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Fishing

  • Fishing

    HERE COME THE MONSTERS!

    Giant mudcrabs crawling through the mangrove forests and rumbling down the port from the upper reaches of the Karuah River
  • Fishing

    SUPER SNAPPER SNAP

    If there is better snapper country than Port Stephens, I would like to know where it is. You can catch

Books

  • Books

    GREEN DOT

    Madeleine Gray. Allen and Unwin. Rrp $32.99 This is an intriguing book written in a freewheeling style I’ve not encountered
  • Books

    RUNT

    Craig Silvey Illustrations Sara Acton Allen&Unwin, RRP$22.99 Jacinta, aged 7, chats to her grandad John Watts, (whom she calls Da),
  • Books

    THE HAPPIEST MAN ON EARTH

    Eddie Jaku Macmillan. Rrp $12.99 Eddie Jaku OAM was a remarkable man. A survivor of several German concentration camps during
  • Books

    QUESTION 7

    Richard Flanagan Published by Knopf 2023 RRP $35.00 Every so often you come across a book that defies easy categorisation,
  • Books

    THE TEACHER’S PET

    Hedley Thomas with Epilogue by Matthew Condon Pan Macmillan 2023 RRP $34.99 On 30 August 2022 Christopher Michael Dawson was
  • Books

    COOK YOUR WAY TO INDONESIA!

    The Indonesian Table Petty Pandean-Elliott Phaidon   $49.95 AUD Once you start cooking any of these recipes  . . .
  • Books

    THE DROWNING

    Bryan Brown Allen&Unwin  Rrp $32.99 If murder mysteries are top of your favourite reading list here’s one that will capture

Recipes

  • Recipes

    TENDERHEART

    Hetty Lui McKinnon Published by Plum, RRP $59.99, photography by Hetty Lui McKinnon.
  • Books Recipes

    DINNER BY NAGI MAEHASHI

    Macmillan Australia RRP $44.99 Photography by Nagi Maehashi 150 dinner recipes. Fail-proof. Delicious. Addictive. The food you want to cook,

Sport

  • Sport

    PICKLEBALL TOURNAMENT!

    Next month will see Taree host the Manning Valley’s first ever major Pickleball tournament at the newly refurbished Wrigley Park
  • Sport

    Real Kultcha

    Welcome to 2022 and good riddance to 2021: what an armpit of a year!!! There was an Ashes cricket series