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Many of us have had a 'Sliding Doors' moment. A single incident that grabs life by the shoulders and shoves it in a completely new and unexpected direction. Few can have travelled quite so far, quite so quickly as Antonio Francisco Bonfim Lopes, aka Nem. [[Nemesis – The Hunt For Brazil's Most Wanted Criminal by Misha Glenny|Full Review]]
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===[[This House of Grief by Helen Garner]]===
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This is an account of a harrowing event in Australia's recent history: the drowning of three young boys when the car being driven by their father, Robert Farquharson, veered off the road and fell into a dam. The father escaped unhurt. The tragedy was appropriated by the national media and led to a drawn-out prosecution of the father for murder. [[This House of Grief by Helen Garner|Full Review]]
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