Chris Middendorp
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Teenagers, Alcohol and Drugs: What Your Kids Really Want and Need to Know About Alcohol and Drugs: By Paul Dillon
Chris Middendorp
Paul Dillon's calm guide to adolescent drug and alcohol use is a handy anodyne for all those parents who fear they will overheat like the...
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'The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty' by Peter Singer
Chris Middendorp
Peter Singer is a public intellectual par excellence; he takes complex philosophical notions and relates them directly to the general...
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‘The Pages’ by Murray Bail
Chris Middendorp
The Pages, Murray Bail's latest novel and his first in a decade, is an intermittently engaging satire on the conceits of philosophy and...
More ...'Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2005'
Chris Middendorp
The uncredited introduction to this anthology somewhat meekly proposes that we shouldn't take high honours in literature too seriously...
More ...‘North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs Volume IV’ By Clive James
Chris Middendorp
Near the conclusion of the third volume of his memoirs, May Week Was in June, Clive James argued memorably that constructing a decent...
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