Full disclosure: I actually thought this book was about owls and diabetes. I also had no idea who David Sedaris was: a naturalist, I assumed. His name was familiar to me and I really like owls, plus the book was free. Thinking back, I’m pretty sure the only thing I actually knew about him is he was on Aisha Tyler’s fabulous podcast Girl on Guy once, but the interview has not stuck in my head in any way more memorable than, “He’s pretty funny. And he […]
I have a love affair with the work of Douglas Adams. Starting from a young age, when my elder brother brought home some books with covers that linked up to make a bigger picture (mind blown!). He has a turn of phrase that I find relentlessly hilarious. Dirk Maggs produces radio dramatisations for BBC radio, something I discovered a couple of years ago, when Good Omens (a top 10 book for me) was on the radio at Christmastime. (Spoiler: it was phenomenal.) So, imagine my joy when I found a […]
Kyle Davis is a powerful CEO, who lost his entire family in the Boxing Day tsunami. He was sleeping off a bender and blames himself for their deaths. Jordan Hastings is a vintner, who recently broke off her engagement, when her fiance stole her credit for an award-winning wine. This particular Christmas, they are forced by circumstance to spend a week together in Kyle’s secluded property in Margaret River (for non-West Australians, “Margs” used to be cheap and populated by hippies and surfers, but is […]
My local secondhand book shop told me they had a run on requests for this book in the last six months – a waiting list for copies in the double digits. Not too shabby for a book published in 2000, right? Obviously, getting made into a movie starring Kate Winslett and basically every Australian actor ever (short of Hugh Jackman) doesn’t hurt. This was a read for my book club. As locating a copy through my local or through the library was virtually impossible with […]
