Here’s where you’ll find just what you’re looking for - a review of a book you’ve heard about, or not; recommendations from women I interview, old favourites, cook books … and links to interviews and articles about all things bookish
What have you been reading? It’s a common question around this time of year when everyone takes to a sofa, beach chair, whatever, and reads from the pile of books saved for this very time. I’ve just read a book that I would normally not read and surprised myself by enjoying it simply for what it is …
Amidst the many books we read, sometimes you read a book and it really touches you. I’m sure you know the feeling … you love picking it up to continue, you’re sad when it ends, you can’t stop thinking about it, you recommend it to your friends as a ‘must read’ …
Have you read any of Australian author Geraldine Brook’s books? She’s been a foreign correspondent in the Middle East for The Wall Street Journal, won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for her novel March and is currently delivering the Boyer Lectures for 2011 here in Australia. Geraldine is really worth reading and listening to …
Can you ever have enough cook books? I never ask myself that question for fear of the wrong answer. Cookbooks, old and new, provide constant inspiration so Bake by Tina Bester is now on my bookshelf too …
Have you found that every now and then a book really touches you - not always just the subject matter, sometimes the tone, the humour, the observations about life, about being a woman ..
Well, Siri Hustvedt’s latest book, The Summer Without Men, has definitely touched me - and I’m only halfway through …
Cupcakes - those gorgeous morsels that look almost too good to eat! Samantha Blears, from Love Bakery on the King’s Road in London has done all the hard work and written a great cook book full of cupcake recipes for you to easily make at home, just like she did …
I’ve been reading Solar by Ian McEwan over the Christmas break. What a story! McEwan once mentioned that he’d be a scientist if he weren’t a writer. His interest in science (and a great sense of the comic) helps McEwan bring a huge topic like climate change into the real world …
