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Tex: The riffs of a longtime rock'n'roller

<i>Tex</i>, by Tex Perkins.

Tex Perkins tells the story of his nearly 40 years music life, from a Queensland Uni one-night stand with Corpse of Christ to the venerable ilk of the Cruel Sea and the Beasts of Bourbon.

Turning Pages

Nigella Lawson has a collection of 6000 books, mostly about cookery.

is it possible to have 300,000 books in your home, even if you do stack them in a strange manner?

Pachinko: A saga that is hard to put down

'Pachinko' by Min Jin Lee.

Pachinko is an intergenerational narrative with the unputdownable quality of soap plus the satisfactions of prose that can disclose realities and a set of interconnected stories that mirror the movement of history.

Shackled: Ice-bound in Antarctica

Shackled. By Chris Turney.

When Chris Turney's party got stuck in the Antarctic ice, the experience of Douglas Mawson and Ernest Shackleton suddenly didn't seem so distant.