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Ubuntu 8.04 - Review 
Book Review: The New Space Opera - Jonathan Strahan & Gardner Dozois 
Book Review: The Man With the Golden Torc - Simon Green 
Electric bike, anyone? 
Book Review: Year's Best Australian SF&F 
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ABC News
Not cool, but bad guys have their place 
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Age Bookclub
Ian Rankin's Rebus 
Book Club with Christopher Koch 
Old Tom's Big Book of Beauty 
Family Romance 
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 
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Allison & Busby
Books or chocolate...books or chocolate... 
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit 
The month that time forgot... 
Good ol' fashioned glow-in-the-dark fun 
Catching up 
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Angela Savage
Crime and Justice Festival Program 
Crime and Justice Festival 
On location 
123 meme 
Milestone #1 
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AustCrime Online
MWF Programme Options for 2008 
Currently Reading - The Mystery of the Missing Masterpiece, Robin Bowles 
2008 Ned Kelly Awards Night 
Trick or Treat 
PROPHET MURDERS, THE - Mehmet Murat Somer 
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Barbara Fister
oh happy day 
why information literacy is a hard sell 
the holy trinity 
the tail that wags the tail 
a little editorial work on the constitution 
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BeWrite Books
Zimmercon - 8th August 2008 
Out Now! 
Upcoming interview with Howard Waldman 
ALLAKAZZAM! by Daniel Abelman 
Author Chat with Magdalena Ball 
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Blood Stained Book Reviews
Whack A Mole by Chris Grabenstein 
Big Money by Jack Getze 
Memories Are Murder by Lou Allin 
Killer Heat by Linda Fairstein 
Pandemic by Daniel Kalla 
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Booksnob
Preserving the Italian Way 
Melissa King’s Garden Feast 
A Question of Death 
All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome 
Maggie’s Harvest 
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Boomerang Book News
What's hot in the media - 14 July 2008 
Rushdie named Best of the Booker 
Glenn McGrath book 
Bestsellers this week 
Lonely Planet to open concept store 
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Boomerang Book Reviews
The Two-hearted Numbat by Ambelin and Ezekial Kwaymullina 
Dissection by Jacinta Halloran 
The Pages by Murray Bail 
As Darkness Falls by Bronwyn Parry 
Bright Air by Barry Maitland 
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Can't Stop Won't Stop
DRINK IT BITTER Will Be Published! 
New Story at MuzzleFlash! 
YellowMama Accepted a Story 
A Perfect Cover 
Sunshine & Roses 
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Charlotte Grimshaw
The other side of the world 
Strange days 
Getting Out of the House 
Travelling 
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Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind
Harrogate Roundup 
Review of Denise Hamilton's THE LAST EMBRACE 
Crime in the City, 2008 Edition 
Radio Ga-Ga 
Another Janet Maslin Head-Scratcher 
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Crime Always Pays
Mais Oui, MONSIEUR: Some Lawrence Durrell-related Flummery 
“Oi! Where’s My Blummin’ Comment?” 
Yep, It’s Another ‘Dear Genre’ Letter 
Death, Where Is Thy Sting? Oh, There It Is … 
The Bagman Cometh 
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Crime Carnival
Carnival of the Criminal Minds, No. 18 
Carnival of the Criminal Minds, No. 17 
Carnival of the Criminal Minds, No. 16 
Carnival of the Criminal Minds, No. 15 
Carnival of the Criminal Minds, No. 14 
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Crime Down Under
Bright Air by Barry Maitland - The Follow Up 
Three Authors You Couldn't Live Without 
July '08 - New Releases 
Currently Reading Bright Air by Barry Maitland 
Genre Flash 2 
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Crime Scene Scotland
Found on the Internet 05/06/08 
THE COLD SPOT by Tom Piccirilli 
WHAT BURNS WITHIN by Sandra Ruttan 
Found on the internet 29/05/08 
A Double Dose of Stuart MacBride 
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Crime Scraps
LIBRARY FINES 
INVESTIGATIONS WITH A RETIRED DENTIST 
DEVON DISTRACTIONS NO 2: BUDLEIGH SALTERTON BEACH 
MODERN DAY HEROES: CRIME SCRAPS REVIEWS LORRAINE CONNECTION 
THE FRENCH CONNECTION 
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Crimespace
Harrogate - or "Donna, don't take this the wrong way, but I can really see you in a brothel." 
Watching You is now out! 
Harrogate - or "Donna, don't take this the wrong way, but I can really see you in a brothel." 
Does That Scanner Make My Butt Look Fat? 
Another Great Review 
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Crimespot
I WANT 
Free Psycho Billy! 
Well, This Sucks - Updated 
Well, This Sucks 
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Detectives Beyond Borders
A grace note: What song has the best crime-fiction line? 
Zest 
The Prophet Murders — Community news 
Coda: A note on musical references in crime stories 
Noir at the Bar: The Bugs Bunny and Edgar Allan Poe edition 
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Do You Write Under Your Own Name?
Friend of the Devil 
Story springboards 
The Long Good Friday 
Frances Fyfield 
Dick Stewart 
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Down in the Hole
The Lineup: Poems On Crime, Issue 1 Out Now 
News From Around The Interweb 
Hibernating With The Green Fairy 
Forgotten Books Friday 
Haopy Birthday To Me 
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Eurocrime
Harrogate - Nordic Crime Readers Group Session 
Away from the blog for a few days 
Ashes to Ashes - series 2 
Gianrico Carofiglio wins Radio Bremen Krimipreis 
Publishing Deal - Jack Higgins 
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Femmes Fatales
Cats and Characters...What Chatty Beings They Are 
Welcome to our new Femme Fatale, Hank Phillippi Ryan! 
Meet Hank. And meet Charlotte McNally 
Jealousy--Turning a Vice into a Virtue 
The time suck conundrum 
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Freemantle Arts Press
Book Launch: Contrary Rhetoric by John Kinsella 
Book Launch: Hal Spacejock: No Free Lunch 
Book Launch: Hal Spacejock 4: No Free Lunch 
Book launch: Shades of the Sublime & Beautiful 
Haebich invited to attend Australia 2020 
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Great Victorian Summer Read
The amulet title - Dorothy Porter 
Elephants always remember a bad poem - Dorothy Porter 
Getting away with murder - Dorothy Porter 
Plunging in- Dorothy Porter 
The spirit of writing - paul mitchell 
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Guardian Book Blog
Poster poems: Listen to the music, write on 
Youth crime: at least books aren't to blame 
50 best literary translations? Here's how I read it... 
Terror poems are terrible poems 
Choose the future of interactive fiction 
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Hey, There's A Dead Guy....
Genre-Bending 
Road Food 
When it's hot outside... 
Father Ted (and I) visit Canterbury . . . 
A damn fine evening... 
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In For Questioning
Stand-by 
Ray Banks Interview 
Stuart MacBride Interview 
Donna Moore Interview 
Russel D. McLean Interview 
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Independent Crime
Hunt for Adventure 
Wednesday Paperback Cover 
A Golden Age for Short Fiction? 
I need a vacation 
Impossible Hands 
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International Noir Fiction
Casablanca Noir: The Final Bet, by Abdelilah Hamdouchi 
Bleak families: Inger Frimansson's sequel 
Australian cop movie (or art film): Matthew Saville's Noise 
Twisted Noir from Italy: Gianluca Morozzi's Blackout 
Italian noir by Michele Giuttari 
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It's a Crime
Dylan, Caitlin, Double Drink, now again with Virago 
Murder Most Boring, The Murder Wars, Publishing Most Foul, Harrogate, Publishing News 
Murder Most Boring? Crime Fiction is Dead? Join a debate, if you dare... 
Takin' Over the Asylum 
2008 Dagger Winners, some thoughts 
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It's Criminal
Crime and Justice Festival, Melbourne 
The Writing Class by Jincy Willett 
Three authors I couldn't live without 
The Book of Murder by Guillermo Martinez 
Ned Kelly Awards reading update 
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J J Cooper
Dialogue 
Five Quick Questions with Ed Lynskey 
The Value of Writing Related Websites 
Favourite Lines - Interrogated 
Five Quick Questions with Laura Benedict 
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John Baker's Blog
Presque vu LXVI 
Literary Cafés 
Breakfast in the Market 
The Amnesiac 
Some Restaurants and Cafés to Avoid