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Pre Order With Booko : The Last Migration

August 5, 20202020, New authors, New Release, Pre Order, Recommended, Top Books, Writing#Bookoaustralia, #imclever, #newbooks, #newreleases, #preorderTeam Booko

Today’s Pre Order with Booko is an epic story of the possibility of hope against all odds and is a wild, gripping and deeply moving novel from a brilliant young writer. It’s The Last Migration.

Pre Order With Booko: Roughy

August 4, 20202020, Australian Stories, Change, Characters, Goals, Leadership, Learning, New Release, Personal development, Pre Order, Recommended, Sport, Top Books#Bookoaustralia, #imclever, #newbooks, #newreleases, #preorderTeam Booko

Today’s Pre Order with Booko is for all of the footy fans. It’s a story of sportsmanship, resilience and a horrible battle with cancer. It’s Roughy.

Pre Order with Booko: Bluey My Dad is Awesome

August 3, 20202020, Characters, Children, Friendship, Funny, Gifts, Ideas, Illustration, Learning, New Release, Pre Order, Recommended, Shopping, Top Books, Top Tips#Bookoaustralia, #imclever, #newbooks, #newreleases, #preorderTeam Booko

This month we’re giving you a heads up as to what is about to hit the bookshelves. Today’s Pre Order with Booko is by two of the most hilarious Blue Healers that are taking the world by storm, My Dad is Awesome by Bingo and Bluey.

Books of the World: The Dinner Guest

July 31, 20202020, Books of the World, Recommended, Top Books#Bookoaustralia, #BOTW, #imclever, #ourworld, #Reading, #stories, #Topbooks, #worldbooksTeam Booko

The story goes that there’s an extra dinner guest at every meal. He’s invisible, but always there. He has a plate, glass, knife and fork. Every so often he appears, casts his shadow over the table, and erases one of those present. The Dinner Guest is a great novel, with the feel of documentary non-fiction.

Books of the World: Go, Went, Gone.

July 30, 20202020, Books of the World, Learning, Personal development, Recommended, Top Books, Travel#Bookoaustralia, #BOTW, #imclever, #ourworld, #Reading, #stories, #Topbooks, #worldbooksTeam Booko

Today’s BOTW is a passionate contribution to the debate on race, privilege and nationality. Go, Went, Gone showcases one of the great contemporary European writers at the height of her powers.

Book of the World: The World Goes On

July 29, 20202020, Awards, Books of the World, Recommended, Top Books, Writing#Bookoaustralia, #BOTW, #imclever, #ourworld, #stories, #worldbooksTeam Booko

Short-listed for The Man Booker International Prize, a Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. The World Goes On is today’s Book of the World.

4 reasons to learn a new language

July 29, 2020Learning, Personal development, Recommended, TedTalks#communication, #imclever, #language, #minds, #ted, #tedtalk, #thoughtsTeam Booko

English is fast becoming the world’s universal language, and instant translation technology is improving every year. So why bother learning a foreign language? Linguist and Columbia professor John McWhorter shares four alluring benefits of learning an unfamiliar tongue.

Books of the World: The White Book.

July 28, 20202020, Author, Awards, Books of the World, Learning, Recommended, Top Books, Writing#Bookoaustralia, #BOTW, #imclever, #ourworld, #stories, #worldbooksTeam Booko

The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life and it is today’s Book of the World.

Books of the world: Flights

July 27, 20202020, Author, Awards, Books of the World, Recommended, Travel, Writing#Bookoaustralia, #BOTW, #imclever, #ourworld, #stories, #worldbooksTeam Booko

Flights was awarded Poland’s biggest literary prize in 2008 and is a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy by Olga Tokarczuk. It’s today’s Book of the World.

Books of the World: The Discomfort of Evening.

July 24, 20202020, Author, Books of the World, Characters, New authors, New Release, Recommended, Top Books, Writing#Bookoaustralia, #BOTW, #imclever, #ourworld, #stories, #worldbooksTeam Booko

Today’s BOTW is the sensational Dutch bestseller Marieke Lucas Rijneveld’s extraordinary portrait of a farming family distorted by grief, The Discomfort of Evening. Have you read it?

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