On the Noodle Road by Jen Lin-Liu is an appetite-whetting journalistic encounter with the delights and pleasures of the table via the humble noodle

Feasting her way through an Italian honeymoon, Jen Lin-Liu was struck by culinary echoes of the delicacies she ate and cooked back in China, where she’d lived for more than a decade.

Who really invented the noodle? she wondered, like many before her.

With her new husband’s blessing, she set out along the ancient trading route of the Silk Road to discover the connections, both historical and personal, eating a path through western China and on into Central Asia, Iran, Turkey, and across the Mediterranean.

Her fascinating journey takes Lin-Liu into the private kitchens where the head scarves come off and women not only knead and simmer but also confess and confide.

The thin rounds of dough stuffed with meat that are dumplings in Beijing evolve into manti in Turkey – their tiny size the measure of a bride’s worth – and end as tortellini in Italy.

And as she stirs and tastes, listening to the women talk about their lives and longings, Lin-Liu gains a new appreciation of her own marriage, learning to savour the sweetness of love freely chosen.

‘Some writers follow the money; Jen Lin-Liu follows the noodle.’ – Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

About the Author

JEN LIN-LIU was born in California but has lived in China for more than half of her adult life. The founder of Black Sesame Kitchen, a Beijing cooking school, she is the author of a previous book, Serve the People: A Stir-Fried Journey through China. She has written about food, culture, and travel for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Saveur, Newsweek, Travel + Leisure, and others.

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The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan is a stunning debut novel that has won major acclaim, the Irish Book Awards 2012 and, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013

The Spinning Heart

Donal Ryan

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Gypsy: A World of Colour and Interiors by Sibella Court who is at heart a gypsy, spending much of her time on the road, tinkering, travelling ancient trade routes and fossicking for treasure.

In her latest book, be inspired by the softly painted buildings of Ecuador and Galapagos; the moody highlands of Scotland; the wild woods of Transylvania; the Iznik tiles of Turkey; and the ancient tranquillity of Indochine. Gypsy is a sumptuous stylist′s guide featuring Sibella′s unforgettable interiors that will inspire you to interpret faraway lands in your own styling.

Featuring Sibella′s favourite sources, trade secrets and suppliers – Gypsy also shows you how to create your own colour palettes from what you have around you or from found treasures, and through simple, practical and surprising ways shows you how to use those palettes to create interiors layered with stories, experiences and meaning.

About Sibella Court

Sibella Court is an interior stylist, owner of The Society inc. store., product designer and bestselling author of the books Etcetera etc, The stylist’s guide to NYC, Nomad and Bowerbird. She creates commercial interiors for clients in Australia and overseas, contributes to leading interior and fashion magazines and has a 110-paint colour paint range as well as soap, decorative hardware ranges. She works regularly with Anthropologie and will be launching a clothing, scent and bed linen range with the retailer this year.

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Peas & Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners by Sandi Toksvig who delivers an entertaining and down-to-earth guide to what to do and why to do it in the confusing world of modern manners

How do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there’s a racket in the quiet carriage? How to behave, like how to punctuate, is an aspect of life that many are no longer taught ? and getting it wrong is the stuff of comedy at best and humiliation at worst. Thankfully, Sandi Toksvig has come to the rescue with her entertaining guide to modern manners,with tips on what to do whether you’re talking to a bore, or forgot their name in the first place. (Just call them ‘darling’.)

The award-winning Radio 4 broadcaster and writer offers guidance on the social pitfalls of every phase of life, from christenings to condolence letters – and has uncovered fascinating details about how our manners have changed across time, from the earliest etiquettes (little cards to remind courtiers how to behave) to the changing nature of spoons. With characteristic wit and perceptiveness, and revealing the trickiest of her encounters along the way, she highlights decency rather than convention and provides an essential guide to twenty-first century behaviour.

About the Author

Sandi Toksvig is a well known broadcaster for both television and radio. She has written more than twenty books including fiction and non-fiction for both adults and children, is a regular columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine and in September 2012 her latest play ‘Bully Boy’ was the opening production for London’s first new theatre in thirty years, the St James. Sandi is the new Chancellor of Portsmouth University.

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Lantern Cookery Classics Box Set Volume 1 by Fav Australian Cooks & Chefs s the gift that keeps on giving and one you need for your loved one’s Xmas stocking

Just in time for Christmas, comes the first volume box set of recipes from a selection of the most admired cooks and chefs in Australia including Stephanie Alexander, Maggie Beer, Kylie Kwong, Matt Moran, Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris. Soon you will be cooking up a storm.

Australian cooking is all about the integration of the many and varied cultures that today make up our nation.

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Sins of the Flesh by Colleen McCullough is her finest mystery yet, her hero involved in plot that turns on the sort of science McCullough herself knows so well

It’s August 1969 in the sleepy college town of Holloman, Connecticut, and police Captain Carmine Delmonico is away on vacation. Back at home, first one, then two anonymous male corpses turn up-emaciated and emasculated. After connecting the victims to four other bodies, Sergeant Delia Carstairs and Lieutenant Abe Goldberg realize that Holloman has a psychopathic killer on the loose. Luckily, Carmine decides to come back from vacation early.

Carmine’s team begins to circle a trio of eccentrics, who readily admit to knowing all the victims, but their stories keep changing. They share family ties, painful memories, and a dark past. One of them is a new friend of Carmine’s invaluable sergeant, Delia Carstairs, as is the respected head of the mental hospital, who has been doing groundbreaking work rehabilitating one very difficult patient who is now her trusted assistant. When another vicious murder rocks Holloman, Carmine faces the revelation that two killers are at large with completely different modus operandi even as he barely escapes being next in the body count. Suddenly the summer isn’t so sleepy anymore.

A riveting mystery series by an author of astounding range and skill, Colleen McCullough’s Carmine Delmonico books take you back to an age of classic police work, before DNA analysis and computers.

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Colleen McCullough was born in western New South Wales in 1937. A neuroscientist by training, she worked in various Sydney and English hospitals before settling into ten years of research and teaching in the Department of Neurology at the Yale Medical School in the USA. In 1974 her first novel, Tim, was published in New York, followed by the bestselling The Thorn Birds in 1977 and a string of successful novels, including the acclaimed Masters of Rome series. In 1980 she settled in Norfolk Island, where she lives with her husband, Ric Robinson, and a cat named Shady.

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The World According to Karl has a forword by Patrick Mauriès and Edited by Jean-Christophe Napias, and contains the wit and wisdom of the world’s most admired fashion designer Karl Lagerfield

A modern master of couture Karl Lagerfield is also famously outspoken: his wise, surprising statements pop up like offbeat news flashes. This collection of quotations pays homage to the legendary éminence grise of the fashion world.

Lagerfeld’s pronouncements – on fashion, women, art, politics, love, and life high and low – are famously oracular, seized upon by fashionistas, acolytes and sages around the world.

Created with the full approval of the designer himself, this cornucopia of Lagerfeld’s maxims is required reading for us all today as we negotiate the trickiest curves of modern life.

Cultivated, unpredictable, provocative, sometimes shocking, Lagerfeld’s ‘bons mots’ are always impossible to ignore.

While simultaneously running Chanel, Fendi, and his own eponymous fashion house, he has consistently re-invented trends on the catwalk and in the street for half a century. His wise, surprising statements pop up like offbeat news flashes and are regularly seized upon by fashionistas, acolytes, and sages the world over.

Here, in his own deadpan words, are his exacting opinions on everything-from fashion, style, women, and Chanel to fame, life, and books. This is the ultimate repertoire of wit and wisdom from fashion’s sharpest pin. “I only know how to play one role: me.” “Think pink. But don’t wear it.” “I like everything to be washable, myself included.” “Change is the healthiest way to survive.” “I don’t recommend myself as a guest.” “There is one thing I love on earth: to learn.”

Jean-Christophe Napias is an author, translator and editor of books on dandies, dance music and camp culture. Sandrine Gulbenkian is director of Parigramme, a Parisian publishing house. Patrick Mauriès is a writer and publisher of many notable titles on fashion and design, including Jewelry by Chanel, also published by Thames & Hudson.

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The Tournament by Matthew Reilly is set in the glittering city of Constantinople where the most amazing chess game ever staged happens affecting many futures

The year is 1546 and Suleiman the Magnificent, the powerful and feared Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, issues an invitation to every king in Europe:

YOU ARE INVITED TO SEND YOUR FINEST PLAYER TO COMPETE IN A CHESS TOURNAMENT TO DETERMINE THE CHAMPION OF THE KNOWN WORLD

The English delegation – led by esteemed scholar Roger Ascham – journeys to the glittering city of Constantinople. Accompanying Ascham is his pupil, Bess, who is about to bear witness to events she never thought possible. For on the first night of the tournament, a powerful guest of the Sultan is murdered, and against the backdrop of the historic event, Ascham is tasked with finding the killer.

Barbaric deaths, unimaginable depravity and diplomatic treachery unfold before Bess’s eyes, indelibly shaping her character and determining how she will perform her future role…as Queen Elizabeth I.

EVEN A PAWN CAN BECOME A QUEEN

About the Author

Matthew Reilly is the international bestselling author of eleven novels: Contest, Ice Station, Temple, Area 7, Scarecrow, Hover Car Racer, Hell Island, Seven Ancient Wonders, The Six Sacred Stones, The Five Greatest Warriors and Scarecrow and the Army of Thieves. His books are published in over 20 languages, with worldwide sales exceeding 4 million copies.

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 The Perfect Wife by bestselling author Katherine Scholes is all about the need to follow the call of your heart, wherever it may lead you

The concept of the ‘Perfect Wife’ came out of Victorian England, when Coventry Patmore wrote a poem about his wife Emily, who had just died called ‘The Angel in the House.

She was seen as a heroine for after bearing him six children she succumbed to tuberculosis in 1862 and in the poem he described her goodness and virtues. Consequently every Victorian Gentlemen wished his wife to perfectly emulate Emily, as well as be endowed with beauty and innocence of manner.

Not an easy task for some and certainly hard for the women who came after her to live up to. It climaxed in the 1950′s, with men expecting their women to remain chaste and always virtuous. However the ‘swinging sixties’ would change everything.

Kitty Hamilton arrives in Tanganyika with high hopes for her new life. An exciting adventure halfway across the world could be just what she and Theo need to recover from the scandal that almost tore them apart.

She is determined to play the role of the perfect wife, but her dreams soon begin to unravel.  Theo is distracted with his important British government post, and while Kitty had imagined doing valuable work of her own, she finds that choosing the right frock to wear to the club is the biggest challenge of her day.

In this wild and foreign land, where very different powers prevail, the head can’t always rule the heart. As old wounds resurface and new passions ignite, Kitty and Theo confront emotions that push them beyond the boundaries of all that they know and believe in.

This is a breathtaking story about the struggle between duty and desire, jealousy and love, commitment and freedom.

Praise for Katherine Scholes:

‘A magnificent portrait of a passionate woman, a superb romantic saga.’ Elle

‘Every breath is a love song for Africa.’ Le Monde

The Perfect Wife (Paperback)

Katherine Scholes

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Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History by Robert M. Edsel will have you on the edge of the seat as a select group rescue the worlds greatest art treasures

From 1943 to 1951, 350 or so men and women from thirteen Allied nations served as the men and women of the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives section (MFAA) of the Allied armed forces, the eyes, ears and hands of the first and most ambitious effort in history to preserve the world’s cultural heritage in times of war.

They were known simply as Monuments Men. But during the thick of the fighting in Europe, from D-Day to V-E Day, when Germany surrendered, there were only sixty-five Monuments Men in the forward operating area. Sixty-five men to cover thousands of square miles, save hundreds of damaged buildings and find millions of cultural items before the Nazis could destroy them forever.

Monuments Men is the story of eight of these men in the forward operating theatre: America’s top art conservator; an up-and-coming young museum curator; a sculptor; a straight-arrow architect; a gay New York cultural impresario; and an infantry private with no prior knowledge of or appreciation for art, but first-hand experience as a victim of the Nazi regime.

They built their own treasure maps from scraps and hints: the diary of a Louvre curator who secretly tracked Nazi plunder through the Paris rail yards; records recovered from bombed out cathedrals and museums; overheard conversations; a tip from a dentist while getting a root canal.

How does the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History end? As is often the case, history is often more extraordinary than fiction.

They started off moving in different directions, but ended up heading for the same place at the same time: the Alps near the German-Austrian border in the last two weeks of the war, where the great treasure caches of the Nazis were stored: the artwork of Paris, stolen mostly from Jewish collectors and dealers; masterworks from the museums of Naples and Florence; and the greatest prize of all, Hitler’s personal hoard of masterpieces, looted from the most important art collections and museums in Europe and hidden deep within a working salt mine – a mine the Nazis had every intention of destroying before it fell into Allied hands.

Watch the Trailer featuring George Clooney & Matt Damon

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