Inside Out

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Kirsten completed her commercial cookery certificate before working behind the scenes on the first season of Masterchef Australia. She went on to assist food stylist Jody Vassallo on three French cookbooks in the UK, worked for 2½ years as the food e

Chat It's Fate

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Standing on my friend’s roof terrace in Los Angeles, staring up at the sky, I felt my heart begin to pound as I noticed something hovering above me. At first, I assumed it was an odd type of aeroplane or blimp, flying in a group. But on closer inspec

Harrowsmith

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Got a kitchen garden you tend to in the summer? We’d love to see your pics! Send them in, along with a wee story about how you got started, and what you grow and why, for a chance to win a copy of The Long Table Cookbook: Plant-Based Recipes for Opti

Chat It's Fate

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The ability to move objects through the power of your mind is known as psychokinesis. It’s a popular trope in films – in the X Menfranchise, for example, Jean Grey has this ability – but the science supporting its existence in real life is sketchy. T

UNCUT

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SURING the Super Bowl back in February, Bruce Springsteen starred in his first ever television commercial, a solemn clip called “The Middle” that found him driving a vintage Jeep through rural Kansas. Over shots of empty plains and close-ups of sturd

Woman's Day

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As a third-generation Scientologist, Kate Ceberano couldn’t have been prouder when her daughter Gypsy was accepted into the religion’s most prestigious school in the US. For the past year she’s been boarding at the mysterious Oregon institution where

Fortean Times

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By the time this issue hits the newsstands, we will know whether President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on 20January was marked by violent protest similar to that seen on 6 January in Washington DC, when thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters storm

Peppermint Magazine

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There is an undercurrent of greed in the modern New Age world. It can be flimsy and half-hearted. It’s a place that doesn’t manufacture miracles but sells the possibility of them, framed in a modern context even as the ancient or extremely old aspect

High Country News

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IN A GEODESIC DOME in Joshua Tree, California, hundreds of festival-goers assemble for a workshop on prānāyāma, an ancient Hindu breathing practice. Amid an acoustic blend of drumming, chanting and birdsong, a workshop leader, flanked by “guardians”

All About History

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The Age of Reason was closely tied to the Age of Discovery, the colonial era in which Western powers, buoyed by their advanced technology, conquered and commandeered vast tracts of the rest of the world. In these mysterious new territories, notably A

Blue Mountains Life

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In their first cookbook La Vie Paysanne—30 Years of French Country Cookery, Bob and Barbara Ross tell the remarkable story of how their love of simple French cooking transformed a humble bistro into a revered Mediterranean restaurant. Over the pages

Shooting Times & Country

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Shooting Timeswas saddened to learn of the death of Prue Coats, who died at the age of 95 on 26 October. Prue was the wife of the late Archie Coats, a legendary figure in the world of pigeon shooting. She was for many years a columnist and cookery wr

Writing Magazine

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Paul Theroux received an outstanding contribution award at this year’s Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards. Other winners included: Travel Book of the Year: Underland, Robert Mcfarlane; Debut Travel Writer: Extreme Economies, Richard Davies; Advent

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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As a third-generation Scientologist, Kate Ceberano couldn’t have been prouder when her daughter Gypsy was accepted into the religion’s most prestigious school in the US. For the past year she’s been boarding at the mysterious Oregon institution where

JOY Magazine

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In a world where people are constantly grasping for deeper meaning, deeper spirituality, and a higher purpose, energy healing is one more New Age philosophy that presents itself as very desirable to human beings. Born with sin, we all come into the w

Literary Hub

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My second trip to heaven was more propitious than the first. I wasn’t alone this time, but accompanied by my friend Shannon, who works as a historic preservationist in Philadelphia. Shannon lent some professional credibility to our Sunday tour of Woo

New Idea

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Given Kelly was a devout Scientologist, as is John, many wondered if the actress chose to follow the controversial religion’s cancer treatment method. Founder L. Ron Hubbard believed cancer to be an alignment of the spirit, and required “a second-dyn

New Zealand Listener

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The books that have most influenced me are those that have fully immersed me in another world, where the characters linger with me years later, or where the author has written something unique. One that achieved all these is Keri Hulme’s THE BONE PEO

Writing Magazine

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Avon Books, the division of HarperCollins that publishes commercial fiction – predominantly women’s fiction and crime – is open for submissions. Authors published by Avon include CL Taylor, Sue Moorcroft, Scott Mariani and Philippa Ashley. Submit ful

Cricket Magazine

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“I’M SURROUNDED BY THOUSANDS OF WORDS.” OUT OF MY MIND by Sharon M. Draper submitted by Caroline A. Percival of San Antonio, TX “The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up.” CHAINS (The Seeds of America Trilogy) by Laurie Hal

SFX

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RELEASED 9 JULY 320 pages | Paperback/ebook/ audiobook Author Kat Ellis Publisher Penguin Books Author Kat Ellis Publisher Penguin Books Harrow Lake taps neatly into nostalgic hooks, and one of its key strengths is in creating a very believable histo

Literary Hub

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This is Playback, the self-interview series for authors with books coming out in quarantine. Today, Lucia LoTempio reads from her new book of poetry, Hot With the Bad Things, and reveals what book she wishes she had written, as well as what her dream

Good Housekeeping South Africa

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The Poisonwood Bible author Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel is as rich and rewarding as you would expect THIS STIRRING READ follows two stories set in Vineland, a town dominated by the schemes of its egotistical founder. It tells the stories of Thatc

BBC History Magazine

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We asked our Twitter followers which history books captured their childhood imaginations… I loved the Ladybird books on English monarchs – though I’m not sure the history was always sound... Horrible Histories. If Terry Deary had illustrated the Iris

Woman & Home

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This is the book that made me a writer. I believe that, historically and racially, there’s a lot that’s not right with the book, but I remember as a 13-year-old reading it and thinking I could smell the leather burning. It was the first time I though

Woolworths TASTE

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Marianna Leivaditaki is the head chef at Morito on Hackney Road in London. Her cookbook, Aegean – Recipes from the Mountains to the Sea, is published by Kyle Books and distributed in SA by Jonathan Ball Publishers. R620, octopusbooks.co.uk ■

Country Life

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IT is announced that the last word of the Oxford Dictionary has been sent to the press, and probably the work will be finished in two years more. It has been one of the greatest labours of modern times, and if mediaeval monks had done it, the last of

Woman & Home

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I was disappointed by the lack of diversity in your summer books special. Two of my favourite inspiring, fun and thought-provoking novels by contemporary writers are Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo, and Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. S

Writing Magazine

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‘It took me a long time to take my own writing positively and seriously because that little critical voice in my head kept telling me that publishing wasn’t a world open to me, and that no one could possibly want to read a novel I had written. ‘Yet t

SFX

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RELEASED OUT NOW! 496 pages | Paperback/ebook/audiobook Author Jordan Ifueko Publisher Hot Key Books This is Jordan Ifueko’s first novel, and it’s already evident that this young Nigerian-American author is going to be one hell of a force once she re