[rating: 5] Lush in setting, restrained but ultimately satisfying in emotion, this book takes readers from the hunger and poverty of 1930s Madrid to the whitewashed streets of Morocco, then on to the … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin
[rating: 4] Inspector Malcolm Fox is a man challenged by the past, on more than one level. Firstly, within the confines of this novel, he stumbles across a hushed-up 25-year-old mystery that his … [Read more...]
World’s leading authority on low GI diets visits Australia
Pregnant women may be among the chief beneficiaries of Australia’s leading role in researching and promoting the benefits of a low glycemic index (GI) diet, says visiting Canadian GI pioneer Dr Tom … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Women of the Cousins’ War: The Duchess, the Queen and the King’s Mother
[rating: 4] Historical fiction often gets a bad rap, as lazy, ill researched, misleading and quite frankly trashy. Some of it is all these things — but some is not. When I first came across Philippa … [Read more...]
Australian Orangutan Project free Kevin and Bobby
Two orphaned orangutans, once kept as household ‘pets’, will soon live free in a Borneo nature reserve thanks to the Australian Orangutan Project. Kevin (aged about 7) and Bobby (5) almost certainly … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Shelly Beach Writers’ Group by June Loves
[rating: 4] This lovely book crept up on me. I was initially worried it would be what US publishers call a ‘cosy’ — a warm and fuzzy story without much real tension. And, in fact, it has many ‘cosy’ … [Read more...]
CEO of Room to Read Visits Australia
CEO and CO-FOUNDER OF GLOBAL NON-PROFIT URGES AUSTRALIANS TO RETHINK THE IMPORTANCE OF LITERACY AND GIRLS’ EDUCATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES "When an educated girl enters the workforce to secure … [Read more...]