Letters from a Detention Centre - Follow-Up #2

Back in March I posted an entry relating to the case of immigration detainee Peter Qasim. His case had been taken up by Greg Egan, well-known Perth sf writer, and later by Dick Smith. Now comes the news that Qasim has been released from detention, and an Adelaide hospital, and may be granted a permanent visa by Minister Vanstone.

All I can say is, about time.

Currently Reading

 
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K Rowling
The seventh and last book in the series. You get this far and you have to finish it off.

 

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 Why She Loves Him by Wendy James
Short stories from the author of Out of the Silence and The Steele Diaries.

 

Recently Read

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Blind Eye by Stuart MacBride
Macbride's fifth DS McRae novel - hard to see it getting more gruesome than this.

 

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State of Emergency by Sam Fisher
Cinematic, high-tech, futuristic rescue fiction. This might have started its own genre.

 

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Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey
A coming-of-age novel set in a small WA mining town in the 1960s. Ticks all the relevant boxes.

 

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Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon
Chabon's homage to the adventure novel. Reminiscent of Moorcock and Leiber.

 

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Headlong by Susan Varga
When is life still worth living, or is it better to die with dignity?

 

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The Pages by Murray Bail
Bail's first novel since Eucalyptus, about an Outback genius philosopher - or is he? [Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Award.]

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