To Asia, With Love is packed with everyday vegetarian (and often vegan) Asian recipes and stories from the heart by Hetty McKinnon. The book starts with sections about how to cook Asian food, and the specialist ingredients you may need for your pantry. Hetty explains chilli oil and how to make other essential Asian sauces and oils. She then describes her favourite Asian … [Read more...] about To Asia, With Love by Hetty McKinnon – Book Review
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Interview with author Sam Coley
We recently caught up with Sam Coley, author of State Highway One, who kindly gave us an interview. Describe your book State Highway One: Twenty-year-old Alex Preston returns home to New Zealand after three years abroad when his parents die in a car accident. He is reunited with his twin sister Amy, with whom he had a fractious relationship growing up. To avoid … [Read more...] about Interview with author Sam Coley
Before the Storm by Di Morrissey – Book Review
Before the Storm by Di Morrissey, the bestselling author of twenty-seven novels. When Ellie Conlan is double-crossed by a fellow project manager she decides to leave the work that has been consuming her life for far too long. After encouragement from her good friend, Mike, a former colleague, she decides to take a break and quit Melbourne to check up on her elderly … [Read more...] about Before the Storm by Di Morrissey – Book Review
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik – Book Review
A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik – Lesson 1 of the Scholomance is the first of a trilogy. With a quirky female anti-hero it plumbs the depths of darkness making it more suitable for adults. From the bestselling author of Uprooted and Spinning Silver it transports the reader to a school where survival rivals learning. El (Galadriel) Higgins grew up in the Radiant Mind … [Read more...] about A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik – Book Review
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman – Book Review
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman concerns four friends, who are spending their twilight years in a luxury retirement village in Kent, and who meet up every Thursday to solve cold case murders. Joyce is the newest member, an ex-nurse recruited by Elizabeth, after interrogating Joyce about knife wounds. It is suspected that Elizabeth has worked for one of those hush, … [Read more...] about The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman – Book Review