Title:
Zarbo - Recipes From a New Zealand Deli
Author:
Mark McDonough and Zarbo Deli & Café
Genre:
Cookery
Mark McDonough is the owner of leading Auckland deli and café Zarbo so, in a way, this cookbook is like a shop window for his own store. But, to McDonough’s credit, there’s little direct plugging of Zarbo merchandise although the logo does appear occasionally in the moody black and white pictures scattered throughout the book.
Sometimes
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Title:
The Poisonwood Bible
Author:
Barbara Kingsolver
Genre:
Americans
Release Date:
Apr 11 2013
Pages:
640
The Poisonwood Bible is truly an enthralling book. Nathan Price, a Baptist preacher and evangelist from Southern America, travels to pre-independence Belgian Congo in 1959, with his wife and four daughters in tow, in order to educate the “Tribes of Ham” in the teachings of Jesus.
The story is told through the very different perspectives
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Title:
Around Ireland with a Pan
Author:
Éamonn Ó Catháin
Genre:
Cookery
Irish chef Éamonn Ó Catháin will be a familiar face to anyone who’s ever flicked to TG4 and caught Bia’s Bothar, his food series as Gaeilge. Entertaining and informative, his trip through the foodie highways and byways of Ireland was something that’d been done many times before but Bia’s Bothar was none the less enjoyable
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Title:
Upside Down Inside Out
Author:
Monica McInerney
Genre:
Chick-Lit
Publisher:
Pan
In her second novel, Australian author Monica McInerney revisits many of the themes and places of her debut ‘A Taste For It’. ‘Upside Down Inside Out’ is set in the dual locations of Ireland and Australia (adding London this time for good measure), offers plenty of good food and wine – McInerney’s last heroine
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