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Dish

While procrastinating from a quite important deadline, I often find myself doing what I always do when something really, really needs to get done...

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Question 7

In the winter of 2012, against my better judgement and for reasons that were not entirely to do with writing—much as I said they were—and which even now are not clear to me, I visited the site of Ohama Camp, Japan, where my father had once been interned.

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Gin A Tasting Course

Gin has a long and sometimes rather murky past.

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The Year of the Locust

I once went to kill a man.

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The Land of Milk and Honey

I fled to that country because I would have gone anywhere, done anything, for one last taste of green sharp enough to pierce the caul of my life.

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Big Mouth

‘Why have you got two birth certificates? Are you adopted?’

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4am

'What if I never love myself?'

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No Brainer: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (18)

The most popular books were from this series called Commando Crocodile, and no matter how many copies she bought, Ms. Masie couldn't keep them on the shelves.

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Going Infinite

Most of the people who went to work for Sam Bankman-Fried ended up in jobs for which they were not obviously qualified, and Natalie Tien was no exception.

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The Year I Met My Brain

At first, I was pretty embarrassed by the way I found out I have ADHD.

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Food for Life

Writing this book felt like starting my own version of Phileas Fogg’s adventure, setting off in his hot air balloon;

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This Camp Is Doomed

When asked if they’d heard of Camp Buttress, the locals of the nearest town would answer that, yes.

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Fearless

Don’t you dare say anything to anyone.

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Hunt on Dark Waters

Once upon a time, the realms used to be much closer to each other.

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The Secret

Keith Bridgeman was alone in his room when he closed his eyes.

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Chalice of the Gods

Look, I didn’t want to be a high school senior.

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The Diary of a CEO

Law 1 - Fill Your Five Buckets In The Right Order

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Black Sheep

George Wakefield was an enigmatic figure to most, even something of a mystery.

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Alan Joyce and Qantas

Most Australians, if asked to name the CEOs of two Australian companies, would probably fall short by one – but the one they would know is the CEO of Qantas.

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Inheritance

The sound was stabbing, slicing, shivering, like metal scraping against stone.

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Brisingr

Daybreak was ?fteen minutes away when Eragon rolled up right.

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Eldest

Saphira's breathing quickened, and she opened her eyes, yawning expansively.

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Eragon

Eragon knelt in a bed of trampled reed grass and scanned the tracks with a practiced eye.

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Love Match

The humid January air was thick with tension.

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