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Martin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Martin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Martin Chambers
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in Perth, Australia
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July 2013
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How I became the Mr Big of People Smuggling
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2014
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Devil's Refuge
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Walking with the Poor
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Three Short Stories
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2010
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2 editions
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Bulk Goon
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2012
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2 editions
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Car Wrecks of the Great Central Road
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2012
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3 editions
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Shark Bay
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2012
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3 editions
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island life
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2006
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The canoe and kayak guide to Western Australia
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2013
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Word Stew
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2012
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Martin’s Recent Updates
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| Firstly, I'd like to tell you my novel 'How I became the Mr Big of People Smuggling' is a better book than 'American Dirt'. Go read it and tell me. In truth I'd be very happy if I wrote a book as good as this one. (Mine is also available as an audio ...more | |
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My wife recently bought for me, as a private joke, the illustrated edition of Dan Brown's 'Da Vinci Code'. The hardcover collectors' edition that she got for $3 at an op shop. She probably paid too much. The relevance here is that Dan Brown's novel is ...more |
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| I see from the Goodreads tag here I first read this in 2013. Recently we listened to the audio book that took all of the distance between Hobart and Perth to complete. Probably the best Audio book production I have heard, read amazingly well by Humph ...more | |
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Firstly, let me tell you Becky Chambers is unrelated to me although we share the same surname. I wish we shared the same writing skills. Google will tell you that Becky Chambers is a science fiction writer and it is true some other of her works are se ...more |
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| There is an aphorism that truth is stranger than fiction. Maybe, but it is the job of a fiction writer to make the unbelievable appear real and maybe writers are generally so good at this that it leads to such sayings. Here, however, is a master. Rhe ...more | |
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| I don't want to set this review as a spoiler, although you might already know the famous photograph that is the spark for this story, so the best I can say is that Emma Donoghue writes a masterful snapshot of the complex intersection of characters th ...more | |
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| The random finding of a horse picture in a garage sale leads Geraldine Brooks to explore the history of perhaps America's greatest racehorse and we are soon into a theme of equality and racism. It is a very enjoyable read but I do have on one complai ...more | |
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Upon a theme of human freedom and how we constrain ourselves by the stuff of civility and just perhaps the desire to mirror in the individual what I will call 'The American Experiment'. In the vein of South American epics this book follows the fortun ...more |
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Upon a theme of human freedom and how we constrain ourselves by the stuff of civility and just perhaps the desire to mirror in the individual what I will call 'The American Experiment'. In the vein of South American epics this book follows the fortun ...more |
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| I read this book as the fourth part of a quartet of happenings. First, there was 'A year of Wonders' by Geraldine Brooks, a story set during the great plague. Then, 'The Pull of the Stars' by Emma Donoghue set during what we now call the 'Spanish Flu ...more | |
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