All posts tagged "PRH"
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3.7KBooks & LiteratureCookbook Review: Ottolenghi SIMPLE, by Yotam Ottolenghi
Across 300+ pages and 130 recipes, chef Yotam Ottolenghi attempts to cater to the different definitions of 'simple cooking' that people hold, from preparing the day before, to whipping up something quick after work.
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1.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Star Wars: From a Certain Point of View, by various authors
Forty short stories retelling the original Star Wars film from the view point of other characters, from Stormtroopers and Sandpeople, to Aunt Beru and Obi-Wan at the moment of their deaths. Released for the 40th anniversary of the film.
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1.2KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Boat People, by Sharon Bala
A boat with five hundred Sri Lankan asylum seekers docks in Vancouver where the group are faced with allegations of terrorism and are forced to be detained and separated from their loved ones.
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1.6KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney by Graham Archer
A look into the Anna-Jane Cheney murder case. Cheney was an Adelaide lawyer murdered in the 1990s. Her fiancé, Henry Keogh, was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment, only to be released and have the charges dropped 21 years later.
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691Books & LiteratureBook Review: Fatal Inheritance, by Rachel Rhys
Eve Forrester escapes a loveless marriage in 1948 and journeys to the French Riviera after a mysterious bequest is left in her name but, while she rubs shoulders with the rich and famous, rivals to her unexplained fortune begin to emerge. Rivals who want her out of the way.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureAudiobook Review: Crazy Rich Asians, by Kevin Kwan
When Rachel Chu goes to Singapore with her boyfriend for his best mate's wedding, she has no idea just how ridiculously rich he and his friends are, nor how much effort his family will put into getting rid of her.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Russian Affair, by Adrian d’Hage
An egomaniacal US President, a power hungry Russian President, and a call to nuclear arms pits CIA operative Connor Curtis in a race against time following the pursuits of a Russian scientist whose approach is deadly, in more ways than one.
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1.1KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: A Zero Waste Life in Thirty Days, by Anita Vandyke
The book is designed to be a guide, a workbook for the reader to use over a month. It offers tips and ideas to assess your current lifestyle and find ways to work towards decreasing the level of waste you produce.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: Mine, by Susi Fox
A doctor wakes after an emergency caesarean, and no-one believes her when she says the baby is not her own. But when everyone says you're just confused and delusional, can you trust your own memories?
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924Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind, by Barbara Lipska
This is a moving true account of the incredible journey through mental illness and back by neuroscientist Barbara Lipska when she discovered she had three tumours on her brain.
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699Books & LiteratureBook Review: Baby Teeth, by Zoje Stage
Hanna is her father’s pride and joy who can do no wrong, and she wants to make sure that it stays that way. There is only one problem: Mummy stands in the way.
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1.3KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Yellow Villa by Amanda Hampson
An Australian couple in their early thirties purchase an old yellow house in the picturesque village of Cordes-sur-Ciel in South-West France and become friends with a couple of ex–pat Brits in this tale of sadness, secrets, hopes and Karma.
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689Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy
A cast of characters caught up in the tide of history as Pakistan is formed, creating a tide of religious and social turmoil across India.
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1.7KBooks & LiteratureCookbook Review: Food Hacker, by Rosie Mansfield
Described as “clever cooking for busy people”, a food hack is an inexpensive recipe that takes under an hour, using familiar equipment in original ways.
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1.8KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: The Longevity Diet by Professor Valter Longo PhD
The Longevity Diet is a distillation of Professor Valter Longo's life's work, resolving what he believes to have caused the gap in life expectancy and levels of chronic illness rates between Italy and his adopted homeland, America.
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966Books & LiteratureBook Review: Dead Men’s Trousers, by Irvine Welsh
The fifth and final novel in the infamous Trainspotting series, picking up where "The Blade Artist" left us hanging, literally, in mid-air.
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941Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Honey Farm, by Harriet Alida Lye
An isolated honey farm is offer as an artists’ colony with free board and ‘life experience’ in exchange for a summer of hard labour but the idyllic summer is soon plagued by ominous events.
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732Books & LiteratureBook Review: Don’t Believe It, by Charlie Donlea
An investigative reporter creates a 'live' documentary, revealing what she finds as she finds it when she attempts to uncover the truth of a 10-year old murder.
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3.4KBooks & LiteratureBook Review: A Fat Lot of Good, by Dr Peter Brukner OAM
The Australian Cricket team’s physician, Dr Peter Brukner, offers new ways to tamper with your diet with practical tips that will help the reader implement his plan.
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659Books & LiteratureBook Review: The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, by Imogen Hermes Gowar
One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains is waiting eagerly on the step. He has sold Jonah’s ship for what appears to be a mermaid.
