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March 11th, 2021

Demystifying the myths and misconceptions that still swirl around a low-carb, high-fat diet

This entry was posted on 11 March 2021.

In the time of COVID-19, when the fatality rate for people with comorbidities like obesity and diabetes seems to be much higher when they contract the virus, Tim Noakes and Marika Sboros dispense invaluable dietary advice in their new book, The Eat Right Revolution

 

March 10th

March 4th

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States

This entry was posted on 04 March 2021.

Michelle Obama’s Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations – and whose story inspires us to do the same. In the interview below, she talks about finding true passion, dealing with self-doubt and learning to let life lead.

 

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February 26th

February 19th

Ways to remember...

This entry was posted on 19 February 2021.
For most of his adult life he has known that Namibia had once been a German colony, writes author Basil Lawrence. Yet only when he began researching his book At the Edge of the Desert did he begin to grasp what this meant for Namibia’s colonised people.
 

February 18th

Getting to know Julietta Henderson

This entry was posted on 18 February 2021.
Julietta Henderson was brought up in a book-loving family in the rainforests of North Queensland and has been writing professionally for more than 25 years. Having worked her way through jobs as diverse as a bicycle tour guide in Tuscany to an editor for a digital marketing agency, Julietta got serious about fiction writing when she completed a novel writing course in 2013. Now a full-time freelance feature and travel writer, Julietta divides her life mainly between Melbourne and the UK.
 

February 16th

Extract - The Promised Land by Barack Obama

This entry was posted on 16 February 2021.
In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency - a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.
 
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