I think I might have mentioned this book on Facebook and perhaps I have left it a little late to promote it now we are moving back to 'normal life", but it still provides a totally frivolous but highly entertaining read. I see author Ian Doors (a play on words?) lives in England, but the... Continue Reading →
A guest to my radio program The Good Life on 3MDR on the 17th of Feb 2020 was author J.P. (Josh) POMARE, whose recent book 'In The Clearing' I loved and in which I became totally involved. Set in Australia, it reverberates very strongly with those of us who have followed the story (well known... Continue Reading →
I read a great numbers of books, as I am sure you know, and it is always a delight to discover a new author whose work one really enjoys! This certainly applies to a book titled Maggie’s Going Nowhere, a first novel by Australian author Rose Hartley. One has to disapprove of Maggie who is... Continue Reading →
This is a fascinating book - especially for readers with Scottish heritage and an interest in our own historical background. Set in 1852, I found it particularly interesting as one side of my own family also arrived from Scotland that same year but under very different conditions. Another element that makes this book so... Continue Reading →
It is always exciting to find and really enjoy the writings of a "new" author. Although this is 'technically' a crime novel, the crime itself is the catalyst for the powerful story of family life in a remote Shetland Island village, where infidelities are exposed and relationships are tested. The characters are all strongly depicted... Continue Reading →
It had been a hard week for me with the death of my own old dog, but I was happy to be able to speak with the charming and whimsical young man who has written a lovely little book titled '(Definitely) The Best Dogs Of All Time'. Jadan Carroll does not own a dog himself... Continue Reading →
I interviewed Jill Dupleix on my program The Good Life, whose name is very familiar to the foodies of Melbourne. Jill worked with The Age and was very active on the Melbourne culinary scene before she and husband, restaurant reviewer Terry Durack, moved to London where, for six years, Jill was Food Editor Back in... Continue Reading →
Ann Creber passed me this book on Australian community recipes because as well as being part of the same community we have a shared interest in all things food. This is not a book full of recipes. But, it does have recipes to take you down memory lane. Initially I started picking through the book... Continue Reading →
This is a magnificent book .. but it left me deeply frustrated! I am inquisitive by nature and I was desperate to know the story behind so many of the photos in this book. The walls covered with so many photos, others covered with nothing but Jaeger magazine covers......cluttered old shop interiors paired opposite pristine,... Continue Reading →
This is an extraordinarily powerful book which captures the personalities of the human characters involved and, as we expect now from this author, introduces the vast and harsh Australian landscape as a character in its own right. In this story the landscape is a ruthless killer, with vast, barren distances and the occasional lonely grave... Continue Reading →
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