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Small-scale wool makers launch new trademark to recognise 100 per cent Australian-produced fibre

A group of wool makers launches a new trademark to recognise textile producers whose homegrown fibre is 100 per cent Australian from the farm right through to the finished product.





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Cox Plate: Kings Will Dream returns to Moonee Valley just 12 months after fracturing pelvis

After fracturing his pelvis and nearly bleeding out after last year's Cox Plate, Kings Will Dream is set to write another chapter in an unbelievable comeback story at Moonee Valley, during a fortnight of intense scrutiny over the treatment of horses within the racing industry.




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Driver Lorraine Nicholson realised four women killed in Navarre crash were 'probably grandmothers' as well, court hears

A jury hears of the moment the woman accused of causing a crash that killed four people in western Victoria realised the deceased were "probably grandmothers" as well.





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Vintage tractor collection goes to auction in the Victorian Otways as owner retires

'You don't have to be a scientist to work on them': Vintage tractors, some more than 80-years-old go under the hammer, attracting buyers from around Australia.







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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

774 Listener Reviewer Goran Stolevski looks at this year's Palme d'or winner




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The SS: A New History

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader.




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The Book of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information by David Wallechinsky and Amy Wallace.

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader




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Why the West Rules - For Now by Ian Morris

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader.




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Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - And Why We Believe Them Anyway by Dan Gardner

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader. You can hear Dan Gardner being interviewed by Warren Boland on Sunday 13th Weekends with Warren.





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Marathon: how one battle changed Western civilisation by Richard A. Billows

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader.




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The Rascally Cake by Jeanne Willis and Korky Paul

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader




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Shadow Force by Matt Lynn

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader




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The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam

Rob Minshull produces Weekend with Warren and is an avid reader.



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Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson

Rob Minshull produces Weekend with Warren and is an avid reader.




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Review: Paris Dreaming by Anita Heiss

It's 'Koori chick lit' for the very first time; A romantic romp in the vein of Sex and the City with some big plusses - a little reluctance for love and an Indigenous Australian central character in the international art world.



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Review: 'The Promise of Iceland' by Kari Gislason

Kari Gislason concedes it would have been very easy to write a sad memoir about his relationship with his dad - but he made a concerted effort not to go down that track.



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Coast FM Book Club Review: An Outback Life by Mary Groves

Author Mary Groves has lived the great outback dream and knows how tough it can be.



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Weekend Bookworm: Born to Run

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The Warsaw Anagrams by Richard Zimler

Rob Minshull produces Weekends with Warren and is an avid reader.




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Review: 'V8 Supercars: The Whole Story' by Gordan Lomas

Gordan Lomas



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Ella Kazoo will NOT brush her hair by Lee Fox and Cathy Wilcox

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Review: Kimberley Freeman's 'Wildflower Hill'

Award winning children's writer Kim Wilkins assumes a pseudonym as she turns her hand to 'chick literature' with Wildflower Hill.



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Review: Michael Robotham's 'Bleed for Me'

Coast FM Book Club reviews Robotham's 'Bleed for Me'



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Review: Ramona Koval's 'Speaking Volumes'

Rare insights into leading authors with Radio National's Ramona Koval.



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Weekend Bookworm: The Retribution by Val McDermid

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Review: 'Surfari' by Tim Baker

Tim Baker



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Review: 'Silent Fear' by Katherine Howell

Katherine Howell



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Running With Scissors

Running With Scissors is a humourous yet disturbing account of his observations of the unhinged world he now inhabits.




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Review: 'Freudian Slip' by Marion von Adlerstein

Marion von Adlerstein



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Review: 'The Raven's Heart' by Jesse Blackadder

Jesse Blackadder



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Review: 'Living with Max' by Chloe Maxwell

Chloe Maxwell



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Review: 'Just Doomed' by Andy Griffiths

Andy Griffiths



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Review: 'Wotan's Daughter' by Richard Davis

Gold Coast author Richard Davis says the time is ripe to re-evaluate the life of Australian opera singer, Marjorie Lawrence.



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Review: 'Tamlyn' by James Moloney

Sitxteen-year-old Silvermay is in love with a wizard called Tamlyn - who comes from a race that only care about themselves.



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Review: 'The Mind of a Thief' by Patti Miller

Patti Miller



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Clare Calvet's Book of the Week: Country Girl - a Memoir

COUNTRY GIRL A memoirby Edna O'Brien