This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. Can’t get away this summer? Need a book (or, better, a series) that will sweep you away from your everyday Covid staying at home reality? I have just the thing for you in Summer Reads this week! […]
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Summer Reads: Songs for the end of the world
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. This week’s Summer Reads offering is quite the timely read from Canadian author Saleema Nawaz. From the publisher: How quickly he’d forgotten a fundamental truth: the closer you got to the heart of a calamity, the […]
Summer Reads: Things I learned from falling
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. Ever wonder what you would do if you were lost in the desert with very little likelihood of being found? Claire Neslon found herself in exactly this position in 2018 and Things I Learned From Falling is […]
French Fridays: My Four Seasons in France
Hello and Happy French Friday! Today I’m looking at a book many of you may be interested in simply for the fact that it’s set in France and it doesn’t look like many of us will be travelling to France this summer – it’s the perfect armchair travel read! From the publisher: A little over […]
French Fridays: Paris on Air
Hello and Happy French Friday! Today’s post is dedicated to a feel-good read that is something I am sure we all need more of right now! Oliver Gee is the Australian journalist-turned-podcaster voice behind the successful The Earful Tower and Paris on Air is his first book (hopefully not his last!). As an Australian who […]
French Fridays: Drinking French
David Lebovitz’s latest book, Drinking French, was released on March 4th 2020. In calendar days it’s not that long ago but in #lifeinthetimeofcorona it’s like a million years ago. The world was a completely different place back when I tucked this book in my carry-on bag to take the long, long flight to Australia, so […]
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