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I don’t know when Australian Home Cookery was published, (in England by Hazell, Watson & Viney) but it was Read More
A SINGLE TREE, VOICES FROM THE BUSH Compiled by Don Watson Hamish Hamilton. RRP $45. Don Watson is one of Australia’Read More
ONLY Caroline Baum Allen & Unwin rrp. $32.99 Knowing Caroline, I was prepared for something good. I did not expect this, Read More
Cover Line: “Warning: This book contains language as colourful as a Diamantina sunset, and yarns, terminology, and imagery coarser than Read More
THE BOY BEHIND THE CURTAIN Tim Winton “Language, I was to discover, is nutrition, manna without which we’re bereft Read More
“THE HIDDEN LIFE OF TREES, WHAT THEY FEEL AND HOW THEY COMMUNICATE” Peter Wohlleben. You will never look the same Read More
Dr Kiera Lindsey This fast-paced historical biography tells the story of a little-known Australian woman, who eloped with the Read More
…the story of a young man’s passage to adulthood. Author, veteran foreign correspondent and television journalist, Iain Finlay, now Read More
Annette will give a lunch talk at 1pm October 18 at Taree Library. Join Annette Marfording (www.annettemarfording.com), former Program Read More
From Grown & Gathered by Matt & Lentil ed Published by PLUM. Rrp. $45 A potato half barrel is a really Read More
Robert Milliken reviews a lively new history of the car ferries that once made crossing Wallis Lake an adventure. Read More