cliff-hardy-35-9781742375366.do" target="_blank">Torn Apart</a> (2010)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/follow-the-money-cliff-hardy-36-9781742379326.do" target="_blank">Follow the Money</a> (2011)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/comeback-cliff-hardy-37-9781743311974.do" target="_blank">Comeback</a> (2012)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-dunbar-case-cliff-hardy-38-9781743317518.do" target="_blank">The Dunbar Case</a> (2013)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/silent-kill-cliff-hardy-39-9781760111274.do" target="_blank">Silent Kill</a> (2014)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/gun-control-cliff-hardy-40-book-9781760291068.do" target="_blank">Gun Control</a> (2015)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/that-empty-feeling-cliff-hardy-41-book-9781760294076.do" target="_blank">That Empty Feeling</a> (2015)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/win-lose-or-draw-cliff-hardy-42-book-9781760631000.do" target="_blank">Win, Lose or Draw</a> (2017)</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Plus the audiobooks are also great to listen to:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And in closing, you might like to read this entertaining and candid interview with Peter, on the <b><i>Pulp Curry</i></b> blog, titled:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.pulpcurry.com/2018/09/a-sit-down-with-the-godfather-an-interview-with-peter-corris/" target="_blank">A sit down with the Godfather: an interview with Peter Corris</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>What point did you think Cliff Hardy went from imitative to unique?</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>"The Empty Beach."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>And that was made into a movie.</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>"That’s the one. Ratshit movie. Terrible film. But the money enabled me to put a deposit on a house. My stand-up comedy line is that I much preferred the house to the film."</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I am very happy to tell you that Michael Ondaatje’s new book <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/warlight-book-9781787330726.do">Warlight</a></b> is wonderful.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">Full of fascinating characters and wandering off in many directions. The story seems to be a tale of secret service agents and secret wars. The sometimes unlikely narrative becomes a vehicle for Ondaatje’s lucid, sparkling writing. There is a rivalry in the book between the voice of the narrator and the voice of the author. Enjoy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">His 1992 novel, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-english-patient-bloomsbury-modern-classics.do">The English Patient</a></b>, has just been chosen for the Golden Man Booker - the best Booker Prize winner of the past fifty years. Disregard the fact that Salman Rushdie’s novel <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/midnights-children-book-9780099511892.do">Midnight’s Children</a></b> was removed from the running by one of the judges.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Long-time readers of my blog will remember that daughter Jane</span><span style="font-size: large;"> has been working on the Thai Burma border with the Karen Women’s Organisation for many years, 24 to be exact. There are many Karen people now living in Sydney and Perth and some country areas who will be interested in a romantic interpretation of their recent history. Charmaine Craig is the daughter of a Karen woman and an Anglo-Indian Jewish businessman who was closely involved in the setting up of the Karen Union. The book is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/miss-burma-book-9781611855012.do">Miss Burma</a></b> and her beautiful mother did indeed become Miss Burma. The book was longlisted for the American National Book Award for fiction. The Karen people are still struggling for independence from Burma.</span> <br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Another unusual book you will find in Asian History General</span><span style="font-size: large;"> is <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/air-battle-for-burma-allied-pilots-fight-for-supremacy.do">Air Battle for Burma: Allied Pilots’ Fight for Supremacy</a></b> by Bryn Evans, a British military history writer now living in Sydney. Historical accounts of the various battles in Burma during WWII have always taken second place, so it’s fitting that this book, taken from vivid personal accounts written by some of the pilots, is now available. Ex-airmen will also enjoy this.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Danielle Clode, a science writer from Victoria,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> seems to have made a leap from adventure to contemplation. Her most famous book is <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/voyages-to-the-south-seas-in-search-of-terres-australes-book-9780522855425.do">Voyages to the South Seas</a></b>, about French explorers searching for the mysterious land that was Australia, while other titles include <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/killers-in-eden-the-story-of-a-rare-partnership-between-men-and-whales.do">Killers in Eden: The Story of a Rare Partnership Between Man and Whales</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/in-the-footsteps-of-giants-australian-megafauna-in-the-pleistoceine.do">Prehistoric Giants: The Megafauna of Australia</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/prehistoric-marine-life-in-australias-inland-sea.do">Prehistoric Marine Life in Australia’s Inland Sea</a></b>. <br /><br />
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<br />Clode is now offering a beautifully produced biography of a forgotten 20th century Australian naturalist. It is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-wasp-and-the-orchid.do">The Wasp and the Orchid: The Remarkable Life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman</a></b>. This suburban housewife and prolific nature writer became famous by solving the mystery of orchid pollination, which had evaded Darwin. The book includes many examples of Coleman’s lyrical nature writing and will appeal to many people happy to immerse themselves in peaceful times.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I recently had a very cosy day inside,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> tucked up by the heater, reading <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/appointment-in-arezzo-my-life-with-muriel-spark.do">Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark</a></b> by <b>Alan Taylor</b>, a journalist and well-known literary figure in Scotland – deputy editor of The Scotsman, managing editor of Scotsman Publications and on all sorts of judging panels and committees. This is a terrific little book, 173 pages. If you’re one of the many people who loved Muriel Spark’s books, this is a charming introduction to some of the 22 books she published, now being reissued by Polygon Books to celebrate 100 years since her birth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Coming out between November 2017 and September 2018, these are small hardbacks at a very good price – about $22.99. Some are also available in paperback in Popular Penguins or Random Classics, so have a look around. I’ve been reminded of several I want to read, including <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-mandelbaum-gate-book-9781846974328.do">The Mandelbaum Gate</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-hothouse-by-the-east-river-book-9781846974366.do">The Hothouse by the East River</a></b>.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Everyone remembers <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-prime-of-miss-jean-brodie-book-9780241956779.do">The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie</a></b>,</span> <span style="font-size: large;">which had a famous entry to the world. For the first - and possibly last - time, the New Yorker Magazine devoted an entire issue to publish this comic and tragic story of the charismatic schoolmistress manipulating her students. This is the time when <b>Graham Greene</b> and <b>Evelyn Waugh</b> both declared their admiration of her writing. This sharp and unsentimental writer was both a critical and commercial success.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alan Taylor’s memories of their long friendship are based around visits to her home in Italy where she lived with Penelope Jardine, another Scot. He makes it very clear this was not a lesbian relationship, just a very helpful friendship. Polygon is of course a Scottish publisher. <b>Alexander McCall Smith</b> is another of their published authors.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now that Abbey’s is fifty years old, you may be interested to read some of our history in the booklet we published when we turned forty. Find <i><b>Forty Memories</b></i> at <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/abbeys/about.do" target="_blank">About Abbey’s</a></b> on our website.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The National Library of Australia in Canberra has a fascinating exhibition </span><span style="font-size: large;">on until July 28th. It is called <b><i>1968: Changing Times</i></b>. All about that exciting year when so many important things were happening throughout the world. And what else was happening in 1968? Well in Sydney, the first Abbey’s Bookshop opened at 115 Pitt Street. We’ve had all sorts of bookshops over the past 50 years. In fact, we’ve had 10 small bookshops including <i>City Lights Bookshop</i>, <i>Paddington Penguin Bookshop</i>, a <i>Penguin Bookshop</i> in Rowe Street, <i>Henry Lawson’s Bookshop</i> and <i>Bargain Bookshop</i>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Still here are <i>Abbey’s Bookshop</i>, <i>Language Book Centre</i> and <i>Galaxy Bookshop</i>, all now together on two floors at 131 York Street. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On the relevant birthdays, we gave customers 21%, 25% and 30% discount, but at forty years that got a bit difficult so we decided to publish a small book called <b style="font-style: italic;">Forty Memories. </b><i>(Ed. – And keep your eyes peeled for our '50% OFF!' specials throughout 2018)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If you were not a customer then and would like to indulge</span><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><span style="font-size: large;">in some bookshop nostalgia, you can find <i><b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/abbeys/about.do" target="_blank">Forty Memories</a></b></i> on our website (just click on <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/abbeys/about.do" target="_blank">About Us</a></b> on our homepage). 80 pages in total but you can just dip in and read as much as you like. The first 19 pages by me describe the history of the bookshop and its various addresses, then four pages from our dearly beloved <b>Peter Milne</b> about his special interest in Crime fiction, then 43 pages of memories about shopping at Abbeys written by customers, family and staff, including photographs. Finally there are lists of Forty Favourite Books as chosen by Eve Abbey, Jean Abbey, Ann Leahy, Lindy Jones, Greg Waldron and Peter Milne. It is very interesting to look at these choices ten years later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We no longer mail out the monthly <i><b>Abbey’s Advocate</b></i> or <b><i>Crime Chronicle</i></b> newsletters. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Instead you can subscribe for free to receive these by email (from the link at the top of our <a href="http://bit.ly/abbeys131york" target="_blank">homepage</a>). You will receive a monthly listing of New Titles and Specials, plus personal reviews from our booksellers, as well as quick access to our amazing database. Browsing through <a href="http://bit.ly/abbeys131york" target="_blank">Abbey’s website</a> is almost like the Saturday papers turning up on your doorstep every day. You can check for recent prize-winners and click for immediate access to Galaxy or Language Book Centre databases or check on particular publishers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A box on the <a href="http://bit.ly/abbeys131york" target="_blank">homepage</a> allows you to quickly see all the Penguin Black Classics – all 658 in total and 371 currently in stock on our shelves. You can see photographs and videos of lots of local (and some overseas) authors taken when they visited Abbey’s to sign their latest books. Plus all sorts of current information. If it all gets too much, just come and visit us in-store instead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/productSearch.do?authorName=%22Gail%20Jones%22&txtQuery=%22Gail%20Jones%22&searchBy=author" target="_blank">Gail Jones</a></b> is one of Australia’s finest writers</span><span style="font-size: large;">, yet not as well-known as she should be. Her books are beautifully written, serious and always interesting. Her new book <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-death-of-noah-glass.do" target="_blank">The Death of Noah Glass</a></b> might be called a bit of a mystery. Certainly there is anxiety throughout the book about how Noah died, but all the loose ends are tied up neatly. Noah is an elderly art historian who has been in Palermo studying his favourite painter, Piero della Francesa. He becomes romantically involved with a Professoressa who has a rather stupid plan to steal a sculpture. “Everyone does it here,” she declares. On his return to Sydney, Noah dies in the not-much-used swimming pool of his apartment. Middle-aged son Martin, an artist, sets out for Palermo to discover why and eventually his academic sister, Evie, also reaches Palermo. There is a good deal of philosophising and dissecting of paintings, cathedrals and memories. Her earlier books include <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/sorry-book-9781741666632.do" target="_blank">Sorry</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/dreams-of-speaking-book-9781741667233.do" target="_blank">Dreams of Speaking</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?catFilter=&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=five+bells%2C+gail+jones&category=&title=five+bells&name=&authorName=gail+jones&description=&isbn=&company=&language.id=1&bindFormat=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&stock=1&sort=&series=" target="_blank">Five Bells</a></b> and the recent admired <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?category=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&sort=&language.id=1&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=A+Guide+to+Berlin%2C+Gail+Jones&title=A+Guide+to+Berlin&authorName=Gail+Jones&description=&isbn=" target="_blank">A Guide to Berlin</a></b>, which is certainly not a travel guide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">That great American writer, <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?catFilter=333&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Philip+Roth&category=333&title=&name=&authorName=Philip+Roth&description=&isbn=&company=&language.id=1&bindFormat=&minPrice=&maxPrice=25&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&stock=&sort=price-asc&series=" target="_blank">Philip Roth</a></span><span style="font-size: large;">, died in May. His books include <b>The Plot Against America</b> (too prescient for words!), <b>The Human Stain</b>, <b>The Ghost Writer</b>, <b>American Pastoral</b>, <b>Goodbye Columbus</b> and <b>Portnoy’s Complaint</b> which is, unfortunately, his most famous book. Treat yourself and read any one of his wonderful books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I am having a bit of a kick in <i><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/category/history-of-the-americas.do?company=&authorName=&title=&isbn=&all=&keywords=&txtQuery=&category=&bindFormat=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&stock=1&sort=&series=" target="_blank">American History/Politics</a></i> just now </span><span style="font-size: large;">starting with a new book called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/franklin-d-roosevelt-a-political-life.do" target="_blank">Franklin D. Roosevelt: <i>A Political Life</i></a></b> by Robert Dallek. We remember Roosevelt not only as a great President but also as a much loved and admired man with a wife who was equally admired. The author, History Professor at Boston University, has previously written, a long time ago, Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy 1932 – 1945, as well as books about <b>John F.Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, </b>and<b> Nixon </b>and<b> Kissinger</b>. This latest book does focus more on the details of Roosevelt’s various campaigns for re-election and his mastery of consensus politics. He did, after all, serve an unprecedented four terms and died in office.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Daughter Jane is still working up on the Thai-Burma Border</span><span style="font-size: large;"> with the Karen Women’s Organisation. She is always looking for suitable material for the Personal Development School started years ago in the displaced person’s camp. Recently she asked for <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?catFilter=&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Good+Night+Stories+for+Rebel+Girls&category=&title=Good+Night+Stories+for+Rebel+Girls&name=&authorName=&description=&isbn=&company=&language.id=1&bindFormat=&minPrice=25&maxPrice=50&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&stock=&sort=&series=" target="_blank">Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 1 and 2</a></b>. <b><i>100 Tales of Extraordinary Women</i></b>. Lindy has already mentioned these large hardback books sitting in the treasure trove of Children's books she keeps in the far left of the shop. The books compiled by Francesca Cavallo and Elena Favilli not only succinctly tell the story of important and famous women but the single page story is in clear simple English with a striking original illustration on each facing page. Perfect for primary school libraries or special schools.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looking at Abbey’s website I can also see many books about Eleanor, including the trilogy written by <b>Elizabeth Chadwick</b> beginning <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-summer-queen-book-9780751548303.do" target="_blank">The Summer Queen</a></b>, then <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-winter-crown-book-9780751548259.do" target="_blank">The Winter Crown</a></b> and finally <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-autumn-throne-book-9780751548204.do" target="_blank">The Autumn Throne</a></b>. Find them in Historical Fiction.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">An amusing piece of trivia… </span><span style="font-size: large;">I looked up Henry II who is described as red-haired, freckled, short and sturdy with bow legs from riding his horse so much. Ah yes! Just like Peter O-Toole!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Would you like to try a piece of really original writing? Something unusual? If so, read <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-town-book-9780994606822.do" target="_blank">The Town</a></b> by <b>Shaun Prescott</b>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">This is a first novel from a short story writer and it is very successful. His work is being compared to <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?category=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&sort=&language.id=1&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Gerald+Murnane&title=&authorName=Gerald+Murnane&description=&isbn=" target="_blank">Gerald Murnane</a></b>, especially to <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/plains-book-9781921922275.do" target="_blank">The Plains</a></b>. There is a carefully controlled voice of the narrator, a writer who has moved to a Central West country town in order to write a book about the disappearing towns of the outback. The voice is dry and flat like the surrounding countryside. Is it banal? Surely something will happen? Someone will rebel? Fatalistic for sure. <i><b>The Lifted Brow</b></i> is the small publisher responsible for this. Take a good look.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve just finished reading <b>Tim Winton</b>’s deeply personal book <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?catFilter=&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=boy%2C+winton&category=&title=boy&name=&authorName=winton&description=&isbn=&company=&language.id=1&bindFormat=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&stock=1&sort=&series=" target="_blank">The Boy Behind the Curtains</a></b>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">This is a wonderful book, brilliantly written, wise and mature. In some pieces he recalls accidents that happened to his family, in others he speaks about the landscape of Western Australia and in others he recalls the important part played by church-going in his adolescence, or a visit to the National Gallery of Victoria or the euphoria of surfing or swimming with whales or the strangeness of a winter living in the gatehouse of a derelict Irish castle.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Boy Behind the Curtain has recently won the <i><b>Non-Fiction Prize</b></i> at the <i><b>Adelaide Festival</b></i>. Tim has donated the $15,000 prize to the fund for the Ningaloo Reef, one of his environmental concerns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Since then I have read <b>Tim Winton</b>’s latest book, a novel called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-shepherds-hut-book-9780143786115.do" target="_blank">The Shepherd’s Hut</a></b>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">This is a very different approach. Written in the voice of an angry, poorly educated young man who has been horribly abused by his father, it is a style I would usually not enjoy reading but there are intermittent gorgeous descriptions of the Western Australian landscape as the young man escapes from society.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Fans of <b>Julian Barnes</b> will enjoy his latest novel <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-only-story.do" target="_blank">The Only Story</a></b>,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> which is the curiously unemotional tale of a long love affair between a very young man and an older married woman in the suburban wilds of Surrey, England. All very circumspect and polite. I found it odd and dispiriting but nonetheless thought-provoking.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I’ve been watching a three disc set of <b>Evelyn Waugh</b>’s fabulous novel <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/brideshead-revisited-book-9780141045627.do" target="_blank">Brideshead Revisited</a></b>.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">So sad. So melancholy. But thirty or more years ago no-one rang a friend on Sunday night because everyone was watching Brideshead Revisited.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The novel was a surprise departure from the famous satirical novels he had written in the thirties and described Charles Ryder’s infatuation with an aristocratic Anglo-Catholic family. It was first published in 1945 but the <i>Popular Penguin</i> edition which you can buy for $12.99 (who can complain about the price of books!) has some revisions made by Waugh and his Preface to the revised edition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">After <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/brideshead-revisited-book-9780141045627.do" target="_blank">Brideshead Revisited</a></b> he went on to write some of best novels of the twentieth century, </span><span style="font-size: large;">using his own experience as a not very successful soldier. <b>Officers and Gentlemen</b>, <b>Men at Arms</b> and <b>Unconditional Surrender</b> were put into one volume in 1965 under the title <b>Sword of Honour</b>. There is a special edition in <i>Penguin Modern Classics</i> as well as a <i>Popular Penguin</i> edition.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The most exciting book I have read this month</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">is a non-fiction thriller by <b>Nicholas Shakespeare</b> called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/six-minutes-in-may-how-churchill-unexpectedly-became-prime-minister-book-9781846559730.do">Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister</a></b>. Of course <b>Winston Churchill</b> is very much in the news just now on account of various movies, especially <i><b>The Darkest Hour</b></i>, but he is only one of the fascinating characters striding across the stage, managing the resignation of <b>Neville Chamberlain</b> as Britain faces up to war. This is a book for people who like history, people who like gossip and people who like to watch the manoeuvres of politicians. It’s another big book, 507 pages, including more than 100 pages of notes.
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Nicholas Shakespeare has had the most amazing success in his research. I think he had more than a few personal contacts. The notes explain, chapter by chapter, the sources for most of the fascinating quotations. Many come from personal anecdotes, quotes from memoirs or private correspondence. The intrigue between Lord Halifax and Baba Metcalf forms a central mystery. Halifax had been Viceroy of India, as had Baba’s father, Lord Curzon. I think I shall have to re-read <b>Anne de Courcy</b>’s book, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-viceroys-daughters-the-lives-of-the-curzon-sisters-book-9780753812556.do">The Viceroy’s Daughters</a></b>. All very English.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I received a very nice little gift</span><span style="font-size: large;"> recently from one of our treasured long-term customers. He dropped in a copy of the International Edition of the <i>Daily Express</i> because it contained an article about the final edition of <b>Pears’ Cyclopedia</b>. He remembered my enthusiasm for this little marvel of information. I shall have to get a copy of this – the 126th edition. My copy is the 95th edition, which was for 1986-87: A Book of Background Information and Reference for Everyday Use. <i>Wikipedia</i> and <i>Google</i> may well have taken its place, but where else can I find on one page the answers to these questions, which may be required for my crossword - International Currencies, Roman Numerals, International Timetable and the Greek Alphabet. Page N9. You could take it to a desert island with you and lack of electricity would not be a problem.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In <i>Spectrum</i> this Saturday, <b>Peter Craven</b>,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> in honour of 100 years since the birth of <b>Muriel Spark</b>, wrote a lovely piece of wholehearted admiration for work. Hear Hear! I had a look at Abbey’s database and found nine titles in stock, plus several more reissues which are forthcoming. One of the delights to be found at Abbey’s is the presence of a deep backlist of good titles sitting beside the latest and trendiest new titles. Here are Spark’s novels, all of them remembered fondly by me: <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/prime-of-miss-jean-brodie-popular-penguins.do">The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/far-cry-from-kensington.do">A Far Cry from Kensington</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-mandelbaum-gate-a-virago-modern-classic.do">Mandelbaum Gate</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-public-image-book-9781844089673.do">The Public Image</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?category=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&sort=&language.id=1&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Girls+of+Slender+Means&title=Girls+of+Slender+Means&authorName=&description=&isbn=">Girls of Slender Means</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/territorial-rights-a-virago-modern-classic.do">Territorial Rights</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-bachelors-book-9781782117551.do">Bachelors</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-finishing-school-book-9781782117575.do">Finishing School</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-drivers-seat-book-9780141188348.do">Drivers Seat</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/sparks-europe.do">Spark’s Europe</a></b>, which contains <b>Not to Disturb</b>, <b>The Takeover</b> and <b>The Only Problem</b>. I’ll have lots of fun re-reading some of these. This will overcome my present difficulty in finding the right fiction to read.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Have you been to see the latest <b>Daniel Day-Lewis</b> film? </span><span style="font-size: large;">It is called <i><b>Phantom Thread</b></i> and is about an artist in charge of a famous haute couture establishment. When I was in the shop recently, Lindy showed me a gorgeous big book about <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-house-of-worth-1858-1954-the-birth-of-haute-couture.do" target="_blank">The House of Worth</a>,</b> full of illustrations of wonderful dresses and information about the famous Parisian fashion house which operated from 1858 to 1956. An effort was made in 1999 to re-establish the name, but I think now it is only associated with perfumes. </span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In November I went to a fascinating talk</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">put on by the <b>Jessie Street Women’s Memorial Library</b> at the <b>Customs House Library</b> at Circular Quay. Have you ever called in there? It’s such a welcoming spot in the heart of the city, basking in the glory of having saved this gorgeous old building. There are meeting rooms and changing exhibitions by local artists, free wi-fi with public access to computers, and a very comfortable lounge if you want to spend a quiet ten minutes while waiting for a friend. And of course a few books, magazines, comics, DVDs and ebooks, as well as newspapers, from all over the world. There is a special room on the first floor for Asian material, and a special room on the ground floor for detective books.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The talk was by <b>Marilla North</b>, an enthusiastic supporter of the works of <b>Dymphna Cusack</b>, author of the Australian classic <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/come-in-spinner-book-9780732296988.do" target="_blank">Come in Spinner</a></b>. As Marilla says, “everyone should read Come in Spinner”. Not only is it a classic, it is startlingly readable. Despite its chequered history, it has remained constantly in print since first published in 1951, when it had to be abridged because the subject matter - including rape, prostitution and abortion - was considered too controversial. Perhaps you remember seeing the ABC television series in 1990? The story revolves around the lives of three young women working in the beauty salon of a famous hotel during the Second World War. The only drawback is it’s 700 pages, so be sure to have a bookmark handy!</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Marilla North is currently working on a biography</span><span style="font-size: large;"> of Dymphna Cusack, but meantime she has produced <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/yarn-spinners.do" target="_blank">Yarn Spinners</a></b>, which unfortunately does not say clearly on the cover that it’s the story of three of our most famous female writers - <b>Miles Franklin</b>, <b>Dymphna Cusack</b> and <b>Florence James</b>. All three were early supporters of the women’s movement, social justice and human rights. Their story is told by arranging the letters between themselves and their friends from the 1930s to the 1950s. This will be regarded as Volume One of the projected biography. This is all fascinating stuff – not just literary memories – as these women were very active both socially and politically. Be sure to read this. It was first published in 2001 by University of Queensland Press. It’s another big book - 566 pages including index, end notes and a useful historical chronology of the times.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">PART 1: I’ve brought home <b>Julia Baird</b>’s wonderful biography,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/victoria-the-woman-who-made-the-modern-world.do" target="_blank">Victoria: The Queen: <i>An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Changed the World</i></a></b>. This has 696 pages including index and notes. With my bookmark at the ready, I’m plunging into this very readable and fascinating account of Victoria’s life. I’m sure we’re ready for this most personal look at her life. Victoria has been in the public mind lately, what with films and TV series. Find it in history, not biography. It’s worth using a book cover for all these big books. (CONTINUED BELOW)</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I recently went to see</span><span style="font-size: large;"> <b>Agatha Christie</b>’s <b><i><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?catFilter=&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Murder+on+the+Orient+Express&category=&title=Murder+on+the+Orient+Express&name=&authorName=&description=&isbn=&company=&language.id=1&bindFormat=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&stock=1&sort=&series=" target="_blank">Murder on the Orient Express</a></i></b> at the movies. This new production by <b>Kenneth Branagh</b> has aroused a lot of interest, not least because at the end <b>Poirot</b> does not solve the crime; he just offers two suggested solutions! Very annoying, so I was led to read the book again. And guess what? The film is indeed true to the book! I have seen maybe three other versions and I guess this won’t be the last.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Easy reading and not such a big book is <b>Bruce Beresford</b>’s</span><span style="font-size: large;"> collection of reminiscences, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/best-film-i-never-made-and-other-stories-about-a-life-in-the-arts.do" target="_blank">The Best Film I Never Made: <i>And Other Stories About a Life in the Art</i>s</a></b> (281 pages). These memories are not only interesting, they also show our famous film director to be a very courteous and kindly man, one who had a vision to be a film director all his life (even if his son, when asked to name a director with the initials BB, could only come up with <b>Bernardo Bertolucci</b>!).</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">2018 has arrived.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> Abbey’s Bookshop, Language Book Centre and Galaxy Bookshop all look forward to 2018 when we can continue offering you the services of a good bookshop. Our staff are ready and waiting to help you and we've had a wonderful selection of titles in-store over Christmas and into the New Year to tempt you.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">PART 2: Well, I made my way with much pleasure</span><span style="font-size: large;"> through <b>Julia Baird</b>’s big biography of </span><b style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/victoria-the-woman-who-made-the-modern-world.do" target="_blank">Victoria: The Queen: <i>An Intimate Biography of the Woman Who Changed the World</i></a></b><span style="font-size: large;">. Although it looks daunting it is not. It is lightly written, with frequent asides to mention what else was happening in the world at that moment. You feel as if a very well-educated friend is telling you a good story. Quite fascinating. No wonder Victoria is the subject of so many films, TV series and books. I think I have to go and see the film <i><b>Victoria and Abdul</b></i> which I passed on before. There’s a good story there.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In my search</span><span style="font-size: large;"> for some good non-fiction a friend recommended <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/inglorious-empire-what-the-british-did-to-india-book-9781925322576.do" target="_blank">Inglorious Empire: <i>What the British Did to India</i></a></b> by <b>Shashi Tharoor</b>. It is incredible how the <i>East India Company</i>, and then the British Crown, rolled into India and destroyed a very successful medieval economy, extracted huge amounts of money, sent Indian soldiers to fight battles overseas and charged India for that, and made sure Indians were second class citizens. Tharoor tries hard to give some credit to Britain but says he finds it far easier to forgive than to forget. He pours scorn on the praise of Empire in the books by <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?catFilter=&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Niall+Ferguson&category=&title=&name=&authorName=Niall+Ferguson&description=&isbn=&company=&language.id=1&bindFormat=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&stock=1&sort=&series=" target="_blank">Niall Ferguson</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/productSearch.do?authorName=%22Lawrence%20James%22&txtQuery=%22Lawrence%20James%22&searchBy=author" target="_blank">Lawrence James</a></b>, but recommends a new book by <b>Jon Wilson</b> called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/india-conquered-britains-raj-and-the-chaos-of-empire.do" target="_blank">India Conquered: <i>Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire</i></a></b>. He does delight, however, in telling us that Tetley Tea Company is now owned by an Indian company and that an Indian company recently rescued the British Steel Industry. <i>[Editor's note: Also owned by the Indian company, Tata Motors, are two icons of British motoring, Jaguar and Land Rover].</i> Previously, by means of regulations about standards, the successful Indian steel industry was almost destroyed, along with shipbuilding). Oh dear! It makes me feel very guilty over the pleasure I have taken watching all those lovely British Raj stories, especially <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-jewel-in-the-crown.do" target="_blank">Jewel in the Crown</a></b>! I was surprised and pleased to find Abbey’s has copies of the famous <i>Raj Quartet</i> stories by <b>Paul Scott</b>. They are <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-towers-of-silence.do" target="_blank">The Towers of Silence</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-day-of-the-scorpion.do" target="_blank">The Day of the Scorpion</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/a-division-of-the-spoils.do" target="_blank">A Division of the Spoils</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/staying-on.do" target="_blank">Staying on</a></b>. Enjoy them. Great characters including many historical figures and the very best portrayal of life in the British Raj.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Have you been watching</span><span style="font-size: large;"> the distressing documentaries on SBS about the Vietnam War? Journalist <b>Neil Sheehan</b> is one of the many people interviewed. His book <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/a-bright-shining-lie-john-paul-vann-and-america-in-vietnam-book-9780679724148.do" target="_blank">Bright Shining Lie: <i>John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam</i></a></b> is regarded as the ultimate classic on this period. John Paul Vann was the American Colonel very unhappy with the progress of the war who was more than happy to leak information to a good journalist.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Over the holidays</span><span style="font-size: large;"> I read an excellent novel which was short-listed for the <i><b>Man Booker Prize 2014</b></i>. It is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/we-are-all-completely-beside-ourselves-book-9781846689666.do" target="_blank">We are all Completely Beside Ourselves</a></b> and is by <b>Karen Joy Fowler</b>. At the beginning, the voice of the college-girl narrator sounds very like Holden Caulfield in <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?catFilter=&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Catcher+in+the+Rye&category=&title=Catcher+in+the+Rye&name=&authorName=&description=&isbn=&company=&language.id=1&bindFormat=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&stock=1&sort=&series=" target="_blank">Catcher in the Rye</a></b>. However, there is a surprising twist in the middle. To tell you would spoil the surprise! Suffice to say, the rest of the novel not only concerns college-life it also concerns the activities of animal liberationists. A good choice for book clubs – there is plenty to discuss.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Lindy Jones: "At this time of the year I can barely count to five, but here are some of the books I enjoyed reading this year."</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, when nearly half my year is pretty much exclusively <i>Miles Franklin Award</i> submissions, and then half of the rest is for the Summer Catalogue, you must forgive me if I just have to revisit books I might have mentioned elsewhere!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-size: x-large;"><b>Five Books You Should Have Read Because They Were MF Shortlisted. Or Won Other Awards! So Read them!</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/extinctions-book-9781742588988.do" target="_blank">Extinctions</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Josephine Wilson</b></span></div>
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The Winner of the <i>Miles Franklin</i>. And the <i>Colin Roderick Award</i>. And originally the <i>Dorothy Hewitt</i>. All mean something: a damn fine book!</span>
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/their-brilliant-careers-the-lives-of-sixteen-remarkable-australian-writers.do" target="_blank">Their Brilliant Careers</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Ryan O'Neill</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Winner of the <i>Prime Minister's Award</i>. Clever, tricksy and very, very funny.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/last-days-of-ava-langdon.do" target="_blank">The Last Days of Ava Langdon</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Mark O'Flynn</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">This scored the <i>Voss Literary Award</i>. An evocative and lively portrait of an outsider.</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/waiting-book-9781922186836.do" target="_blank">Waiting</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Philip Salom</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Shortlisted for other awards. Sympathetic without sentimentality: brilliant portraits brilliantly rendered. </span>
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/an-isolated-incident-book-9781760553562.do" target="_blank">An Isolated Incident</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Emily Maguire</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Shortlisted for other awards as well. Says a lot about modern society, media, women, crime, and in an involving storyline.</span>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-size: x-large;"><b>Five Other Novels Really Really Worth Reading. (Ok, there is SIX but the demand for Sarah Winman's Tin Man has been greater than supply!)</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/reservoir-13-book-9780008204860.do" target="_blank">Reservoir 13</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Jon McGregor</b></span></div>
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Not enough superlatives for this. Go with it, and be rewarded. </span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-reservoir-tapes.do" target="_blank">The Reservoir Tapes</a></b></div>
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<b style="color: #4e4644; font-size: xx-large;">Jon McGregor</b></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">And excitingly, McGregor wrote some supporting short stories, that add yet another dimension to this masterpiece.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-life-to-come-book-9781760296568.do" target="_blank">The Life to Come</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Michelle de Kretser</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Beautiful writing, sharp observations, clever and witty and sometimes quite cutting.</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-ninth-hour-book-9781408854617.do" target="_blank">The Ninth Hour</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Alice McDermott</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Depression-era New York, strong women making the best of bad situations, fine prose.</span>
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/rules-of-magic-book-9781471168987.do" target="_blank">The Rules of Magic</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Alice Hoffman</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Prequel to the wonderful <b>Practical Magic</b>. New York again, but in the 60s. And then if you haven't read the first, you've got another treat coming.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-tin-man-book-9780755390960.do" target="_blank">Tin Man</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Sarah Winman</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">I'll go so far as to say this is my favourite book of the year.</span>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-size: x-large;"><b>Five Novels that Live in the Young Adult Section (But Don't Let That Stop Older Ones from Reading them…)</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-call-book-9781910200988.do" target="_blank">The Call</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Peadar O'Guilin</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Fairies are evil. Very evil. They want Ireland back, and they steal teenagers to teach humans a lesson. Genuinely suspenseful, rattling good read.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/stags-book-9781471406768.do" target="_blank">S.T.A.G.S.</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>M A Bennett</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Private schoolkids are evil. Very evil. And if you dare to overstep your caste or class, you're going to be taught a lesson. Scary, clever and engrossing.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/landscape-with-invisible-hand-book-9780763699505.do" target="_blank">Landscape with Invisible Hand</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>M T Anderson</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Aliens are evil. Actually they are arch-capitalists, so that makes them very very evil. Is this a fable? or a clever tale about the impact of technology vs artistic endeavour? Or both?</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/beautiful-mess-book-9781925498547.do" target="_blank">Beautiful Mess</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Clare Christian</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Grief and mental illness make a mess of two teen misfits. At least they're not evil. And they do find their way through. Bittersweet and satisfying.</span>
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/i-capture-the-castle-book-9780099460879.do" target="_blank"> I Capture the Castle</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Dodie Smith</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Okay, it's not new. But it's a favourite, almost an Austen in terms of my rereading it. And there's nothing remotely evil at all about it. Just lovely writing with wonderful characters.</span>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-size: x-large;"><b>Five Assorted Non-Fiction Books (Without Birds as the Main Subject). OK, Six!</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/i-am-i-am-i-am-seventeen-brushes-with-death-book-9781472240750.do" target="_blank">I Am, I Am, I Am</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Maggie O'Farrell</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">You wouldn't believe how readable 17 personal brushes with death can be. But she is a very good novelist as well.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/husband-hunters-book-9781474601443.do" target="_blank">The Husband Hunters</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Anne de Courcy</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Anything by de Courcy is wonderfully vivid. This is about the trade in 19th century American heiresses to impoverished European nobility.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-trauma-cleaner.do" target="_blank">The Trauma Cleaner</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Sarah Krasnostein</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Extremely moving and almost voyeuristic at times, but truly engrossing.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/tracker-tilmouth-the-vision-splendid.do" target="_blank">Tracker</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Alexis Wright</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">The circular storytelling style was as fascinating as the subject, Tracker Tilmouth, himself. </span>
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-harbour-book-9781925368772.do" target="_blank">The Harbour: A City's Heart, a Country's Soul</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Scott Bevan</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">If this doesn't make you want to take up kayaking, nothing will!</span>
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/anaesthesia-the-gift-of-oblivion-and-the-mystery-of-consciousness.do" target="_blank">Anaesthesia</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Kate Cole-Adams</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">What is oblivion? What is consciousness? This lyrical book explores these questions, blending science and personal experience. Won the <i>Waverley Library Award.</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-size: x-large;"><b>Five Assorted Non-Fiction Books with Pictures In Them. (Plus a Ring-in).</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Chantal Trubert-Tollu</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">What the husband hunters wore. And characters in Downton Abbey or Edith Wharton novels. So, so beautiful - can I try one on, just once?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Theodore Gray</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">I don't do chemistry. But I do when it's Theodore Gray. (Or Sam Kean: <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/caesars-last-breath-book-9780857525130.do" target="_blank">Caesar's Last Breath</a>. So enjoyable! and there are a few illustrations)</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/mirror-sydney-an-atlas-of-reflections.do" target="_blank">Mirror Sydney</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Vanessa Berry</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Look at the layers of Sydney with new eyes. Quirky and charming drawings throughout.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/painting-by-numbers-book-9781742235226.do" target="_blank">Painting by Numbers</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>David Mabberley</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">I would argue that Ferdinand Bauer is one of the geniuses of scientific illustration. So does this book! </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Positively swoonworthy. And not many left in stock, but swoop, swoop upon this, or wait until the new year.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-australian-bird-guide-book-9780643097544.do" target="_blank">The Australian Bird Guide</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Peter Menkhorst and lots of other talented people</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">So, you carry the Slaters in your pocket, and the Pizzey in your backpack, and the ABG in the car. But you NEED it, you REALLY do. You can't have too many guides…</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Neil Hermes</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">A photographic guide, distinguished by excellent in-the-field photos and great information.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/birds-whats-in-a-name.do" target="_blank">Birds: What's in a Name</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Peter Barry</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">A bit of light-hearted but educational fun. Names of a whole lot of birds from all around the world are explained.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Berndt Brunner</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">If there was a cure for this mania, the 'sufferers' would refuse it… </span>
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-seabirds-cry.do" target="_blank">The Seabird's Cry: The Lives and Loves of Puffins, Gannets and Other Ocean Voyagers</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Adam Nicolson</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Puffins, gannets, guillemots and other northern seabirds. Poetic, moving and that beautiful blend of personal narrative and nature writing the English do so well.</span>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Lyanda Lynn Haupt</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">If Mozart could enjoy the companionship of a starling, then maybe this detested bird has merits afterall. The (American) author sees for herself.</span><br />
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<b style="color: #0000ee; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/Call-of-the-Reed-Warbler-9780702253416.do" target="_blank">Call of the Reed Warbler: A New Agriculture - A New Earth</a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Charles Massy</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Haven't finished this yet, and yes it's not an ornithological tome, but it has a lot to say about farming sustainably, sensibly and for more than ourselves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can always sit down with a cuppa and look through our <b>Summer Reading Catalogue</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-size: x-large;"><b>There are plenty of books that will sell nicely this year, so choosing bestsellers isn’t so obvious. Some that will probably rise above the others include:</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/mirror-sydney-an-atlas-of-reflections.do" target="_blank"><b>Mirror Sydney</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Vanessa Berry (Giramondo)</b></span></div>
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This engaging book follows the tracks of vanished and vanishing histories, particularly in the ordinary and overlooked suburbs, and celebrates both Indigenous and European landscape.</span>
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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-darkening-age-the-destruction-of-the-classical-world.do" target="_blank">Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Catherine Nixey (Macmillan)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">The largely unknown story of how a militant religion comprehensively and deliberately extinguished the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to 'one true faith'.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/bletchley-park-brainteasers.do" target="_blank">Bletchley Park Brain Teasers</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Sinclair McKay (Hachette)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Do you fancy finding out if you have a talent for morse code? Or discovering whether your crossword hobby might have seen you recruited into the history books? If so, and you're a Bletchley Park history buff or a fan of the GCHQ Quiz Book, then this is the book for you.</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/river-of-consciousness.do" target="_blank">The River of Consciousness</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Oliver Sacks (Picador)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Sacks examines questions of memory, time, and consciousness. How do we think, how do we remember? Do different individuals have different speeds or ways of thinking? Is memory reliable? </span>
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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/a-legacy-of-spies-book-9780241308554.do" target="_blank">A Legacy of Spies</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>John le Carré (Viking)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">This is the first le Carré novel in over twenty-five years to feature George Smiley, and is classic le Carré - a period all his fans have been waiting for him to revisit. Not to be missed.</span>
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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/joseph-banks-florilegium-botanical-treasures-from-cooks-first-voyage.do" target="_blank">Joseph Banks' Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Mel Gooding, David Mabberley, Joe Studholme (Thames & Hudson)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">With excellent commentaries on the specimens and their place in botany, as well as general text about the voyage and Bank’s achievements, this is a magnificent, desirable and outstanding book.</span>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-size: x-large;"><b>As for surprise sellers, in a way we are never surprised at what our customers buy! They might seem quirky to other bookshops but relatively normal for Abbey’s.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/bradshaws-tourist-handbook.do" target="_blank"><b>Bradshaw’s Handbook</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>George Bradshaw (Bloomsbury)</b></span></div>
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This is not a ‘new’ book in any sense of the word, but it taps into history, nostalgia and quirkiness. Deserves a place on the bookshelf of any traveller, railway enthusiast, historian or anglophile. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/prisoners-of-geography-ten-maps-that-tell-you-everything-you-need-to-know-about-global-politics-book-9781783962433.do" target="_blank">Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Tim Marshall (</b></span><span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Elliott & Thompson)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Go on, resist that title! A fascinating and clearly written book about geopolitics that appeals to the thoughtful reader.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #0000ee; font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/a-paris-all-your-own-bestselling-women-writers-on-the-city-of-light.do" target="_blank">A Paris All Your Own: Bestselling Women Writers on the City of Light</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Eleanor Brown (Ed.) (Putnam)</b></span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Certain cities always sell at Abbey's: Rome, Pompeii, Istanbul, Jerusalem - and Paris.</span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another subject that sells well here, particularly if presented with enthusiasm and wonder (rather than as the chore maths was for many of us!)</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Medieval history has lost some of its currency lately, but there are still readers who devour anything on the subject. <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/templars-book-9781781858912.do" target="_blank">The Templars</a></b> by <b>Dan Jones</b> (Head of Zeus) is another history book that will be snapped up.</span>
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The new <b>Alexander McCall Smith</b> novel <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-good-pilot-peter-woodhouse.do" target="_blank">The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse</a></b> (Polygon), <b>Sulari Gentill</b>’s latest <i>‘Rowland Sinclair’</i> mystery <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/dangerous-language-8-rowland-sinclair.do" target="_blank">A Dangerous Language</a></b> (Pantera Press), <b>Richard Fidler & Kari Gislason</b>’s <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/saga-land.do" target="_blank">Saga Land</a></b> (HarperCollins) and the delightful ‘Baby University’ board books by <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/advanced-results.do?category=&minPrice=&maxPrice=&minPubDate=&maxPubDate=&sort=&language.id=1&advancedSearch=true&txtQuery=Chris+Ferrie&title=&authorName=Chris+Ferrie&description=&isbn=" target="_blank">Chris Ferrie</a></b> (Sourcebooks), which are being purchased for child and adult alike! </span><br />
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Abbey's Bookshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10916116049312673434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937457690333168531.post-3242194039318739272017-10-05T10:55:00.000+11:002017-10-05T10:59:25.435+11:00Notes from Eve Abbey ~ October 2017<style>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I recently sent out an SOS to the booksellers in Abbey’s</span><span style="font-size: large;"> — I wanted a recommendation for a good non-fiction book, as a change from fiction. I received prompt replies and am now looking forward to some interesting reading. Siân suggested a book from a Russian writer who was famously popular in the Twenties and Thirties and whose work has recently been re-published and is popular again. <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/memories-from-moscow-to-the-black-sea.do">Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea</a></b> by Teffi relates her adventures as she escaped from Moscow after the revolution. Published by the New York Review of Books. There are plenty of notes and a list of Further Reading for those interested in the reactions of ordinary people during the Revolution, although when I say this I must also say that Teffi was not an ordinary person!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Greg suggested <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/at-the-existentialist-cafe-freedom-being-and-apricot-cocktails-book-9780099554882.do">At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails</a></b> by <b>Sarah Bakewell</b>, Lindy suggested <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/anaesthesia-the-gift-of-oblivion-and-the-mystery-of-consciousness.do">Anaesthesia: The Gift of Oblivion</a></b> by <b>Kate Cole-Adams</b>, while Dean suggested <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/ghost-empire-book-9780733338557.do">Ghost Empire</a></b> by <b>Richard Fidler</b>. I’m going to read them all soon.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">In January 2009, experienced Australian journalist <b>John Lyons</b> arrived in Israel</span><span style="font-size: large;"> as the foreign correspondent for the Australian newspaper, together with his wife Sylvie le Clezio, a photo journalist, and his eight-year-old son Jack. They stayed until January 2015. He has now published <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/a-balcony-over-jerusalem-a-memoir-of-occupation.do">Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir</a></b> describing these fascinating years. This book will disappoint supporters of Israel. In Israel, there is much to admire, but the treatment of Palestinians living in Israel and the expansion of the Jewish Settlements on the West Bank is very troubling. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Lyons finds he can write as much criticism as he likes in Israel, but when such criticism is published overseas, there is an immediate reaction from supporters of Israel. The reasoning behind this is that readers of the Israeli local press are committed to the idea of Israel and accept that certain things do indeed happen, but such criticism in overseas media harms the image of a successful Jewish state. There are plenty of people ready and willing to obstruct such reports. There is no doubt that Israel wins the media battle. The latter parts of the book are really useful in trying to make sense of the Middle East - about the struggle between Sunni and Shia, about how Hamas works and the aims of the Netanyahu government, as well as a bit of history. His most alarming conclusion is that before too long the Jewish population in Israel will be a minority.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If you’re feeling a little unhappy about the state of the world,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> I recommend you read <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/life-and-leadership.do">Live Lead Learn: My Stories of Life and Leadership</a></b> by <b>Gail Kelly</b>, former CEO of St George Bank and Westpac. She now has numerous other roles, including a continuing member of the G30 and the Global Board of Advisors to the US Council on Foreign Relations, director of Woolworth Holdings in South Africa, director of the Country Road Group and David Jones in Australia, Ambassador for Women’s Empowerment for Care Australia and Adjunct Professor at the University of NSW. With seven pages of interesting photographs, this book is full of heartfelt advice for anyone who leads a group, from a true leader. It is really unusual to find someone so consistently thoughtful and kind. You’ll feel better about the world when you read this memoir of a generous-hearted businesswoman.</span>
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Abbey's Bookshophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10916116049312673434noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937457690333168531.post-61529832041591071452017-09-21T15:29:00.003+10:002017-09-21T15:50:56.801+10:00Lindy Jones' Reviews ~ September 2017<style>
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Taking place over three years, this traces the friendships and changing lives of a small community just outside the outback town of Katherine. It follows a formula - the standoffish woman, her misfit friend, the English rose daughter-in-law, and the outsider and the abused wife - all women needing to prove their worth in a male-oriented world. Together they find friendship and succour while attempting to find something finer (and more literary) in their difficult lives. And yes, while it isn't wildly original, it is an enjoyable, competent and satisfying read, probably best accompanied with a plate of scones and a pot of tea!</span>
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What better set-up in order to dissect attitudes, skewer pretensions and tell lots of stories, than a huge family gathering? On a hot November weekend at his newly acquired vineyard near Ballarat, barrister Hugh Cleary is hosting a family reunion to celebrate 160 years since Conor Cleary arrived in Australia. Amongst the attendees is his notorious rock star brother Simon/Sly, who thinks he’s dead and is the complacent host to Conor’s ghost; sister Thea, a doctor with a family health revelation; their father Mick, a die-hard Richmond fan still nursing a grudge about being made redundant years ago; cousin Doug, who was part of the team that sacked Mick; cousin Ryan, Catholic priest/ex-Afghanistan forces padre with a secret crush. Then there’s the strangely familiar teenager, tattooed and disruptive, who in a Puck-like way spreads mischief and spite wherever he goes.<br /><br />
With such a vast number of characters to choose from, Drewe has sly fun commenting on family, society and history. Sometimes a little stretched with so many characters, and occasionally veering towards stereotype, this is nonetheless an entertaining read, the family dynamics leading to many humorous set pieces, and Drewe’s descriptive powers perfectly capturing the landscape.</span>
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This third book from Winman is very different from her others (When God was a Rabbit; A Year of Marvellous Ways). There's no magic realism - something I love as a reader, though others don't - but there is the beautiful writing and fully fleshed believable characters that have characterised her work. I'll go so far as to say this is my favourite book of the year so far, and I don't really think it will be topped. In all ways this is a perfect book, from its narrative structure to its depiction of loss, grief, friendship, love and survival.<br /><br />
It's almost impossible to describe this book without giving away the plot, such as it is, but it is about a man who has lost everything he valued. Ellis works in an automotive factory, going through the motions after the two loves of his life died five years previously. He is haunted by grief and regret and the sheer weariness of keeping going when there seems to be nothing left to live for. The reader learns what he has lost, but we also see the first shoots of regrowth… An entirely believable and truly moving story, one you can go back to and read again and again. I have - four times now. I suspect I will keep this one close! </span>
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One of the very best writers when it comes to twisty crime writing, this new book has all the psychological dramas and hidden motives any fan could wish for! Agatha is a shop assistant, and she is pregnant. She is also fixated with Meg, one of her customers, who is also pregnant, but lives a different sort of life - one that Agatha knows about because she not only watches Meg very carefully but reads her mummy-blog. <br /><br /> Appearances deceive, because Meghan is not having quite so perfect a life as Agatha believes. Both Agatha and Meghan are hiding secrets, and as they come closer to delivering their babies, the story starts to become very gripping indeed… Told through both characters' voices, this is a compelling thriller, and as Robotham can do so easily, there are always more surprises even when you think everything is revealed!</span>
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When Ben is eleven, the girl next door commits suicide. A new neighbour moves in, and asks Ben to do small jobs for him around the yard. It's the late 80s and Ben has been brought up to be polite and helpful. Ben's best friend, Fab, is a bit of a tearaway, exceedingly loyal, and the victim of unacknowledged (though well known) domestic violence. <br /><br />They do everything together but Ben starts to become distant, and as they grow older they grow apart. As the narrative switches in time, the reader starts to see what has happened and a chilling story is revealed. Atmospheric and gripping, with a veracity to place only someone who has grown up in a small town can convey, it is the sort of book you read in one sitting, but stays with you for much longer.</span>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Melanie Cheng</b></span></div>
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This won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Unpublished Manuscript last year, and is of the high calibre you would expect from such a prestigious award. It is a collection of short stories, and the main theme is how people of different backgrounds try to find a place to belong in contemporary Australia. A medical student from Hong Kong meets his white girlfriend's country family for the first time; the Indian doctor who is targeted by an Italian patient who hasn't improved after his broken bones were set in casualty; the girl who finally admits to her Syrian background in a tourist setting; the Chinese grandmother made to feel burdensome. But there are also tender and perceptive stories about motherhood, loneliness and ageing. Sympathetic, clear-eyed and insightful writing.</span>
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Many people dream about making a tree change. When Simpson and her partner fell in love with ten steep acres of bush in the Sunshine Coast hinterland, they succumbed to its allure without quite knowing just what they were taking on. Within a short time they followed their hearts and purchased the adjoining block to set up their own writers’ retreat business, threw in their jobs and slaved – only for the GFC (and other factors) to drop them so deep into debt that their dream, and their lives, started to unravel.<br /><br />
This book interleaves natural science and personal story, description and reflection. Many chapters start with a particular tree found on the block - its growth and habit, the fauna it supports and its human usage - before flowing into Simpson’s life and labours. She learns to look, to see, and finally to recognise not only the trees on her property, but also her own possibilities and strengths. While each of her novels (Mr Wigg; Nest; Where the Trees Were) has shown a strong connection to land and nature, this book allows her to expand her concerns and observations, and to preserve and celebrate her trees in words - a fine addition to the genre of Australian nature writing. </span>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>M. A. Bennett</b></span></div>
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Greer has had the choice while her father is on an extended filming job to stay with her rather dull aunt or to take a place at St Aidans the Great boarding school. She's smart so it seems a good idea to go to the school, with its extensive educational programmes. However, it caters for an entirely different class of people, and she soon finds herself friendless and struggling amongst the privileged set.<br /><br />
But then she gets an invitation from the golden boy Henry de Warlencourt, embossed with the words: Huntin' Shootin' Fishin.' Thinking this is her entrée into the school's hierarchy, led on by Henry to think she is specially chosen, she accepts. It doesn't take long for her to realise that she and two others (also misfits in the school - the nouveau riche daughter of a tech king and the son of an Indian principality) are especially chosen, and that the hunting, shooting and fishing is for entirely different quarry than the animals on the isolated estate...
A gripping, sometimes genuinely terrifying, novel - one that was hard to put down! Ages 14+ </span>
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Gabe was left as a foundling on the steps of a monastery, and has known no other life than the cloistered and disciplined institution. Nor does he have any great curiosity about the outer world, thinking his life will always be ordered and neat - until a dying man thrusts a mysterious manuscript into his hands with instructions to take it to Aidan and no-one else. <br /><br />Before he has time to blink, Gabe is swept up into a grand adventure, unable to return to the monastery, not knowing who to trust and on the run. Fortunately for him he falls into the hands of a notorious band of robbers - who happen to be girls with a mission of their own. A swift-paced adventure for readers 9-12.</span>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Krystal Sutherland</b></span></div>
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Esther's family has been cursed, ever since her grandfather met Death's apprentice in Vietnam, and actually escaped the fate that was meant to be his. Each member has a great fear, and it will be the thing that kills them - her father is agoraphobic, her mother an addicted gambler who fears bad luck, and her twin brother can't abide the dark. When Esther is conned by Jonah, a former friend, and he makes off with her list of things she could potentially be killed by, it starts a strange and beautiful friendship. <br /><br />Jonah is determined to help Esther surmount her fears, and challenges her to confront them - filming them as they go through the list. Unbeknownst to her, she is becoming a social media star… A likable and imaginative young adult novel, with interesting characters (including Death, who has a world-weary line of snappy but almost-compassionate rejoinders) and the stirrings of first love.</span>
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A new book from Pamela Allen is always going to be a treat, and this one is darling! A little boy and his mother pack a lunch, set out from Kirribilli to walk across the Bridge and go to the Botanic Gardens for the day. When they are there, they see an ibis caught up in a plastic bag, and with a lot of help, set it free. This is reminiscent of the well-loved Alexander's Outing and is a joyful portrait of the city with a quiet environmental message conveyed in simple rhythmic text and clean-lined illustrations - a book that will be enjoyed by resident and tourist alike!</span>
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Once, there was a small rhinoceros who wanted to see the big world. And although the other rhinos told her how she had a good life already with everything a rhino could need, still she listened to her own heart and built a boat. Despite all of the others' doubts, she sails away and sees more than she ever dreamed, until she returns home to share her tales: and perhaps kindle the spirit of enquiry in an even smaller rhinoceros. With gentle and happy illustrations in coloured pencil and watercolour by Leila Rudge, this is a sweet encouragement to step outside the everyday and discover the world for yourself. Ages 3-5</span>
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Henry and his nanny Gulsa are on their way to visit Henry's grandmother in hospital. When Gulsa gets caught up on her phone, Henry, who is bored, decides to find Grandma for himself. After asking at the information desk and not having any luck, he sets off through the hospital looking for her, meeting all sorts of people from patients to doctors. Quite a lot of text and with illustrations that repay close attention, this is a sophisticated picture book (originally from Germany) with a simple storyline that may have the side effect of demystifying hospitals and how they work. Lower primary ages.</span>
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<span style="color: #4e4644; font-size: x-large;"><b>Bruce Whatley</b></span></div>
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Whatley is known for his simple illustration styles (Diary of a Wombat etc) or impressionist style (Fire) but this book is completely different. The inevitable comparison will be with Shaun Tan's Arrival as it is a work of graphite on paper, although unlike that other masterpiece this book does have text. Rather surreal text, which allows the reader to fill in the gaps and construct the meaning for themselves. Ruben is a small, almost stunted figure, living alone in a threatening city, but one day he notices another small figure slipping in and out of the shadows, and gives chase. From such beginnings grow possibilities of change... Will appeal to anyone who admires the artistry of children's illustration.</span>
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Quil Medway is an orphan who lives with her high-flying, loving but distant, aunt. Packed off to a holiday camp, 11 year old Quil gets the oddest feeling as her train goes through a small town on the other side of the mountains, and before she has time to reconsider, she gets off. She's drawn to an old shop, and when a cheeky dog and the shop's owner appear, it's the start of her finding a home and the real feeling of family… Told with all the considerable charm you would expect from one of Australia's best-loved authors, this is a lovely read for upper primary ages.</span>
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Sparrow is in juvenile detention, and on an exercise off the Kimberley coast when the boat taking his group back to the mainland catches fire. In a split instant and despite the fear of saltwater crocodiles and sharks, he decides to escape. Reaching the shore and eluding his pursuers, Sparrow has to survive on his wits and determination not to go back. As the reader follows him in his quest for survival in what could be a hostile and unforgiving landscape, we also learn the life that Sparrow is so desperate to escape, and that the wilderness doesn't hold as many threats as his past. Weaving in themes of survival, resilience and environmental awareness, this is an interesting and powerful novel for readers 13+</span>
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A blend of fact and story, this picturebook is part of a series of titles about Australian animals. It follows a little koala as he has to leave his mother's territory, and find a home of his own. In a different font below the main text, factual information is given that explains what is happening and why. With beautifully soft and expressive illustrations by Julie Vivas, this gently educational book is aimed at newly confident readers who aren't quite ready for a serious book full of facts.</span>
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This is the final volume in the Thickety sequence, which has been one of my favourites! The Spider Queen is searching for the pieces of the first grimoire, and when she has them she will destroy the world out of sheer rage and spite. Kara and Taff need to find them before Rygoth does, but to do so will come at a dreadful cost. Kara must go back to the past to find the Princess who began the whole wickedness, and then unravel the web of lies and deceit to save those she loves, and those who trust in her. A satisfying conclusion to a clever series.</span>
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There are many A-Z books using Australian animals but this one is set apart by giving a handful of interesting facts on the featured creature (and by the distribution maps at the back of the book in case the young reader wants to know where they might find them!) Colourful slightly naïve and joyful illustrations show the animals in natural poses and simplified habitats. I rather liked that X stood for Crusader Bugs because the insects have a x-shaped cross on their backs! A book both useful and attractive, for ages 3-5. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her remarks in the Introduction and Editorial Notes amount to a mini biography. There are thirty pages of Explanatory Notes which, to me, just goes to show that Fitzgerald’s writing is now looked at in an historical context. This is a good time to remind you of <b>A. Scott Berg’s</b> book <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/Max-Perkins-Editor-of-Genius-9781471147043.do">Max Perkins: Editor of Genius</a></b> which has been reissued. I think a movie is on its way. Perkins was more than an editor – more a private counsellor and adviser not only to F.Scott Fitzgerald but to many other literary luminaries of that time including Hemingway and Thomas Wolfe. His own life was rather tempestuous also.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is a satire on a Particular Prominent Person and very funny. A sense of humour is needed as you follow the adventures of Prince Fracassus, heir to the Duchy of Origen and his tutor Professor Kolskeggur Probrius. Illustrations by Chris Riddell.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">We had a nice launching party at Abbey’s for a book about Ukrainian migrants by <b>Olga Chaplin</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> a member of a well-known family. It is called <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-man-from-talalaivka-a-story-of-love-life-and-loss-from-ukraine.do">The Man From Talalaivka: A Story of Love, Life and Loss from Ukraine</a></b>. A true story of a family cast off their farm by Stalin, sheltering from bombs in a Displaced Persons camp in Germany and finally making a new life in Australia. Very moving.
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There are two excellent new science books for children (and others).</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Robert Dessaix's new book, <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-pleasures-of-leisure.do">The Pleasures of Leisure</a>,</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> is sure to please his many fans. It is rather like having a desultory conversation with a witty friend about life and philosophy in a rather nice place. There are plenty of allusions and you will feel good that you recognise them. His voice comes through clear, honest and personal. He suggests you should cultivate a talent to just loaf about. A pleasure indeed.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My favourite amongst Robert’s other books is <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/mothers-disgrace-book-9780732297374.do"><b>A Mother’s Disgrace</b></a>, which is a classic of Australian autobiography, while other pieces include <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/night-letters-book-9780330359917.do"><b>Night Letters</b></a>, <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/as-i-was-saying.do"><b>As I Was Saying</b></a>, and <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/what-days-are-for-book-9780857989017.do"><b>What Days are For</b></a>. July will see new paperback editions of <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/arabesques-a-tale-of-double-lives-book-9781925589009.do"><b>Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives</b></a> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/twilight-of-love-travels-with-turgenev-book-9781925143980.do">Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev</a> and <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/corfu-a-novel-book-9781925143966.do" target="_blank">Corfu: A Novel</a></b>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Have you realised that <b>Donna Leon</b>'s latest book is out now?</span>
<span style="font-size: large;">I have not missed a single title and this is number twenty six. It is called <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/earthly-remains-book-9781785151378.do"><b>Earthly Remains</b></a>. She has been edging towards this subject for some time, showing her concern about what is happening to the Venetian lagoons. Commissario Brunetti too is showing signs of stress and takes off to spend time alone on a tiny island in the laguna, reading and rowing with an old fisherman who has a secret past.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Did you enjoy <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/my-name-is-lucy-barton-book-9780241248782.do">My Name is Lucy Barton</a></b> by <i>Pulitzer Prize</i> winner <b>Elizabeth Strout</b>?</span><span style="font-size: large;"> If so, you must now read <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/anything-is-possible-book-9780241287972.do"><b>Anything Is Possible</b></a> which takes us on a tour around the various relatives and fellow residents of Amash, Illinois. When I first looked at the chapter headings I thought this might be a collection of short stories. In a way it is as each character gets their place in the sun. Lucy Barton, now a famous writer in New York, comes home for a visit which is a good excuse for memories to be brought out and retold. Very satisfying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you are new to Elizabeth Strout please read <b>My Name is Lucy Barton</b> before you read this latest one. The other titles are<b> <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/olive-kitteridge-a-novel-in-stories-book-9781849831550.do">Olive Kitteridge</a></b>, <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-burgess-boys-book-9781471127380.do" target="_blank">The <b>Burgess Boys</b></a>, <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/amy-isabelle.do"><b>Amy & Isabelle</b></a> and <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/abide-with-me-book-9780743462280.do"><b>Abide with Me</b></a>. Upstairs in Language Book Centre you can find <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/mi-chiamo-lucy-barton.do"><b>Mi Chiamo Lucy Barton</b></a>. Remember if the stairs are a problem for you please ask one of our booksellers to show you the lift in the foyer.</span>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I am admirer of the work of writer and historian <b>Mark Dapin</b>.</span>
<span style="font-size: large;">He has written numerous things including a crime thriller, <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/king-of-the-cross-book-9780143572350.do"><b>King of the Cross</b></a> and a lovely story called <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/spirit-house-book-9780143572343.do"><b>Spirit House</b></a>, set in Bondi, about a boy’s relationship with his Jewish grandfather who had been a prisoner of war with the Japanese. Recently he has been the editor for <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/from-the-trenches.do"><b>From the Trenches: Best Anzac Writing of World War One</b></a> and the <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/penguin-book-of-australian-war-writing.do"><b>The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing</b></a> while <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/The-Nashos-War-9780670077052.do"><b>The Nasho’s War: Australian National Servicemen in Vietnam</b></a> won several awards. He has now been commissioned to produce a splendid book<b> <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/jewish-anzacs-australian-jews-in-the-military.do">Jewish Anzacs: Jews in the Australian Military</a></b>, 435 pages including photographs and index.</span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It has a Memorial Roll of all those who served from the Boer War to Vietnam and Afghanistan including an Honour Roll of those who made the supreme sacrifice. For the Jewish faith the act of Remembrance (zachor) is an important duty so I am sure this book will be coveted by many families. Despite the title Mark apologises that Anzacs from New Zealand are not included but this work is being done now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Did you watch a series on SBS about Scottish Manor Houses? </span><span style="font-size: large;">I think the Scottish Tourist Board must have had a hand in this? I was especially interested to see the huge difference in visitor numbers when the <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-da-vinci-code-book-9780552159715.do"><b>The Da Vinci Code</b></a> became such a huge bestseller. From just a few visitors to the Rosslyn Chapel suddenly hundreds were turning up each day. So I must remind you about the controversial original work published by Leigh, Baigent and Lincoln called <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-holy-blood-and-the-holy-grail.do"><b>The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail</b>.</a></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There was a court case about this – the authors claiming <b>Dan Brown</b> had used their book as a basis for his story. Interestingly both titles were issued by the same publisher. You can get <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/da-vinci-code-french-book-9782253001171.do"><b>the French edition of Da Vinci Code</b></a> upstairs at Language Book Centre.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">There is a King Arthur film starting now so I want to remind you of <b>T. H. White</b>’s famous epic <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-once-and-future-king-book-9780143111610.do"><b>The Once and Future King</b>.</a></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Historical fantasy writer <b>Mary Stewart</b> also wrote the four book <i>Merlin</i> series beginning with <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-crystal-cave-book-9781444737486.do">The Crystal Cave</a></b>, then <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-hollow-hills-book-9781444737509.do">The Hollow Hills</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-wicked-day-book-9781444737547.do">The Wicked Day</a></b> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-last-enchantment-book-9781444737523.do">The Last Enchantment</a></b>. Some of these might be out of print.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I am not a great fan of performance art but despite this I cannot miss a word of <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-museum-of-modern-love.do"><b>The Museum of Modern Love</b></a> </span><span style="font-size: large;">by <b>Heather Rose</b> which has recently won both the <i>Premier’s Award</i> for Fiction and the <i>Stella Prize</i>. The story revolves around a real event, one of <b>Marina Abramovic</b>’s famous events. This time it is called 'The Artist is Present' and is staged in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Marina sat for seventy five days at a small table with one chair opposite. No talking – just meeting of eyes. It became the hit of the town – people queued to sit and art circles were agog.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Birders will be all agog! There is a new <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-australian-bird-guide-book-9780643097544.do">Australian Bird Guide</a></b>, </span><span style="font-size: large;">published by CSIRO and with six authors and illustrators: Menkhorst, Rogers, Clarke, Davies, Marsaka and Franklin. According to Robyn Williams on the Science Show, who already has two other guides, this is a terrific achievement – ten years in the making. There are a few more species and digital imaging has allowed the illustrators to be even more precise and there is a huge digital database. Our resident birder Lindy Jones is probably fondling a copy right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>It doesn’t surprise me in the least </b></span><span style="font-size: large;">that Abbey’s has sold a great many copies of <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-word-detective-a-life-in-words-from-shenanigan-to-selfie-book-9781408706732.do" target="_blank">The Word Detective: <i>A Life in Words – from Serendipity to Selfie</i></a></b> by John Simpson, former Chief Editor of The Oxford English Dictionary, or more colloquially the OED.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not only are many of our customers wordy people, but here at Abbey’s we have a very special relationship with Oxford University Press, and also with Cambridge University Press. By special agreement, we have stocked every available title from these famous publishers. We have had a complete set of OED on our shelves, and in one magnificent moment even sold a leatherbound edition of the OED - I don’t think such a thing exists any more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the early days, we also had some of the limp fascicles that were published to keep people up to date while waiting for the real edition! Today you can subscribe to an online edition, which includes the Historical Thesaurus. You may even find that your library is a subscriber and you can access the OED there. Keep in mind the OED is a Historical Dictionary. Lexicographers search to find the first time a word was used - no simple task. The definition completes the task.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You will be amazed how much information is included in the online edition. Check it out for yourself. Meanwhile read this wonderful book, which is a mix of memoir and reference. John Simpson describes the work of the lexicographer and when he spies a tasty word, he takes time to digress and discuss just how this word was handled. So this is a book you can read bit by bit and enjoy the ride. Simpson uses his wry humour to describe his progress up the ranks in the dictionary underworld, culminating in the triumph of the online edition in March 2000. It is constantly updated. Have fun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">You can’t be interested in words and not know <b>David Crystal</b>. </span><span style="font-size: large;">His books are as entertaining as they are instructive. Recent titles include: <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/making-sense-the-glamorous-story-of-english-grammar-book-9780190660574.do" target="_blank">Making Sense: <i>The Glamorous Story of English Grammar</i></a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/making-a-point-the-pernickety-story-of-english-punctuation.do" target="_blank">Making a Point</a></b>, <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-story-of-english-in-100-words-book-9781846684289.do" target="_blank">The Story of English in 100 Words</a>,</b> and <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/spell-it-out-the-singular-story-of-english-spelling.do" target="_blank">Spell It Out</a></b>. More interesting to customers at Abbey’s could be <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/oxford-illustrated-shakespeare-dictionary.do" target="_blank">The Oxford Illustrated Shakespearean Dictionary</a></b>, written with his son <b>Ben Crystal</b>, or <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-oxford-dictionary-of-original-shakespearean-pronunciation.do" target="_blank">The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation</a></b> or <b><a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/think-on-my-words-exploring-shakespeares-language-book-9781107617681.do" target="_blank">Think on My Words: <i>Explaining Shakespeare’s Words</i></a></b>. You can find these in our Shakespearean Studies section, where you will also find the plays, sonnets, cribs and audio books. Two more unusual titles you will find at Abbey’s are <a href="https://www.abbeys.com.au/book/begat-the-king-james-bible-and-the-english-language-book-9780199695188.do" target="_blank"><b>Begat: <i>The King James Bible and the English Language</i></b></a> and <a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/tyndales-bible-saint-matthews-gospel-read-in-the-original-pronunciation-by-david-crystal.do" target="_blank"><b>Tyndale’s Bible: <i>St Matthews Gospel Read in the Original Pronunciation</i></b></a> (audio book).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />It’s not often that a novel is re-published in hardback fifty years after first publication.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-watch-tower-collectors-edition.do" target="_blank">The Watch Tower</a></b>, Elizabeth Harrower’s distressing story of the psychological enslavement of two unfortunate sisters abandoned by their mother, is now available in a special hardback Collector’s Edition from Text Publishing. And to make it even more collectable, Elizabeth has been in to Abbey’s to sign copies of her book. It is a brilliant story of marital enslavement and the struggle to retain one’s sense of self. Both the hardback and paperback are available in <i>Text Classics</i>. Both include an introduction by Joan London.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I enjoyed reading John Meacham’s biography of the 41st President of the United States, </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/destiny-and-power-the-american-odyssey-of-george-herbert-walker-bush-book-9780812979473.do" target="_blank">Destiny and Power: <i>The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush</i></a></b>. I guess George H W is one of the last of that American class of true gentlemen, always working for the good of their country and caring for their people – Presidents like Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Eisenhower. Who else could have had such preparation to become President? Member of Congress, Member of the Senate, Head of the CIA, Head of the Republican Party, Envoy to China and Vice President for two terms to the great hero Ronald Reagan. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well brought up, Bush was careful never to upstage Ronnie, although Nancy Reagan kept an eagle eye on everyone. Bush became a Texan businessman after service in the Air Force during the Second World War, but was brought up a New Englander – expected to succeed, but never ever to boast and always to be kind. One amazing impression I have gained is that American elections are a huge slog and cost enormous amounts of money! Where does it all come from? One more thing… although this is a very fat book (640 pages plus 240 pages of index, notes, bibliography and acknowledgements), it is a pleasure to read. Beautiful paper and nice typeface, it is best laid flat on a table while you read.</span><br />
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<b><br /></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I really enjoyed <b>Mark Colvin’s</b> book <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/Light-and-Shadow-Memoirs-of-a-Spys-Son-9780522870893.do" target="_blank">Light and Shadow: <i>Memoirs of a Spy’s Son</i></a></b>. </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">It would be useful to read if you were also to see the terrific play at the Belvoir Theatre called, unexpectedly, <i>Mark Colvin’s Kidney</i>. Mark Colvin is the ABC’s longest serving and most influential radio broadcaster. He still fronts PM. His memoir focuses especially on his relationship with his somewhat distant but loved father, a British diplomat. He discovers his father is also a spy, which explains how he came to spend his school holidays with his father in Outer Mongolia! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Have you noticed the photos of visiting authors which Craig takes and includes in our newsletters?</span><span style="font-size: large;"> We plan to create a place to show these permanently. I was surprised at one visiting author whose name is <b>Malachy Tallack</b>. He comes from the Shetland Islands, so I thought he was a bit out of his way! He is also a singer/songwriter. His first book, <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/sixty-degrees-north-around-the-world-in-search-of-home-book-9781846973420.do" target="_blank">Sixty Degrees North: <i>Around the World in Search of Home</i></a></b>, was greatly admired as both a memoir and a travel log. The 60th parallel touches lower Norway, Sweden and Finland, Greenland, Alaska and the great spaces of Canada and Russia. He describes these places in beautiful clear prose. Not surprisingly, he ends up in the Shetland Islands. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">His energetic dissection of financial booms and busts, always peopled with eccentric characters and amazing costs have all been bestsellers. Wall Street workers are usually anxious to know what he will write about next! This time prepare to be surprised – for <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-undoing-project-a-friendship-that-changed-the-world.do" target="_blank">The Undoing Project: <i>A Friendship that Changed the World</i></a></b> is about psychology (and of course mathematics). I am beginning to believe that all the problems of the world could be solved with an algorithm! It is a pity we don’t all speak that language.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">This time Lewis is writing about two seemingly disparate Israeli scholars</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">, <b>Amos Tversky</b> and <b>Daniel Kahneman,</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> who together worked on how we make decisions, especially in uncertain conditions. Eventually, after the death of Amos, Kahneman was awarded a </span><i style="font-size: large;">Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences</i><span style="font-size: large;"> (which he says was mostly for work he had done with Amos). This is not a book to be dipped into at bedtime – pay attention and work it out!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In typical Michael Lewis style, it is filled with anecdotes and character assessments, and somehow you can manage to understand the developments in cognitive psychology and how we make decisions, how we spend, how mistakes can be made in medicine or in basketball even.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">Michael Lewis has thirteen other titles to his name, beginning with <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/liars-poker.do" target="_blank">Liar’s Poker</a></b> and including <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/flash-boys-cracking-the-money-code.do" target="_blank">Flash Boys</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-big-short-inside-the-doomsday-machine-book-9780141043531.do" target="_blank">The Big Short</a></b>, <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/moneyball-the-art-of-winning-an-unfair-game-book-9780393324815.do" target="_blank">Moneyball</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-new-new-thing-how-some-man-youve-never-heard-of-just-changed-your-life.do" target="_blank">The New New Thing</a></b> as some of the books which have been made into movies. Terrific, entertaining reading, but this time you’ll have to work at it.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/whole-wild-world-a-memoir.do" target="_blank"><br /></a><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Here are two recommendations for readers interested in Literary Fiction.</span><span style="font-size: large;"> If your interest is in the writers of the thirties such as </span><b style="font-size: large;">F. Scott Fitzgerald</b><span style="font-size: large;">, </span><b style="font-size: large;">Thomas Wolfe</b><span style="font-size: large;"> and </span><b style="font-size: large;">Ernest Hemingway</b><span style="font-size: large;"> you will of course be interested to read about their legendary editor at Scribers. </span><b style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/genius-book-9781471147043.do" target="_blank">Max Perkins: <i>Editor of Genius</i></a></b><span style="font-size: large;"> by A Scott Berg is full of fascinating and useful information, not only about these famous authors but also about the world of literature generally. </span><b style="font-size: large;">Hendrix Willem van Loon</b><span style="font-size: large;"> even gets a mention. Who has heard of him these days? (He wrote </span><b style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-story-of-mankind-book-9780871408655.do" target="_blank">The Story of Mankind</a></b><span style="font-size: large;"> and other popular treatises).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The second book is by Elizabeth Strout and is called My Name is Lucy Barton.</b> The novels by Elizabeth Strout are the sort of steady sellers which are usually recommended by one reader to another. If you don’t remember her name perhaps you remember the name <b>Olive Kitteridge</b>, which was the title of one of her earlier remarkable books and which won the <i>Pulitzer Prize</i>. Don’t miss this new one. It was short-listed for the <i>Man Booker Prize</i> and I think it should win.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The story concerns a young woman whose rural childhood is indeed poverty-stricken, both emotionally and financially, but who later becomes a successful writer, wife and mother although, as her mother-in-law says, “she comes from nothing”. Heartbreakingly true writing. Two more of her books are <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/amy-isabelle.do" target="_blank">Amy & Isabelle</a></b> and <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/the-burgess-boys-book-9781471127380.do" target="_blank">The Burgess Boys</a></b>. I’m going to read them now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If you’ve been an Abbey’s customer for a long time</span><span style="font-size: large;"> you probably know we didn’t have a <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/shop/category-search.do?name=sport*" target="_blank">Sports section</a></b>, despite intermittent calls for such stock. This has changed now and there is a Sports section near the information counter at the front of the store. I became aware of this when I wanted a book given a terrific review by Michael Heyward, the publisher at Text Publishing. It is called <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/string-theory-david-foster-wallace-on-tennis.do" target="_blank">String Theory: <i>David Foster Wallace on Tennis</i></a></b> with an introduction by John Jeremiah Sullivan. It is a very nice edition, green hardback with a fantastic photo of a tennis ball for the end papers - it would make a lovely gift for tennis fiends. There are five essays including a very funny one on David Foster Wallace’s own junior tennis career in the windy state of Illinois. Judging angles comes into it, so once again mathematics is useful. The final essay on <b>Roger Federer</b> is a gem, as is Roger Federer.</span><br />
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<b><br /></b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">David Foster Wallace was famous for his novel <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/infinite-jest.do" target="_blank">Infinite Jest</a></b>, </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">set in a drug rehabilitation centre in Boston, but he became more famous for his essays as a cultural critic. Two we have in stock are <a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/a-supposedly-fun-thing-ill-never-do-again.do" target="_blank"><b>A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again</b></a> or <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/consider-the-lobster.do" target="_blank">Consider the Lobster: <i>Essays and Arguments</i></a></b>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m now going to read <b><a href="http://www.abbeys.com.au/book/destiny-and-power-the-american-odyssey-of-george-herbert-walker-bush-book-9780812979473.do" target="_blank">Destiny and Power: <i>The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush</i></a></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> by Jon Meacham, winner of the <i>Pulitzer Prize</i> and a <i>New York Times</i> bestseller. This looks fascinating. Lots of photographs, index, bibliography and 169 pages of notes. The blurb says “this is an affecting portrait of a man who, driven by destiny and duty, forever sought, ultimately, to put the country first” and goes on to say “should be required reading for every president-elect”. I don’t suppose it is much use offering it to Donald Trump</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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