About the Book: A delightfully warm, witty, and poignant memoir about falling in love, and an eye-opening behind-the scenes tour of the rarefied world of The New York Times weddings pages - from the good and the bad to the just plain weird. Growing up in America's romantic south, where tradition reigns supreme, Cate Doty … Continue reading Book Review: Mergers and Acquisitions by Cate Doty
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Book Review: Love Stories by Trent Dalton
About the Book: A blind man yearns to see the face of his wife of thirty years. A divorced mother has a secret love affair with a priest. A geologist discovers a three-minute video recorded by his wife before she died. A tree lopper's heart falls in a forest. A working mum contemplates taking photographs … Continue reading Book Review: Love Stories by Trent Dalton
Book Review: Flight of the Budgerigar by Penny Olsen
About the Book: The Budgerigar is arguably Australia’s best-known bird. At the same time, it is so ubiquitous that not everyone knows that it is Australian. Nor do many realise that the multicoloured bird that comes to mind—not to mention today’s super-sized, extravagantly coiffed show budgie—is as different from the free-living original as a chihuahua … Continue reading Book Review: Flight of the Budgerigar by Penny Olsen
Book Review – Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet by Colin Butfield, Jonnie Hughes
About the Book: A book of action and optimism to save our planet. With an introduction from Prince William and contributions from Sir David Attenborough, Shakira Mebarak, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Naoko Yamazaki and Christiana Figueres, EARTHSHOT shows us how, by working together, we can solve earth's greatest challenges. As Prince William, founder of The Earthshot … Continue reading Book Review – Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet by Colin Butfield, Jonnie Hughes
Book Review: The First Time I Thought I Was Dying by Sarah Walker
About the Book: A dazzling collection of essays that unpacks our unruly bodies and minds and questions why we are taught to fear and punish them, from an exciting and award-winning new author. We live in a world that expects us to be constantly in control of ourselves. Our bodies and minds, though, have other … Continue reading Book Review: The First Time I Thought I Was Dying by Sarah Walker
Book Review: Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
About the Book: WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2019 TIME’s #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her … Continue reading Book Review: Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
Book Review: The Borgias by Paul Strathern
The Borgias… About the Book: The sensational story of the rise and fall of one of the most notorious families in history, by the author of The Medici. The Borgia family have become a byword for evil. Corruption, incest, ruthless megalomania, avarice and vicious cruelty - all have been associated with their name. But the … Continue reading Book Review: The Borgias by Paul Strathern
Book Review: How to Think Like Shakespeare by Scott Newstok
How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education... About the Book: A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfully. How to Think like Shakespeare offers an enlightening and entertaining guide to the craft of thought — one … Continue reading Book Review: How to Think Like Shakespeare by Scott Newstok
Book Review: The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story... SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2020 About the Book: London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor – a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research – begins … Continue reading Book Review: The Haunting of Alma Fielding by Kate Summerscale
Author Talks: Sue Williams on discovering two remarkable friends and their shared story of changing the world, one patient at a time
I first met Australian icon Dr Catherine Hamlin when I went travelling in Ethiopia at the end of 2017. I spent a few days at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital talking to her for a magazine article, and learning about her tremendous work caring for girls and women who were suffering debilitating childbirth injuries, and … Continue reading Author Talks: Sue Williams on discovering two remarkable friends and their shared story of changing the world, one patient at a time
Theresa Smith Writes 