For me, music is still the food of life and books remain the great reservoir of imagination and insight, ie the good stuff for us all to draw on. I'm not listening or reading as much as I'd like but here’s a sample.
BOOKS
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Zeitoun, Dave Eggers
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Jackson's Track, Carolyn Landon and Daryl Tonkin
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The Boat, Nam Le (Winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Fiction category)
- People of the Book, Geraldine Brooks
- The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island, Chloe Hooper
- Cloudstreet, Tim Winton
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Jamaica, Malcolm Knox
- Remembering Babylon, David Malouf
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The Lost Boys, Sam de Brito
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A Fraction of the Whole, Steve Toltz
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The Bookseller of Kabul, Asne Seierstad
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Raindance: Australia's longest summer, A C Flanagan
- Other Country, Stephen Scourfield
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Harpoon: Into the Heart of Whaling, Andrew Darby
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The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama
CDs
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Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Gurrumul
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Tyrone Noonan, I Believe
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The Millionaires, Sentimental Horses
- Perry Keyes, The Last Ghost Train Home
- Josh Pyke, Memories & Dust
- John Butler Trio, Grand National
- Something For Kate, California
Lists