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13 February, 2009 I regularly spend silly sums on beautiful volumes of foodporn, seduced by glossy photography and cuttingedge graphic design 
13 February, 2009 The Heart of the Garden beguiles the reader into assessing what they truly want from a garden, then provides an abundance of ideas and 20 diverse garden designs to help make them happen. 
13 February, 2009 The Gluten-Free Cookbook is the latest offering from the productive Australian Women’s Weekly kitchen. 
13 February, 2009 When this book arrived on my desk, I thoughtto myself, ‘How do you review a cookbook?’ Thesimplest answer seemed to be to try a few of therecipes out. 
13 February, 2009 George Raper (1769-1796), second son of a wellto-do London family, joined the Royal Navy in1783, at the age of 13. 
13 February, 2009 In this excellent, intimate, unassuming travel memoir,Melbourne writer Roger Averill accompanies his partner,sociologist Shelley Mallett, to Nuakata, a remote islandin Papua New Guinea’s Goshen Strait, where Mallett isresearching islander women’s health and the relationshipbetween mulamula Papua (traditional healing) andWestern medicine. 
13 February, 2009 In a society where the traditional nuclear familyis becoming a minority, we sometimes need to bereminded of the importance and value of the role ofgrandparent. 
13 February, 2009 The Blue Plateau is a lyrical, evocative, earthy memoirof a glorious landscape. 
13 February, 2009 Anyone can tell you the Middle East is a political quagmire. 
13 February, 2009 Marion Halligan’s intoxicating novel of love andchildren relates the interwoven lives of a group offriends and family members in contemporary Paris. 
13 February, 2009 Relatively short at less than 250 pages, The Stamp of Australia tells the story of Australia's postal services from the Second Fleet to today. 
13 February, 2009 Whether we are with the author at the administratively aggravating Hungarian-Slovakian border post without a visa, being massaged for free in Marrakech, or partying high in Alto Paraiso, Brazil, there are laughable situations, poignant moments, physical danger and the possibility of deep friendships. 
13 February, 2009 Leave to Remain is the first book I have read in 2009 and what a great start to the reading year. 
13 February, 2009 Basia Bonkowski was the iconic host of Rock Around the World on SBS in the 1980s. She was a globally focussed, cutting-edge musical and cultural spirit, that offered a new face for ‘cool’. 
13 February, 2009 In Amman in 1997, a team of Mossad agents posing as Canadian tourists attempted to poison Khalid Mishal, the head of Islamist movement Hamas’ political bureau. 
13 February, 2009 Shattered Anzacs looks at the lives of wounded Australian soldiers as they returned to Australia after WWI 
13 February, 2009 Written eloquently by journalist Christian Ryan, founding editor of The Monthly and also a former Wisden Cricketers’ Almanac Australia editor, Golden Boy is an insightful and somewhat controversial examination of Australia’s cricketing history through the career of talented batsman and former Australian captain, Kim Hughes. 
13 February, 2009 It’s an old story. The woman’s libido is snuffed like a candle, while the man’s wick keeps burning. 
13 February, 2009 Since its earliest recorded beginnings in the third millennium BC, astrology has played a part in the advancement of mathematical, medical and psychological knowledge. 
13 February, 2009 This is a cleverly planned and executed first novel. 
13 February, 2009 The title refers to a much-loved but dilapidated pub won by Sean McCabe at cards before his daughter May was born. 
13 February, 2009 In this impressive debut from Melbourne author Steven Amsterdam, set in a not-too-distant dystopian future, nine narratives are linked through the mind of one man as he grapples with a new and uncertain landscape. 
13 February, 2009 In the midst of the global financial crisis, with mortgage stress and property prices dipping, it’s probably timely to look into the murky world of the residential property boom and the main players in that market over the past decade—the ubiquitous real estate agent. 
13 February, 2009 Three women, friends from the ‘old’ days but distanced now by families, jobs and life choices, take to the road in an Elvis-festooned caravan in Harmer’s latest novel, Roadside Sisters. 
13 February, 2009 Peter Klein’s first book was his racing world memoir, A Strapper’s Tale. |
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