Have you read The Poet?
Michael Connelly’s The Poet is our April Book Of The Month! At only $12.99, it’s great value! What an experience! The Poet is a rollercoaster ride – a whole bunch of twists and turns and tiny, misleading drops that build up to the final plummet. This is a novel that kept me turning page after […]
Reviewsday: The Last Showman
An excellent Aussie autobiographical yarn of Fred Brophy and his boxing tent, an old institution banned almost everywhere in the western world … as well as in Victoria and New South Wales here (Fred will often wish visitors from these two states a happy ‘Welcome to Australia!’). As a boxer, the tent-boxing idea has fascinated […]
One To Keep You Up All Night
Kazuo Ishiguro shows off his amazing storytelling technique in this novel, following Kathy from her childhood at Hailsham Boarding School to her adult life beyond it. Throughout the novel, you are filled with this sense of looking back, on reflecting upon Kathy’s childhood and how it has affected her relationships beyond Hailsham. Kathy spends the […]
Just Like Mama Used To Make
A wonderful classic cookbook! What family hasn’t got one of these stashed somewhere in the house? I remember my mother frequently referring to our copy of the book fairly often, mostly for the pikelet recipe on page 177. This page in our copy is lovingly stained with years old splatters of pikelet batter. Containing traditional […]
