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BEST SELLERS 1 Dance With Dragons George R R Martin, HarperCollins Relive the Pies’ 2 Stolen Life Jaycee Dugard 3 Jamie’s 30-minute Meals Jamie Oliver, Penguin Books 4 Game of Thrones greatest wins George R R Martin, HarperCollins 5 Go the Fk to Sleep Adam Manbach

FICTION 1 Game of Thrones George R R Martin, HarperCollins 2 Water For Elephants Sara Gruen, Allen & Unwin 3 Clash of Kings George R R Martin, HarperCollins 4 Fall of Giants PHIL O’BRIEN Ken Follett, Pan Macmillan Territory author/muso/ comedian/larrakin 5 The Help Kathryn Stockett What are you reading? This could be big by blues musician Don Morrison. It’s all BIOGRAPHY about the rigours of playing pub gigs and getting ripped off by 1 The Happiest Refugee dodgy promoters and just the Anh Do, Allen & Unwin general struggle of being a muso. Stories I only Tell My Friends In my younger pub-rock days I 2 had my fair share of dramas as Rob Lowe well — not that I can remember 3 Hare With The Amber Eyes much of it. I never made much Edmund De Waal, Random House money — but had some great piss 4 Marching Powder ups.. Rusty Young, Pan Macmillan What will you read next? 5 Conversations With Myself The Cattle King by Ion Iodress, Nelson Mandela, Pan Macmillan I’ve read it before as a kid and found it inspirational. So I’m looking forward to it. The story is SCI-FI & FANTASY almost identical to my own life’s story; a bloke leaves home with 1 Game of Thrones The Mightiest Magpies covers all the Collingwood legends, including nothing, and in the end creates George R.R. Martin, Harper Collins an empire. The only difference is: THE MIGHTIEST MAGPIES dominating the national footy Clash of Kings I left home with nothing, and still 2 Michael Roberts with competition. have nothing. George R.R. Martin, Harper Collins Glenn MacFarlane Covering a series of stories 3 Storm of Swords Publisher: Penguin Group (Australia) behind every Collingwood Who are your favourite George R.R. Martin, HarperCollins $49.95 premiership win since 1896 — authors? 4 Feast for Crows including four in a row from Ion Iodress because he writes George R.R. Martin, HarperCollins By GREY MORRIS 1927-30 — the book is a must for about earlier times in our history Magpie fans. — back when Aussies really took 5 Wise Man’s Fear COLLINGWOOD Football Club. All the great players, from on challenges. Local bloke Patrick Rothfuss, Victor Gollancz The name alone is enough to and Andrew McMillan is pretty good send fans of the AFL club into a in the 1950s to the Coventry as well, and seems to have a frenzy and opposition sup- brothers, Peter McKenna and natural hunger for real fair- CHILDREN’S porters into shock. Tony Shaw are discussed at dinkum Territory history. That same black and white length in its pages. 1 Passion: Fallen Book 3 army has been out in force since The heroic 1958 Grand Final What would you like to write Lauren Kate, Random House September last year, when Col- win, when coach formed a coaching and cap- a book about? lingwood won its 15th flag by urged his players to bleed for taincy team that snapped an Diary of a Wimpy Kid Everything I’ve written in my 2 thrashing St Kilda. him, and the fourpeat record, agonising 32-year drought by humble literary career has been Jeff Kinney, Penguin Books So it is appropriate that is one of several legendary thrashing Essendon. non-fiction, so I’d like to 3 Hunger Games author Michael Roberts and Magpie flags. The Mightiest Magpies will be pure fiction. Something about a Suzanne Collins Herald Sun journalist Glen A brash and talented Mel- available in all good bookstores serial killer murdering and eating 4 Harry Potter & the Philosopher’s Stone MacFarlane release The Migh- bourne under coach Norm and retail outlets in Darwin shock-jocks. It could sell. I’d enjoy JK Rowling tiest Magpies: The Story Of Every Smith was a red-hot favourite to from August 4. it because so-called shock jocks Collingwood Premiership Season equal that feat. For your chance to win a cop of are good for nothing and polarise 5 Throne of Fire From 1896-2010 to those adoring And there was 1990, the year The Mightiest Magpies, check out the community. I’d also like to do Rick Riordan fans with Collingwood again and Tony Shaw Sidelines in Friday’s NT News a cook book. SOURCE: www.dymocks.com.au BOOK REVIEWS

THE VANISHING ACT BRAVE THE MOST HUMAN THE RACE HUMAN Brett Hoffmann Mette Jakobsen Mark Whittaker Brian Christian (Penguin, $29.95) (Text, $23.95) (Pan Macmillan, $34.99) (Penguin, $29.95) In The Race, Melbourne On a lonely island, after It doesn’t take long after This book begins with a author Brett Hoffmann

what seems to have been a some shocking event for telling quote from author continues the adventures PUB: terrible war, young Minou heroes to emerge. David Foster Wallace: of Wall Street analysts NTNE-WS-31-J41KGE:MDA-TE: Y-C-CO-LO-R: and her father live alone. It’s Whether they pulled ‘‘Today’s person spends Stella Sartori and Jack been a year since Minou’s mother, a mural- someone from a burning house or a flooded way more time in front of screens . . . and Rogers, a pair who get involved in more painting artist and free spirit, walked out into street, the decision has been made: they are a what is it to be human and alive and exercise adventure than their job descriptions might the rain and disappeared. Minou refuses to hero. But after that initial praise, what your humanity in that kind of exchange?’’ suggest. After a private jet taking a wealthy accept she has died. This book is a sharp, becomes of them? How do they deal with the Here, poet and computer scientist Brian family to the Monaco Grand Prix explodes, elegantly written fable about loss, loneliness fallout from that life-changing, split-second Christian muses on what effect the rise of Sartori and Rogers are put on the case. What and taking comfort in what you have. The decision? Journalist Mark Whittaker uses the machines - the sorts of super-computers that they assume is a simple financial clean-up job characters are redolent of some of skill, flair and sensitivity of a great feature win chess tournaments or respond to feelings becomes a lot more dangerous. Did someone Hemingway or Steinbeck’s best. writer to analyse that comedown. - will mean for humanity. want this family dead? www.sundayterritorian.com.au Sunday, July 31, 2011. Sunday Territorian. 41