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This month's Giveaway!


 
As we head towards Easter, this month's book giveaway is Sweet Greek!


Renowned for her ‘Sweet Greek’ produce shop, Kathy Tsaples now shares her favourite recipes learned in her mother’s kitchen, in this beautifully produced book.
 
To win a copy of Sweet Greek just send an email to rita@melbournebooks.com.au




 

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Hot this month

Noise in My Head
The Ugly Australian Underground documents the music, songwriting, aesthetics and struggles of fifty of Australia’s most innovative and significant bands and artists currently at the creative peak of their careers. The book provides a rare insight into the critically heralded cult music scene in Australia. The author, Jimi Kritzler, is both a journalist and a musician.


Soldier Boys
While ‘voluntary’ cadet training was a feature of Australian and New Zealand schools during the mid-nineteenth century, a form of ‘compulsory’ cadet training became the norm from 1910 through to the 1920s, in both government and non-government schools. In this respect, Australia was ‘more British than the British’, as there was no compulsory military training in the schools of Great Britain, or in any other British Empire countries during this period.
 

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In Roman Daze: La Dolce Vita for All Seasons, Bronté Jackson describes how the seasons, food, family, landscape, rituals and history combine to create and explain the Italian lifestyle and why, from the outside, it looks like La Dolce Vita.  Bronté Jackson’s perceptive and humorous memoir takes your hand as she walks through the streets of the city, infects you with her passion for Rome, its quirks and eccentricities and debunks a number of the myths of La Dolce Vita. 

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Susan Cutsforth and her husband, Stuart, are ‘ordinary’ people living an extraordinary life. They both work full-time: one is a teacher librarian of thirty years, and the other, a middle-level clerk in the public service. But, as Susan recounts in Our House is Not in Paris, they own a holiday house, Pied de la Croix, in Cuzance, a small village in the Lot in south-western France — the other side of the world. And not only that, this petite maison required significant renovating, which they accomplished almost single handed during their working holidays. 

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