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		<title>A Bend in the River &#8211; VS Naipaul</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wikipedia image entitled &#8220;The Congo River near Mossaka&#8221; I happen to be writing a collection of stories based on a trip I made across Africa some eighteen years ago. One of the stories, ‘The River’, is about a pirogue trip up the then Zaire River (before and since, the River Congo). This is one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheap as ebooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:25:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fascinating report on ebook prices in UK. http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/aug/05/kindle-bookstore-cheapest-option What you notice, straight away, is that Kindle books are cheapest, especially compared to Apple&#8217;s offering, iBooks. So let&#8217;s think this through. I have assumed that that iPad users would only read books from iBooks. But now that Kindle offers an iPad app that allows users to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New flowers in the Kindle garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hankering after a new e-reader for a while and this week I made the plunge. My partner has a Kindle 2 and it&#8217;s a handsome machine. Good e-ink display, fast page turn, sleek design  especially in its cute cover. Well, I was thinking about a Kindle 2, but I knew there was another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Like Cannons Pointing at God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 03:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This creative non-fiction piece is to be published in Arcade Publications&#8216; Nth Degree, the 2010 Anthology from AAWP, the Australian Association of Writing Programs. According to the editors, &#8220;The anthology will include a foreword by Brian Castro and be released in November 2010. It will retail for $20 through independent bookstores, the publisher&#8217;s website, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phoney young narrators</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 01:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog post on the subject of the Young Narrator on the Guardian&#8217;s Books site by Australian writer Evan Maloney. Includes my choices of Young Narrators (Huck Finn, Holden Caulfield and Christopher Boone) and also some others which perhaps do not strictly fit into the category, because either they&#8217;re older or they turn out to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bartering and the story of Fanny</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[A Bit of Fun]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The word barter is completely misunderstood by many people using it. It means something quite different to what they think. How could this have come about? In the age of online dictionaries, where the meanings of hundreds of thousands of words are at our fingertips, why is an incorrect usage of this cheerful and useful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Beevor and books on war</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a fan of books on war. There. I’ve said it. Actually I haven’t read many since I was about fifteen years old, but I am still partial to a browse in the Military section of the bookshop every now and then. Which might be rather strange for a committed pacifist who believes that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 History Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a writer of history, you might be interested in the 2010 History Festival &#8220;Writing the Past&#8221; at the NSW Writers&#8217; Centre, Sat 13th March. All kinds of writers from novellists to academics and professional historians will be there and there are panels on historical fiction, writing politics and true crime, memoir and individual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Reader</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my first e-reader, a BeBook, bought at the beginning of this year and still going strong. It is a re-badged Hanlin V3 (now available in Australia from a leading retailer) and it runs on Linux software (the free operating system competitor to Apple and Microsoft). The important thing for me was that it wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dog Boy by Eva Hornung</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When does a short story become a novel? I&#8217;m not looking for an answer like &#8220;when it&#8217;s a novella&#8221; or one that involves numbers of pages or words. Rather, I&#8217;m interested in process: how an idea for a story, a story that could fill say five or ten thousand words (well within the classic definition [...]]]></description>
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