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What’s the best book you’ve read lately? sale, so purchase your dream Susie Robinson of Barwon Heads was the I have the bad habit of reading bits of destination travel guide at Deborah Robertson follows up her acclaimed winner of the trip for two to India that we various books at the same time – appar- any Readings shop for 25% Careless from 2006 with Sweet Old World ran in the December/January edition of the ently this makes me a 'polychron' – but less this month. (Vintage, PB, Normally $32.95, Our special Readings Monthly in conjunction with On all it really does is make me forget Please note offer not valid online. price $27.95), which is a love story with a the Go Tours and Air Mauritius. when I read what. The most recent twist, for it is the male lead character who ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE Lorraine Ellis of Collingwood was the win- book I remember powering through is longing for kids and a family! It’s already ner of a Movida Masterclass with Frank (almost) in one go was Wild Coast: garnering some tremendous word-of-mouth. FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL Travels on South America’s Untamed 7 – 25 MARCH Camorra in the MoVida Aqui Kitchen that we ran in our November newsletter thanks Edge by John Gimlette, but equally Also hard to overlook will be that fine literary Come each March, local Francophiles to Murdoch Books. fascinating was Ferran: The Inside Story man-about-town – and former resident of abandon themselves to a frenzy of cinematic of El Bulli and the Man who Reinvented Belfast – Chris Flynn, with his debut novel, gluttony when the annual Alliance Française We hope the winners of these competitions Food by Colman Andrews. A Tiger in Eden (Text, PB, $22.95). Dubbed French Film Festival rolls into town. Now inspire you to enter more of our fabulous ‘in the anti-tradition of The Beach and in its 23rd year, this glorious event screens competitions. What’s the strangest experience you’ve had Trainspotting’ by his publishers, it features an the latest movies from France and, for an all in a bookshop? Irish thug called Billy Montgomery causing Apart from having very large Che Gue- mayhem (and finding grace?) in 90s Thai- vara hardcover biographies thrown at land. Do look out for the promotional beer my head and resuscitating narcoleptics coasters on our shop counters to coincide in the gift book section, my all-time with St Patrick’s Day! best anecdote has to be when an elderly gentleman brought a copy of the classic New novels from Paddy O’Reilly, Simon Western High Noon to the counter. Cleary and Robert Power round out a typi- Upon remarking that it was a classic of cally strong month for Oz fiction. On the the genre, he proceeded to inform me: international stage, we benefit this month ‘It’s not for me, it’s for the dogs.’ (His from the now-annual Adelaide Writers’ Fes- two Great Danes had their own TV tival bringing some of the best writers from room). ‘They don't like watching SBS abroad to our shores. A particular highlight with me, so I have to get them some- is Ron Rash, the acclaimed American short- thing they like.’ I was speechless. story writer and novelist, who is here simulta- neously with his new novel The Cove (Text, What’s the best experience you’ve had in PB, $29.95). Also noteworthy is one of the a bookshop? local participants – the much-loved Robert Meeting Michael Palin at a Readings Dessaix – who I’m sure is in as typically Hawthorn event. Asking him how engaging form as ever with a collection of many takes of the fish-slapping dance essays entitled As I Was Saying (Vintage, PB, he had to do in Monty Python. One of $27.95). ‘A swirling conversation with the the more surreal moments one has in a reader on everything from travel to dogs and workplace! cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness’, according to his publisher. What was your favourite book as a kid? Oslo Davis www.oslodavis.com Although when I was a kid it was Finally, there may be many of you in these mostly about ‘the Tintin’ (thanks for political times who are reaching for the mute nothing, Spielberg & Jackson), I find button on your televisions. Even so, perhaps it virtually impossible to choose one veteran journalist George Megalogenis’s new adventure above any other, so I’d have book The Australian Moment(Viking, PB, to say that when I was very young it Normally $32.95, Our special price $29.95) was Sendak’s Outside Over There or will bring some timely perspective, and even Buy two Routledge Ungerer’s The Three Robbers, and later give cause for pride in our national achieve- Stevenson’s Kidnapped, by which time ments over the last 40 years. Using the inge- Classics and receive I’d discovered my father’s library of 70s nious modus operandi of interviewing former paperbacks and was reading everything prime ministers about how they assess, with a third free* I could reach, even though I only really hindsight, the achievements of other PMs understood every third word. High- * Lowest-priced book will be free of charge. of their generation, it seems destined to be a lights include Papillon, Down and Out landmark work on Australian politics. Offer only available at Readings Carlton, in March, while stocks last. Not available online. in Paris and London and the naughty Martin Shaw is from Readings Carlton bits in Tropic of Cancer. CINEMA NOVA RECOMMENDS Visit the Cinema Nova Bar RALPH GERARD JESSICA VANESSA Joseph Gordon Levitt Seth Rogen Anjelica Huston FIENNES BUTLER CHASTAIN REDGRAVE Jonathan Levine (The Wackness) directs Will Reiser’s CORIOLANUS edgy comedy of a young Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in a gritty modern 380 LYGON ST CARLTON man’s brush with mortality. / www.cinemanova.com.au 50 50 interpretation of Shakespeare's tale of a country at war. 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