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Tapas. Roast Portobello Mushrooms, Lamb Kofta, Mexican Chicken Tenders and Caprese Salad Bondi Social at Bondi Beach.

The 2014 word of the year is …

IT is a sign of changing times that the word of the year in 2013 was “selfie”, followed by “twerk”. Throw both of those away, apparently there’s a new word we like more.

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FILE - This March 14, 1963 file photo shows Harper Lee, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "To kill a Mockingbird." Publisher Harper announced Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2015, that "Go Set a Watchman," a novel Lee completed in the 1950s and put aside, will be released July 14. It will be her second published book. (AP Photo, File)

Why would Harper Lee publish now?

THE book that has taken the literary world by storm over the past 24 hours lay dormant for sixty years. So why is it being published now and what does the death of Lee’s sister have to do with it?

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To Kill a Mockingbird, will be screened at Event Cinemas as part of its The Masters of Hollywood series.

To Kill a Mockingbird gets sequel

MORE than 50 years after Harper Lee released what is now hailed as one of the greatest books of the twentieth century, a sequel is coming. What took so long?

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What life is really like as an American sniper

What life is really like as an American sniper

AMID the buzz of “American Sniper”, meet Nicholas Irving, who became a master sniper with the US Army during tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. In his new book, he tells what it’s really like to take a life.

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