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Book Review: Fifth Avenue 5am
A taxi pulls up on a quiet New York street. A young woman in a long black dress and a pearl necklace gets out of the car. Armed with a cup of coffee and a pastry in a paper bag, … Continue reading
Review: The Art of Being Melbourne
Maree Coote is a writer, photographer, designer and illustrator, who has used her visual style to create books that can be read and cherished. Maree Coote’s first book The Melbourne Book: A History of Now (2003) is a celebration of … Continue reading
Review- The Bogan Delusion
A couple of years ago, David Nichols and his wife, artist Mia Schoen, bought a house in Jacana, in Broadmeadows and moved out of the inner city. The Bogan Delusion was written during David’s commute from his new home to … Continue reading
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Review-The Freudian Slip
It is Sydney 1963, and Desi, Bea and Stella are three women working in a Sydney advertising agency. Desi is a North Shore beauty in the television department producing ads, Bea is a copywriter, divorced, but looking to move on … Continue reading
Review- Cooking the books
Corinna Chapman, the bountiful baker is back in Kerry Greenwood’s latest installment Cooking the Books. With Daniel, her partner in love tracking down missing bonds and a missing girl, Corinna’s holiday plans of doing nothing segue into working for an … Continue reading
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Review: Elizabeth Taylor: Her Life in Style
Elizabeth Taylor: Her Life in Style by Susan Kelly. Elizabeth Taylor was one of the 20th century’s most glamorous and beautiful women, not to mention one of the most photographed. This is a woman who employed a photographer as part … Continue reading
Review: High Style
High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is written by Jan Glier Reeder who is Consulting Curator of the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection. Reeder spent 3 years assessing and documenting the collection … Continue reading
Review- The Dressmaker of Khair Khana
Kamila Sidiqi had just qualified as a teacher when the Taliban took control of Kabul, her city in 1996. With her parents and brother having been forced to leave Kabul, she is left as the sole breadwinner for herself and … Continue reading
Review: Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton and the marriage of the century
Famous celebrity couples often wield a power greater than the sum of its parts; Brangelina, and the Beckhams both come to mind. But for people of a certain age, the star couple which eclipses them all is Elizabeth Taylor and … Continue reading
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Book Review- Pride and Prejudice- The Wild and Wanton Version
15 years ago, my heart was all aflutter at the sight of a sodden Mr Darcy striding across the lawns of Pemberley in the TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice. In my mind this has remained the best visual adaptation … Continue reading
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