Before I started reading/reviewing these books, Anne Willan was unfamiliar to me but, as soon as they arrived, her name started to crop up in my reading with increasing regularity. An American
Gram Parsons is the patron saint of Americana and, like all the best patron saints, he had the good grace to live fast and die young in a spectacular way in 1973. Gram Parsons: God’s Own Singer is a biography of the musician by Australian
In Kathy Reichs’s fifth novel, the setting shifts from the familiar American and Canadian soil to a Guatemalan village, the site of a political massacre during that country’s bloody civil war that took the lives of thousands between 1962 and 1996. An international
What a great idea. Get real women (2400 of them) to test beauty products, report back on them and publish the details of the ones that work. Beauty and health editors Josephine Fairley and Sarah Stacey got 240 panels of ten women
This is the story of postwar Japan, as seen through the eyes of Masuji Ono, a retired artist. Ono is proud of his rise to a man of stature and influence in pre-war Japan. He recounts his struggle to become a famous artist; through
Evie Kinsella has a hectic life. Single mother to her four-year-old daughter, Holly and working in a job she loathes to support them both, a visit to her friend Monique in France is just what the doctor ordered. Envisaging a week of fun and no responsibility
British organic and Fairtrade food chain Fresh and Wild teamed up with organic expert Ysanne Spevack, editor of online organic food magazine organicfood.co.uk, to produce this cookbook. It’s both worthy and worthwhile, but sometimes Spevack’s
I have to begin by pinning my colours to the mast: I am a big fan of Frida Kahlo’s art, I am fascinated by the story of her life and I loved the 2003 biopic starring Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina. Not surprisingly then I approached this
Hermann Hesse was a German novelist, poet, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. He is most famous for his novels Steppenwolf and Das Glasperlenspiel (The Glass Bead Game). Gertrude is I believe a lesser lauded and read novel, it is none
Harriet Turner works in the family business, a travel company specializing in themed tours. The business, set up by her parents, is based in a small coastal town in Australia and is now run by Harriet’s brother James and his wife Melissa. Harriet has had
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