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GREAT READS
Her Overseas Beatriz Williams
Allen and Unwin, $36.99 When 20-something Wall Street analyst Kate Wilson attracts the notice of the legendary Julian Laurence at a business meeting, no one's more surprised than she. Julian's relentless energy and his extraordinary intellect electrify her, but she's baffled by his sudden interest. Why would this handsome British billionaire - Manhattan's most eligible bachelor - pursue a pretty but bookish young banker who hasn't had a boyfriend since college?
Here's a quick look at some of our top picks for reads this month:
Everyday Sunday 01 Ray McVinnie
3 Times a Day Publishers, $35 Ray McVinnie's long-awaited cookbook, Everyday Sunday 01, features 80 recipes that first appeared in the Sunday Star Times, Sunday magazine. These recipes have now been brought together, in the first of a series of books to feature all your favourites.
The answer is beyond imagining, at least at first. Kate and Julian's story may not have begun in the moneyed world of 21stC Manhattan but in France during World War I, when a mysterious American woman emerged from the shadows of the Western Front to save the life of Captain Julian Laurence Ashford, a celebrated war poet and infantry officer. Now, in modern-day New York, Kate and Julian must protect themselves from the secrets of the past, and trust in a true love that transcends time and space.
OUR TOP PICK: The best novel to read this month
My Hundred Lovers Susan Johnson
Allen and Unwin, $34.99 A woman on the eve of her fiftieth birthday reflects on her life in the extraordinary, beautiful and shocking new novel from one of Australia's premiere novelists. 'Confronting the inevitable desiccation of her ageing body, a woman reflects on her life as an erotic adventurer, and through these vivid stories of the flesh, a mind and a soul emerge in full. Susan Johnson is a writer in her prime, and her most enduring love affair is with language itself.' Geraldine Brooks That afternoon in the small bedroom the light was blue. The curtains were cream and blew softly in the wind. There was a cry, far off, almost out of earshot. There was a man in my bed and I did not know how he got there.
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At Home On The Range Margaret Yardley Potter, Elizabeth Gilbert
Allen and Unwin, $39.99 With an introduction from Elizabeth Gilbert, Margaret's great- granddaughter, this unearthed treasure is both a beautifully- written, useful cookbook and an insight into a lifestyle previously forgotten. Recently, while moving into a new house, Elizabeth Gilbert unpacked some boxes of family books that had been sitting in her mother's attic for decades. Among the old, dusty hardbacks was a book called At Home on the Range (or, How To Make Friends with Your Stove) by Gilbert's great-grandmother, Margaret Yardley Potter. Having only been peripherally aware of the volume, Gilbert dug in with some curiosity and soon found that she had stumbled upon a book far ahead of its time. In her workaday cookbook Potter espoused the importance of farmer's markets and ethnic food (Italian, Jewish, and German), derided preservatives and culinary shortcuts, and generally celebrated a devotion to seeking out new epicurean adventures.
