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Prologue
Anno Domini 1377
Bowls of dark royal blood lay beneath the bed, forgotten by the...
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Prologue
The majestic ship creaked and groaned; its sails rippled, fat with wind. Days from land, it split...
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One
An eagle soared, high in the hard, clear sky.
The traveller, dusty, battered from the road...
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So you want to be a model?
I've lived and breathed the modelling industry for over thirty years, and...
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The Outback is a definitive part of what makes Australia such a unique place, just as the people who live there add...
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Introduction
Spending my formative years on a banana farm in Queensland really gave my imagination lots of...
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I. The Period
It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was...
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I can't breathe. I'm choking. The more I try to swallow, the more I can feel my throat close up. I gasp and...
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Introduction
In 2001, the first edition of this book was published; since then, little has changed, except...
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Introduction
Writing a cookbook always seemed like a daunting prospect to me. Not because of the work...
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Prologue
Kellie
Newcastle. NSW
Sunday, 24 August 2008
Oh god, I missed...
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'Annabelle?'
Everyone except Dr Allen seemed to be looking at me and I realised that he must have...
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JFK’s Last Hundred Days
Thurston Clarke
Kennedy woke to hear George Thomas knocking gently on his...
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 Introduction
Writing in British Vogue in 1979, Angela Carter noted that 'there's a whole European...
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Introduction
Over the years I have worked in the far reaches of Australia, designing and creating gardens...
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FREE RECIPE FROM SAVE WITH JAMIE: SQUASH & SPINACH PASTA ROTOLO
Rotolo is definitely one of the more...
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A Season in Paradise
I find him in Empangeni. My father lies on his back at the edge of the sugar-cane...
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Every author, I suppose, has in mind a setting in which readers of his or her work could benefit from having read it...
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 In Zulu there is a saying, ‘Ngibanjwe ngezinyoni’ – I have been taken captive by birds. It indicates...
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Friday 24 September 2010
‘You are under arrest . . .’
Oh God, no, this can’t be...
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