Linda Doeser loves cookies. They are cheap and cheerful as well as quick to make. They are the marvelous money raiser for the school fete, a wicked way to your loved ones’ heart, perfect for pleasing the girls when they come for tea and, if you take them to the office you will create a [...]

Simple, sensible and easy to use, Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual by Michael Pllan is a set of memorable adages or ‘personal policies’ for eating wisely, gathered from a wide variety of sources: mothers, grandmothers, nutritionists, anthropologists and ancient cultures among them.
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. Using those seven words as his [...]

Antonia Fraser has had a thoroughly interesting life as an accomplished writer and, as well, as the wife of one of the world’s most intriguing men. Must You Go is all about her life with Harold Pinter
In essence, it is a love story and as with many love stories, the beginning and the end, [...]

The Life of Akmal charts Akmal’s early life in Egypt, with his eccentric family, to his totally different life in Australia. His first comedic gigs at Bikie conventions (coming on stage before the strippers), his marriage, and ever increasing success on stage and TV took him forward to become one of the best known and [...]

Tim Dedopulos has compiled a classic collection of The Greatest Puzzles Ever Solved for those who like to keep their minds healthy and active. Also a great gift for anyone who enjoys a challenge.
They are some of the finest puzzles ever seen, from throughout history. You’ll find cunning creations from Ancient Egypt and [...]

James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Record. 9th Judgement is his compelling, unstoppable best!
A psychopathic killer targets San Francisco’s most innocent and vulnerable A young mother and her infant child are ruthlessly gunned down while returning to their [...]

How do we become the life and soul of the party and not the party poopers? How do we age without growing old? Marie de Hennezel guides us through a true ‘art of growing old’ in The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body From Rusting.
‘It’s up to us, the baby-boomer generation, to invent [...]

In The Suspicions of Mr Whicher Kate Summerscale untangles the facts behind this notorious case, bringing it back to vivid, extraordinary life. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for 2010 this has all the hallmarks of the classic murder mystery – a body; a detective; a country house steeped in secrets.
It is a summer’s night [...]

The Empathic Civilization is sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin looks at the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development – and is likely to determine our fate as a species.
Today we face unparalleled challenges in an energy-intensive and interconnected world that [...]

When my three sons left home I gave them all a copy of the Commonsense Cookery Book. It was given to me by my mother and my mother had it from my grandmother.  It has sold over a million copies and gives you recipes for everything from how to make toast to how to boil [...]

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