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BOOK REVIEWS Eurydice Street By Sofka Zinovieff ISBN 1 862 077177 A journalist who is now based in Athens, Sofka Zinovieff first fell in love with Greece as a student but little suspected that years later she would return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is Sofka’s story of making a home in a new culture, of ‘becoming Greek’, of her children adapting to a new language and lifestyle and of her husband returning to his roots after half a lifetime away. With the world focus on Athens this year as the home city of the Olympics this book is an apt read for 2004.
ISBN 1741143187 Written in Tim Bowden’s friendly, informative and accessible style and based on his own experience, This Can’t Happen to Me! is invaluable not only for those with Type 2 diabetes, their families, carers and health professionals, but for all of us at risk of developing this insidious, deadly disease. Weaving practical advice with humorous and inspiring personal stories, Tim Bowden explains everything you need to know about the world’s fastest growing chronic disease.
By Margaret Simons ISBN1 86508 588 X Until recently Margaret Simons lived in the Blue Mountains of NSW where she was largely self sufficient an experience that can only have helped in her search for the meaning of compost! This book is not so much a ‘how to’ as a social history of comost. Interspersed with interviews from obsessed composters who offer the secrets of their successs, this book is a humorous and entertaining read with a serious undertone showing the history of modern humanity as you’ve never seen it before – through its waste.
By Tim Fischer ISBN 1741144507 Some people may not know that former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer is also one of Australia’s foremost train enthusiasts! This book provides an entertaining commentary on the many hundreds of train trips he’s taken across the globe, the far flung places he’s visited and colourful anecdotes about the characters he’s met along the way. For trainspotters there is also plenty of rail history and technical information included as well. Also...
By Val Styles ISBN 0 9751496 0 1 This is a book about life, loss and new beginnings. Still Life is the result of the life changing journey Val Styles embarked upon when she lost her mother on the eve of Mother’s Day two years ago. It is a sensitive and inspirational book that is complemented with exquisite natural images by award-winning Australian photographer Stephen Turner. Within the pages of this book people will find a positive and uplifting attitude to life, through her own healing journey, Val has seen a path to help each of us to heal ourselves. A wonderful gift for yourself or for others, it is a beautifully presented book a delight to both the eye and the heart. |
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This Can’t Happen to Me!
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