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After a long and very enjoyable holiday break spent devouring both ebooks and paper books, I’m coming into 2012 refreshed and well-read. I’m finding demolishing books even easier than normal, as now I can take a stack of them with me wherever I go on my tiny red (well, pink) Sony Ereader. I’ve had the [...]

When did you last read a book you knew nothing about by an author you’d never heard of? If you’re anything like me, recommendations, reviews and revisits to favourite authors past play a big role in your reading choices. So when a colleague who reads a book a week told me back in April 2007 [...]

Breaking out the travel guide  is a great way to pass the time plotting and planning your dream vacation until you’re actually there. But many guidebooks either assume that readers are either wealthy beyond belief or willing to walk ten miles to save 20 cents on dinner; it’s all 5 star hotels at one end [...]

While writing is often seen as a lonely profession, some writers buck the trend and team up. I caught up with half of Cate Kendall to ask her a few questions about co-writing, creating psuedonyms and lampooning yummy mummies. Cate Kendall is actually a pseudonym for the writing team Lisa Blundell and Michelle Hamer. Michelle, [...]