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Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics: an extraordinary life in song

    Paul McCartney photographed backstage at the television show ‘Thank Your Lucky Stars’, Birmingham, England, 1963. © MPL Communications LtdReview: Paul McCartney, The Lyrics:...

Dr Norman Swan’s new book tests the evidence on diet, sex and the ‘bullshit’ wellness trend. Does he know what’s good for us?

  Picture: ShuttlestockThere’s a great moment in George Eliot’s 1861 classic Silas Marner, where a young woman bemoans how people with “neither ache nor...

The Stella shortlist: your guide to 2021’s powerful, emotional books

  Picture: Stella Prize/The ConversationEach year, The Stella Prize honours writing by women. Good. We’ve come a long way. We’ve a long way to...

Sunday essay: a new front in the culture wars, Cynical Theories takes unfair aim at the humanities

Image: Liam Edwards/Unsplash In 2017, when a biology professor in a state college in Washington protested against a proposed day-long ban on the presence of white...

Review: Richard Flanagan’s The Living Sea of Waking Dreams considers griefs big and small

Eddie Coghlan/Unsplash Review: Richard Flanagan, The Living Sea of Waking Dreams (Penguin Random House, 2020)The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, Richard Flanagan’s eighth novel,...

Paul Kelly biography traces his journey but not his work with young artists today

Picture: David Moir/AAP Review: Paul Kelly: The Man, the Music and Life in Between (Hatchette)Stuart Coupe’s new biography of Paul Kelly takes many known...

Fiction, fact and Hillary Clinton: an American politics expert reads Rodham

Picture: Library of Congress Curtis Sittenfeld has a knack of putting her readers in uncomfortable places in her fiction. In her short story Gender Studies she...

Take a plunge into the memories of Australia’s favourite swimming pools

The Memory Pool’s author Therese Spruhan has her own favourite, the Northbridge Baths in Sydney. Therese Spruhan From the smell of chlorine to water...

Book review – Sangre: The Color of Dying by Carlos Colon

  About Sángre: The Color of Dying (Volume 1) Carlos Colón’s first published novel is the story of Nicky Negrón, a Puerto Rican salesman in New...

Book Review: A Greater God by Brian Stoddart

  About A Greater God (Superintendent Le Fanu Mysteries Book 4) Muslims are being murdered and communal tensions escalating as Superintendent Chris Le Fanu returns, reluctantly,...
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Mick created TAGG - The Alternative Gig Guide in 1979 with Helmut Katterl, the world's first real Street Magazine. He had been involved with his fathers publishing business, Toorak Times and associated publications since 1972. Mick was also involved in Melbourne's music scene for a number of years opening venues, discovering and managing bands and providing information and support for the industry.Mick has also created a number of local festivals and is involved in not for profit and supporting local charities.