May 22, 2012

Call centre workers

Has anyone else noticed how nearly all the call centre salespeople who bother you at home with "special offers" have foreign accents? Frequently they’re English, Irish or European. Today I was called by someone from Westpac trying to flog life insurance and she was definitely English. I can only presume that most of them are [...]

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Conviction

Conviction by Richard North Patterson is a powerful and disturbing book about truth, justice and the American way. It poses more questions than it answers, incisively exposing the flawed legal system in the United States, where elected judges care more for public opinion than justice. It tells the story of a semi-retarded black man, Rennell [...]

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Blue Horizon

Wilbur Smith is a master storyteller. He has the rare gift of making every word count, and Blue Horizon is no exception. I love the way that Smith maintains the pace throughout his novels. There is no slackening; no time to draw breath; and at no time does the flow slow to a trickle. Blue [...]

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