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  Living North Magazine (Julian West)

  "Some of your travel tips are great and are worked beautifully into the text...

  ...these little OTT generalisations are really quite amusing and give the book part of its flow and fun....

  ...your writing maintains its high standard. Your more general observations are great 'I delight in the rough Australian bitch in front of us hitting her son Daniel and his brother while their lazy English Dad ignores them all in his sleep'.

  Your descriptions of places such as Raffles and many others are great, your candid reflections on work are revealing...

  Tell us how it is Tony... and you do. I love your comments about Ayers Rock, and your struggles (financial and other) in getting there. This sums it up 'It does feel special, almost spiritual. And I am a cynic.'

  There is also a lot more for the reader to enjoy at a more basic level, your bacon scrap with a Roo is great, your drunken exploits amuse, your observations of your children genuinely uplift (If your son does open the batting at the MCG–I’ll come and

  watch too!)... Your comments on what you see from the Adelaide skyline and other day to day instances are also as refreshing as they are honest. ‘Here the village of less than a hundred has its own floodlit stadium. It is ridiculous, ridiculously good'. And you also often express excellently–if you don't mind me saying, for example in Hong Kong on your return journey when your writing loses some of its charm, you are beginning to dread coming home, you come up with,'You see Disney may be a sickly sweet annoying sister, but it is also a very kind, caring, wealthy uncle'.

  If this book isn't a blockbuster it should still sell well...

  Good luck with your excellent book."

  Review by tony horne on 14:04, 14 Sep 2009

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  Mikey Hall

  'What struck me from the start was the style that I expect from you after listening to your shows as far back as the mid 90s with ascerbic observations that everyone would have some point related to but in different circumstances. Overall there are some killer observations which bring humour, a lot of warmth in things that appear unxepected to you and a vulnerable sensibilty in a life changing experience. An interesting and enjoyable read.' Micky Hall

  Review by tony horne on 14:06, 14 Sep 2009

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  Nicola Downey

  'I did like it and enjoyed it firstly I think because I think you have written it very much in your own personality and I could almost hear you saying these things as I read through and your humour/sarcasm/cynicism came through exactly as you seem on air.

  Secondly, I enjoyed it because it was a good honest account. Right from the start you can tell it isn't going to be airburshed glossy tales of days full of hugging koalas, shaking hands with snakes and beach after beach after golden beach...it seems to have the everyday little funny/disastrous things and observations that make holidays memorable...

  and thirdly I think it was a good mix of detail about the places you were seeing mixed with the family side of things and observations."

  Review by tony horne on 14:07, 14 Sep 2009

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