Read: Paralympics brilliant but why weren't you watching?

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In a brilliant, must-read book about banking, finance and economics, Allison ultimately views the problems underlying our economy as philosophical.

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When it comes to fiction, Tim Winton's Cloudstreet is probably the must-read novel, although I thought Breath was brilliant at making sense of the joy and wonder of surfing to people who have never ridden a wave.

BBC: Essential reading for new arrivals in Australia

Mr Romney noted that one book he had read recently, Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs and Steel (utterly brilliant, by the way) put economic differences down to geography.

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You go and you read James Joyce's The Dead, and there's the most brilliant example of the party scene that's ever been written, and I think you can get a little closer to being able to do it afterwards.

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