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Countdown! Amazon’s Top 50
Here is your daily Amazon’s ‘Top 50’ best-selling books for 13 March 2026, brought to you by Michael Spring-Springer, author of the thriller books The Flower Bed and Two Minutes. Click the link below to take you directly to Amazon’s best-sellers page.
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A Stroke of Genius!
From 14 May 2026, the London Symphony Orchestra will perform concerts of music composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, Richard Wagner, and Richard Strauss that they describe as: ‘Epic. Romantic. Exquisite.’ And while the thought of Nathalie Stutzmann conducting the orchestra’s performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No 3, Wagner’s Overture: Rienzi, and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier might…
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Countdown! Amazon’s Top 50 Best-Sellers
Here is your daily Amazon’s ‘Top 50’ best-selling books, brought to you by Michael Spring-Springer, author of the thriller books The Flower Bed and Two Minutes. Click the link below to take you directly to Amazon’s best-sellers page.
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What About Me?
The question posed in the words of the song, to forever haunt me as life went on. The photograph of me depicted above is from almost thirty-three years ago. Where did the time go? Yet I look into those youthful eyes, and I see staring back at me a mere remnant of a man, whose…
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Countdown! Amazon’s Top 50
Here is your daily Amazon’s ‘Top 50’ best-selling books, brought to you by Michael Spring-Springer, author of the thriller books The Flower Bed and Two Minutes. Click the link below to take you directly to Amazon’s best-sellers page.
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Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
No, today’s edition of my newsletter is not about the motion picture Interstellar, although I will admit it was a fine film in terms of its plot and scientific accuracy. No, the image from the film depicts the moment when the well-aged sonorous tone of Michael Caine’s character’s voiceover narrates some of the tercets (three-line…
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Countdown! Amazon’s Top 50
Here is your daily Amazon’s ‘Top 50’ best-selling books, brought to you by Michael Spring-Springer, author of the thriller books The Flower Bed and Two Minutes. Click the link below to take you directly to Amazon’s best-sellers page.
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Pornography? Or Art?
The best love affairs are those we never had. – Norman Lindsay It is hard to imagine in this century that there was a time during the twentieth century, when societal values in Australia were so puritanical that debate raged regarding whether an artist’s works were art, or, somewhat absurdly, pornography. Indeed, I scratch my…
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Your Ship Has Come In!
Often, the premiere of an internationally acclaimed stage production is announced in Australia with great fanfare as occurring in either Sydney or Melbourne. Well, move over Beethoven, because for the very first time in the southern hemisphere, The Last Ship, written and composed by Sting, and also starring him, will premiere in Brisbane at the…
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“Kill the pig!”
The words of the choirboys; in a world of the rule of law and order, they were holy. Yet in a world without rules, without order, and consequently, the swift and inexorable dissolution of social ethos, the inner evil of the holy emerges, and the words are oft spoken: “Kill the pig!” Lord of the…