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Booked in for bargains

Alan Broomhall and Angelia Stone-Tolcher at the Lifeline Bookfest.

Lifeline Queensland’s Rockhampton Bookfest was back on the weekend, and CQ Today journalist MATTHEW PEARCE dropped into the event at the Rockhampton Showgrounds’ Robert Schwarten Pavilion to snap some photos.

Check out who was spotted out and about.

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