Five Great Reads: when your family are Nazis, shipwrecked for 38 days, and the godfather of competitive eating

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

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Top of the weekend to you all. A gentle reminder to my fellow Australians that there is a time and place for the “Oi! Oi! Oi!” chant and that was Sydney almost a quarter of a century ago.

With that Olympics-related PSA out of the way, go the Boomers, go the Tillies – and rest assured that from here this newsletter is a sport-free zone. Kind of.