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  • Operation Sustainable Human

    “[This book] is a straight-talking, clearly referenced, scientific guide. It will not pretend that the climate crisis is not all that bad nor will it propose that simply remembering to turn off the lightbulb is sufficient climate action. It will tell it like it is. And it will only offer action items that make a…

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  • The Canterville Ghost

    “It is very wrong to kill any one.” “Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!”

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  • Ghostly Stories

    Two ghost stories from the often-underrated voice of Celia Fremlin

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  • Sydney to Seoul

    Recipes from John Torode’s travels in Australia and the Far East

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  • No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference

    The UK are in full swing of the Extinction Rebellion protests at the moment, and this is the time (though it should’ve started much earlier) to educate ourselves and start putting pressure on those who can actually make a difference.

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  • Publisher Review and GIVEAWAY

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  • Conversations With Friends

    “You live through certain things before you understand them. You can’t always take the analytical position.”

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  • Day 3, Edinburgh International Book Festival, Eleanor Gordon-Smith & Nesrine Malik

    By Megan Thomas It has taken me long enough, hasn’t it? But I didn’t want to bombard you, readers (mom), with the whole experience in one go – it’s all about strategic posts, you see. Or at least, that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. My final event at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

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  • The Drover’s Wives

    Ryan O’Neill’s 101 retellings of the Australian classic short story, The Drover’s Wife by Henry Lawson.

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  • Heartburn

    “That’s the catch about betrayal, of course: that it feels good, that there’s something immensely pleasurable about moving from a complicated relationship which involves minor atrocities on both sides to a nice, neat, simple one where one person has done something so horrible and unforgivable that the other person is immediately absolved of all the…

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