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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
Goodreads Author
Born
in Perth, Australia
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July 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/martinchambers
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How I became the Mr Big of People Smuggling
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2014
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5 editions
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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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| Truth is a crime novel written by a writer at the peak of form, a writer who credits the reader with intelligence. It might be said that in reading crime one must pay attention. Small clues, red herrings, writers tricks to tell us both what has happe ...more | |
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| This is a good story well told and I think best read in ignorance of any historical truth in either the characters or the history. Because there is a difficulty basing a fiction upon the real. People and their behaviors are far too complex to inhabit ...more | |
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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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