SORRY TIME GETS WRITE UP IN COL'S CRIMINAL LIBRARY http://col2910.blogspot.com.au/2017/07/anthony-maguire-sorry-time-2017. Monday, 17 July 2017 ANTHONY MAGUIRE - SORRY TIME (2017) Synopsis/blurb…. You're driving along a lonely outback road when suddenly a kangaroo leaps out in front of you. Your car is wrecked and then things rapidly go downhill from there as you find yourself under attack from a pack of wild dogs. Having survived that, you cross bloody paths with a pair of violent criminals who've murdered two people on a remote Aboriginal community. And then things go REALLY pear-shaped as you find yourself caught up on a rollercoaster of bloody revenge that takes you to the other side of the globe and to the edge of madness. Sorry Time is a breakneck story that offers a rich and entertaining reading experience, and will travel well to film. You'll meet a cast of memorable characters like Glen of the Outback, who claims to be the man in ...

AUSTRALIAN JIHAD BUY NOW Kindle The best book ever written on jihad in Australia, by the supremely gifted journalist Martin Chulov, remains an under-reviewed and under-appreciated work. As Chulov writes, Australia has been far more central to the international jihad movement than previously realised; and this book is a significant player in bringing that to light. Australia, despite its geographical isolation has been played a curious role in the development of jihadist philosophy. Two of the Islamic States greatest propagandists, Musa Cerantanio and Neil Prakash, who both achieved worldwide fame and were particularly popular with IS fighters on the front line and are both now under arrest, come from Australia.  With legal suppression orders following Operation Pendennis and the 2005 planned attacks on the Melbourne Cricket Ground,  Australian Jihad: The battle against terrorism from within and without,  was withdrawn. For many years copies were ...

THE TOPOGRAPHY OF TEARS: ARTICLE FROM BRAIN PICKINGS BUY NOW Free Delivery Worldwide Delivery in Australia & NZ Paperback iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac Click to Read More Here is an essay on the new book The Topography of Tears, courtesy of that ever mesmerising genius Maria Popova, extracted from her newsletter Brain Pickings: “Emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature, they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself,”  philosopher Martha Nussbaum wrote in her incisive treatise on  the intelligence of emotions , titled after Proust’s powerful poetic image depicting the emotions as “geologic upheavals of thought.” But much of the messiness of our emotions comes from the inverse: Our thoughts, in a sense, are geologic upheavals of feeling — an immensity of our reasoning is devoted to making sense of, or rationalizing, the emotional pa...

THE LUCKY CULTURE: THE RISE OF AN AUSTRALIAN RULING CLASS BUY NOW Delivery in Australia & NZ Kindle iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac The first decade of the 21st century was a testing time for public debate. On the issues of Aboriginal Reconciliation, asylum seeker policy, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and, later, climate change, it was impossible to sit on the fence. Australia was still one tribe there were two distinct clans rallying around different totems: the Insiders and the outsiders. There had always been divisions in Australian society: convicts and soldiers; Catholic and Protestant; city and country; rich and poor; left and right. This however was of a different order. For the first time there were people who did not simply feel better off but better than their fellow Australians. They were cosmopolitan and sophisticated, well read (or so they would have us believe) and politically aware. Their presumption of virtue set them apart from the co...

BUY NOW Free Delivery Worldwide Delivery in Australia & NZ Hardcover iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and Mac The second world — the world of literature — offered me, besides the pleasures of form, the sustentation of empathy (the first step of what Keats called negative capability) and I ran for it. I relaxed in it. I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything — other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned: that the world’s  otherness  is antidote to confusion, that standing  within  this otherness — the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books — can re-dignify the worst-stung heart. I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into the night. I thought about perfectibility, and deism, and adjectives, and clouds, and the foxes. I locked my door, from the inside, and leaped from the roof and went to the wood...