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Chequered Lives is smashing it!

Check out number three on the Readings Bookshop bestsellers list!!:           That's our very own Chequered Lives, which has been selling like hot potatoes since its launches (in SA and Victoria) last month. Find out what all the fuss is about here!

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Tricks to survive a heatwave ...

The holidays are most definitely over. And we're into Day Two of the great 2014 heatwave (fingers crossed this is the only one!). We all need a good book to get us through. Thank goodness for Iola Mathews, then! Chequered Lives is the hottest off-est the press at the minute, and it's already flying out the door. Telling the story of John Barton Hack and Stephen Hack, and the early days of South Australia, it's fascinating, incredibly…

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