Carpentaria’s portrait of life in the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance centres on
the powerful Phantom family, whose members are the leaders of the Pricklebush people,
and their battles with old Joseph Midnight’s tearaway Eastend mob on the one hand, and
the

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EVER GET THE FEELING that technology is taking over your life and not asking you first? When you’ve mislaid that important file or can’t connect your new camera, do you just want to hurl your computer out of the window? When your kids / friends / grandparents

Jan Cornall, Singing Srengenge is a new CD of jazz poetry written by Indonesian poet, Sitok Srengenge, composed and sung by Australian writer/singer, Jan Cornall and arranged and produced by Indonesian jazz pianist, Imel Rosalin.
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Set in the artisan hill town of Ubud, between bomb one and bomb two, Jan Cornall’s humorous and insightful novel, Take Me To Paradise, explores notions of paradise and a modern woman’s search for meaning and passion in a post 9/11 world. Published by Saritaksu.

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Join a host of internationally acclaimed writers including, Anita Desai, Madhur Jaffrey, William Dalrymple, Ziauddin Sardar and Suketu Mehta, as they take you on a magic carpet ride of exotic destinations and literary journeys.

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