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    A budgie streaker, naked as the day he was hatched, is escorted from the field of play in 'Great Budgie Batsmen and Bowlers', written by Ian Moffitt and Philip Gore and illustrated by Bill Leak (Collins, 96pp., $8.95). The book must qualify as one of the strangest contributions to the literature of "cricket", containing as it does some striking caricatures and pen-portraits of the feathered masters — Don Budgman (who once ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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    'DREAMS of Glory' is Thomas Fleming's third novel; the other two, which received good notices, were 'The Officers' Wives' and 'Promises ...

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  5. A too-private experience

    FOR some years Nancy Phelan has been writing travel books about exotic places. Her most recent is a nostalgia trip to her youthful ...

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    SIX miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean a bathysphere tips over a cliff and becomes wedged in a thermal vent. As the temperature ...

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  7. Tale of a twin needs more magic

    STOAT Books, of which this is one, is a series of novelettes for young readers of seven to nine. The typeface is large and the books are ...

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    ONE of the outstanding features of this year's Canberra Festival will undoubtedly be the Gala Parks Concert next Saturday night, to be ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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