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The Railway Man by Eric Lomax

Posted on December 13th, 2013 by in War

The Railway Man by Eric Lomax is a major movie of war starring Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman, and a story about the enduring power of love to heal deep wounds

During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio.

Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife, Patti Lomax, and of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture, he came terms with what happened.
Fifty years after the terrible events, he was able to meet one of his tormentors.

This is a powerful story of innocence betrayed, and of survival and courage in the face of horror.

Railway Man

Lomax, Eric

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For Today I Am A Boy by Kim Fu

Posted on December 11th, 2013 by in Fiction, Young Adults

For Today I Am A Boy by Kim Fu is about a young man, a much loved only boy in a Chinese Canadian family, who had since he was first aware known he was a girl

Finding one’s place in the world can be hard, but sometimes even more elusive, is finding where you fit in your family.

Peter Huang and his sisters—elegant Adele, shrewd Helen, and Bonnie the bon vivant—grow up in a house of many secrets, then escape the confines of small-town Ontario and spread from Montreal to California to Berlin. Peter’s own journey is obstructed by playground bullies, masochistic lovers, Christian ex-gays, and the ever-present shadow of his Chinese father.

At birth, Peter had been given the Chinese name juan chaun, powerful king. The exalted only son in the middle of three daughters, Peter was the one who would finally embody his immigrant father’s ideal of power and masculinity. But Peter has different dreams: he is certain he is a girl.

Drawing comparisons from Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex to the work of Amy Tan. Sensitive, witty, and stunningly assured, Kim Fu’s debut novel lays bare the costs of forsaking one’s own path in deference to one laid out by others.

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Australian Wine Companion 2014 by James Halliday

Posted on December 10th, 2013 by in Wine

Australian Wine Companion 2014 by James Halliday is an indispensable reference from the country’s leading wine authority with Australian wine reviews and tasting notes

It is a must-have guide for anyone visiting a winegrowing region, or wanting to replenish their cellar or wine rack.

Keenly anticipated by winemakers, faithful collectors and wine lovers alike, the 2014 edition has been completely revised and updated to bring you up-to-the-minute information.

In his inimitable style, Halliday shares his extensive knowledge of wine through detailed tasting notes, each with vintage-specific ratings and advice on optimal drinking as well as each wine’s closure, alcohol content and price. He provides information about wineries and winemakers, including vineyard sizes, opening times and contact details.

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James Halliday

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First Victory by Mike Carlton

Posted on December 9th, 2013 by in War

First Victory by Mike Carlton is about HMAS Sydney and hunt for the German raider Emden whose trail of destruction in the first months of the war was a disaster

Mike Carlton has had a life-long passion for naval history.

This one small ship and her skilled and gallant captain wrought havoc on the maritime trade of the British Empire, capturing and sinking ships at will and he wanted to tell the story from an Australian perspective.

Australia, sending wool, wheat and gold across the Indian Ocean to sustain the Mother Country and dispatching tens of thousands of young men to join the fight, had a vital interest in bringing Emden to her end. The battle, when it came, was short and bloody, an emphatic First Victoryat sea for the newborn Royal Australian Navy. It remains to this day a celebrated epic of naval warfare.In the century since, many writers have been there before Mike Carlton. Most were German, some of them survivors of the battle, others later historians, and they have generally told the story well.
British accounts vary in quality, from good to nonsense, and there have been some patchwork American attempts as well. Curiously, there was very little written from an Australian point of view before Mike Carlton’s book.
So it is – in part – an attempt to remedy that, with new facts and perspectives brought into the light of day.
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“On the morning of October 4, 1913, Sydney Harbour was lined with thousands of Australians eager to catch their first glimpse of the Royal Australian Navy. As the battlecruiser HMAS Australia, cruisers Melbourne, Sydney and Encounter, and destroyers Warrego, Parramatta and Yarra sailed into the Harbour for the first time, it marked a key moment in Australian defence history. The Royal Australian Navy, long years in the making, had arrived to make its mark.

Less than a year later the First World War broke out, and thousands of men were sent away to fight for their country. The RAN was ready to defend Australia’s long coastline and overseas trade from a powerful German enemy. The Kaiser’s cruiser SMS Emden,a lone raider already at sea on the outbreak of war, was poised to strike. For four months she captured and sank Allied ships, crippling trade and earning a reputation as the most hunted ship on the seas.

On November 9, 1914, the cruiser HMAS Sydney came across the Emden in the Indian Ocean. In a short, bloody battle, she pounded the German ship to pieces. It was a triumphant first victory for the Australian Royal Navy, celebrated to this day’

About the Author
Mike Carlton is one of Australia’s best-known broadcasters and journalists. In a 40-year career, he has been a radio and television news and current affairs reporter, foreign correspondent, radio host and newspaper columnist.He was an ABC war correspondent in Vietnam in 1967 and 1970, and for three years was the ABC’s Bureau Chief in Jakarta. He also reported for the ABC from London, New York and major Asian capitals. In television, he was one of the original reporters on the ABC’s groundbreaking This Day Tonightin the 1970s. Mike turned to talk radio in 1980, first at Sydney’s 2GB, and then for four years in London at Newstalk 97.3FM, where he won a coveted Sony Radio Academy award in 1993 for Britain’s best talk breakfast program.
In television, he reported and hosted Indonesia: A Reporter Returns, a three-part documentary for SBS in 2008. He has recently retired from the Radio 2UE breakfast program in Sydney and has returned to writing a column for the Saturday edition of the Sydney Morning Herald.

First Victory: 1914

Mike Carlton

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Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus by Stephen Dando-Collins

Posted on December 9th, 2013 by in Australia, Biography, Celebrity, Cultural Studies, Culture, History, Non-Fiction, Politics, Reference

Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus by Stephen Dando-Collins is about the Father of Federation Premier of NSW a Visionary Political Leader Poet & Humanist

May 27, 2015 brings the 200th anniversary of the birth of Sir Henry Parkes an Australian giant and all around good fellow.
After he died, the London Times described him as ‘a colonial colossus.’Henry Parkes received little schooling and worked on a rope-walk, breaking stones, as an ivory and bone turner, ironmonger, labourer and on the wharves before trying business life and ultimately politics. He and his first wife travelled to Australia on an assisted passage. Parkes steadily educated himself, reading voraciously and widely, including all the great poets.There has never been anyone else like Sir Henry Parkes in Australian public life. Not only was he the father of federation. His friends included Thomas Carlyle, fellow poet Lord Tennyson and British Prime Minister Gladstone. He convinced Florence Nightingale to send trained nurses to Australia.He conceived the international rabbit competition which led to the Pasteur affair and put Australia at the forefront of microbiology. He encouraged talented men to enter politics. Yet he shunned the limelight, rarely attending social functions.

Whenever he received begging letters, (which he did, daily), Parkes always wrote back enclosing money. No wonder he went bankrupt three times! Yet he was Premier of NSW 5 times, leaving its finances well in the black every time. He married three times, the last time to a 23-year-old beauty.

Clearly, Parkes loved women, and they loved him. He encouraged women to attend political meetings, even though they didn’t have the vote. NSW Parliament House dining room was managed by a husband and wife; when the husband died, Parliament wanted to fire his widow, but Parkes stood up for her, saying she was perfectly capable of managing the dining room on her own, which she did for years to come.
But not everyone loved Sir Henry; he had a long-running feud with poet Henry Lawson’s mother after Parkes wouldn’t give young Lawson the help she demanded. He constantly wrestled with political aspirants chasing his seat.
About the Author
Stephen Dando-Collins is the author of the acclaimed Captain Bligh’s Other Mutiny. Pasteur’s Gambit was shortlisted for the science prize in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards and won the Queensland Premier’s Science Award. Crack Hardy, his most personal history, received wide acclaim. Mistaken Identity tells another episode of previously undiscovered Australian history. Sir Henry Parkes: The Australian Colossus is a biography of Australia’s Father of Federation. He also writes about American and ancient Greek history, and his series about the legions of ancient Rome has found considerable success in the US, UK and Australia and been translated into numerous foreign languages. Stephen has also written several books for children including the Caesar the War Dog series and Chance in a Million. Stephen and his wife, Louise, live and write in a former nunnery in Tasmania’s Tamar Valley. – See more at: http://www.randomhouse.com.au/books/stephen-dando-collins/sir-henry-parkes-the-australian-colossus-9781742757971.aspx#sthash.VHiNOQeK.dpuf

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The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright

Posted on December 9th, 2013 by in Adventure, Australia, Cultural Studies, History, Literature, Reference, Society, Young Adults

The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka by Clare Wright is the uncut story of the day the Australian people found their voice.

The story is one of Australia’s foundation legends, but until now it has been told as though only half the participants were there.

What if the hot-tempered, free-wheeling gold miners we learnt about in school were actually husbands and fathers, brothers and sons? And what if there were women and children inside the Eureka Stockade, defending their rights while defending themselves against a barrage of bullets? As Clare Wright reveals, there were thousands of women on the goldfields and many of them were active in pivotal roles.

The stories of how they arrived there, why they came and how they sustained themselves make for fascinating reading in their own right.

But it is in the rebellion itself that the unbiddable women of Ballarat come into their own.

Groundbreaking, absorbing, crucially important, this is a novel perfect for everyone’s Christmas Giving Hit List.

About the Author

Clare Wright is an historian who has worked as a political speechwriter, university lecturer, historical consultant and radio and television broadcaster. Her first book, Beyond the Ladies Lounge: Australia’s Female Publicans, garnered both critical and popular acclaim. She researched, wrote and presented the ABC television documentary Utopia Girls and is currently writing a four-part series to commemorate the centenary of WWI for ABC1. She lives in Melbourne with her husband and three children

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Dreaming Too Loud: Reflections on a Race Apart by Geoffrey Robertson

Posted on December 7th, 2013 by in Australia, Cultural Studies, Culture, Humour, Inspirational, Motivational

Dreaming Too Loud: Reflections on a Race Apart by Geoffrey Robertson is delivered with the author’s renowned trademark intelligence, humour and humanity.

“Here is a broad and liberal mind at work on some of the big questions of our time: a powerhouse display of insight and good humour’ says Mike Carlton.

Robertson’s expatriate (but not ex-patriot) vision picks the real winners and losers in the Australian race.

Geoffrey Robertson has been described as ‘the greatest living Australian’. The  satirical magazine Private Eye calls him ‘an Australian who has had a vowel transplant’. Just before he was to cross-examine Princess Diana, the London Timescomplained that he was ‘anti-establishment, republican and Australian’ – in ascending order of horror.Internationally recognised as one of the world’s leading human rights lawyers and as an intellectual inspiration for the global justice movement, he regularly boomerangs back from leading Europe’s largest civil liberties practice to the land of his birth and his youth.
Just as his Hypotheticals dazzled television audiences, so the speeches and essays collected in this book provoke, disturb and entertain.

Here you will find new heroes in our history, such as the schoolteacher who stopped Ned Kelly’s planned terrorist atrocity at Glenrowan, and the squadron leader who led ‘the few’ – the airmen who held the Japanese at bay after the fall of Singapore.

There are insights into Australian education, the story of wrongly jailed Aboriginal mother Nancy Young, encounters with Vaclav Havel, Rupert Murdoch, Michael Kirby, John Mortimer and Julian Assange, the transcript of a previously banned Hypothetical, reflections on worldwide problems such as torture, terrorism and the Catholic church, and much else besides.

About the Author
Geoffrey Robertson QC is a leading human rights lawyer and a UN war-crimes judge. He has been counsel in many notable Old Bailey trials, has defended hundreds of men facing death sentences in the Caribbean, and has won landmark rulings on civil liberty from the highest courts in Britain, Europe and the Commonwealth. He was involved in cases against General Pinochet and Hastings Banda, and in the training of judges who tried Saddam Hussein. His book Crimes against Humanity has been an inspiration for the global justice movement, and he is the author of an acclaimed memoir, The Justice Game, and the textbook Media Law. He is married to Kathy Lette. Mr Robertson is Head of Doughty Street Chambers, a Master of the Middle Temple, a Recorder and visiting professor at Queen Mary College, University of London.

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On the Noodle Road by Jen Lin-Liu

Posted on December 3rd, 2013 by in Celebrity, Cooking, Culture, Food

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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Jen Lin-Liu

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The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan

Posted on December 2nd, 2013 by in Fiction

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

My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in. I go there every day to see is he dead and every day he lets me down. He hasn’t yet missed a day of letting me down.” In the aftermath of Ireland’s financial collapse, dangerous tensions surface in an Irish town. As violence flares, the characters face a battle between public persona and inner desires. Through a chorus of unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds.

The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry, vulnerable, all-too human, it captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland and with uncanny perception articulates the words and thoughts of a generation. Technically daring and evocative of Patrick McCabe and J.M. Synge, this novel of small-town life is witty, dark and sweetly poignant.

Donal Ryan’s brilliantly realized debut announces a stunning new voice in literary fiction.

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Donal Ryan

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Gypsy: A World of Colour and Interiors by Sibella Court

Posted on November 30th, 2013 by in Antiques, Art and Antiques, Celebrity, Creative, Culture, Inspirational, Interior Decoration, Interiors, Non-Fiction, Reference, Society, Style, Travel

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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