What’s new in the AHL in May
Here are the Library team’s top recommendations Ten steps to Nanette by Hannah Gadsby 'There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.'-Hannah Gadsby, Nanette If you only read one biography - or even only one book this year, please make it Ten...
Yes, it’s really the April librarycook
A couple of firsts for the librarycook. Firstly, though she'd never claim to be the most organised, punctual woman in the world, she's usually managed to submit the monthly librarycook post in the actual month it belongs to. And secondly, never before has she...
The librarycook Marches through the Rain
When the March issue of Delicious arrived in the middle of Sydney's wettest ever summer, the librarycook was in need of comfort food. And Delicious was here to help - all manner of recipes to warm the cockles of the heart - Chicken with Creamy Mustard Sauce, a Roast...
What’s new in the AHL in March
Here are the Library team’s top recommendations The Gosling Girl by Jacqueline Roy Monster? Murderer? Child? Victim? Michelle Cameron’s name is associated with the most abhorrent of crimes. A child who lured a younger child away to her death, she is known as the...
What are you Reading?
All of the research shows us that one of the key things we can do as adults to help encourage the children around us to read, is to just read ourselves. Young children mimic the actions of those around them, meaning if our actions are centred around good reading...
February – A Hot and Spicy Librarycook
You'd think, thought the librarycook, that after decades of cooking, she'd have learned to read. The recipe, that is, not the book she can hardly tear herself from. But her attempt at Harissa Chicken Skewers with Couscous Salad would prove otherwise. How else to...
A gripping thriller
Book Review In an incredibly complex murder case of a former acquaintance, psychologist Joseph O’Loughlin has both his perfect professional life and his personal life completely rattled. Throughout Michael Robotham’s thrilling crime story The Suspect, we follow our...
Stage 3 Reading List
Hanna: My Holocaust Story by Goldie Alexander Hanna has dreams of being a gymnast. But in 1939 the Nazis invade her home, Warsaw, and everything changes. All Jews are being rounded up and being threatened. Her family escape to a farm with their housekeeper, but how...
Librarycook – a fishy story – November
"20 years of Delicious" screamed the November issue's cover, replete with a spectacularly meringuey cake. The librarycook has enjoyed many of the offerings of those 20 years, and dived headlong in, eager to see what would catch her eye. And what caught her eye first...
Stage 2 Reading List
Never Smile at a Monkey: And 17 Other Important Things to Remember by Steve Jenkins When it comes to wild animals, everyone knows that there are certain things you just don't do. It's clearly a bad idea to tease a tiger, pull a python's tail, or bother a black widow...
