This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. This week’s selection for Summer Reads is part-mystery, part-memoir, part-history book set in wartime and post-war Europe and Australia and once I started it I couldn’t put it down. I read it in one sitting – again, […]
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Women in Sunlight
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. You might recognise Frances Mayes as the author of the bestselling book (and later film), Under the Tuscan Sun. Her latest novel is the perfect Summer Read because it combines delicious food, travel and a genuine “feel […]
The Travelling Cat Chronicles
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. Yep, it’s another book about cats this week! But so much more than that. From the publisher: A book that “speak[s] volumes about our need for connection—human, feline or otherwise” (The San Francisco Chronicle), The Travelling Cat Chronicles […]
Summer Reads: Felix the Huddersfield Station Cat books
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. A little something different today for Summer Reads… I mean, who doesn’t love adorable tales about cats? Right? These two books are PURRFECT Summer Reads material because they are easy to […]
Sorry I’m late I didn’t want to come: One introvert’s year of saying yes
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. Are you an introvert? Or an extrovert? Or are you a shy introvert (a “shintrovert” – socially awkward introvert) like Jessica Pan? Pan is also the writer who explored the world doing “extrovert-y” things for a year […]
Summer Reads: The Strawberry Thief
This is part of my Summer Reads series where I’ll be reviewing a series of “not just cookbooks”. From Joanne Harris, the author of the bestselling Chocolat (the chocolate shop that inspired the book/film is located in Nérac!), comes The Strawberry Thief, the fourth novel to feature Vianne Rocher. From the publisher: Vianne Rocher has […]
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