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Sweet things for the holiday season

December 22nd 2011 07:13

Christmas: the Australian women’s weekly cookbook cover

Sparkly decorations, icing sugar snow, pretty paper, and ribbons curled just so. It’s hard not to get caught up in the festive mood thumbing through this gem of a cookbook.

This beautiful, little book contains all things sweet: puddings, cakes, fudge, ice cream, brownies, nougat, tarts, biscuits, jams and more, including a clever recipe that will have kids eating fibre – a recipe for mini gingerbread houses, which uses All-bran on the roof.

While the recipes are yummy additions to the Christmas table, many of them are perfect as gifts. There are even a couple of pages on gift packaging ideas. I particularly like the suggestion of using paper doilies to dress up jars.

If cooking doesn’t appeal to you, the cookbook itself is a great gift. You might even want to leave a bookmark conveniently on the, say, Parisian macaroons recipe. Mmm…

Christmas: the Australian women’s weekly
Food Director: Pamela Clark
ACP Books, 2008

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The Sorceress: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

August 1st 2009 01:06

Book 3 of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott

Scott does not disappoint with his latest instalment of the series where new characters, both human and inhuman, are drawn into the conflict. The Dark Elders are running out of patience as the day Abraham’s prophecy is fulfilled draws closer. The pages from the Book of Abraham required for the Final Summoning have not been recovered from Nicholas Flamel and Sophie and Josh Newman, and without the pages the Elders can not reclaim the planet. The Flamels have opposed them for too long, and the Dark Elders are done waiting for their capture. John Dee has been ordered to destroy Nicholas, and Niccolo Machiavelli, Perenelle

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The Va Dinci Cod

June 23rd 2009 07:42

Robert Donglan, Professor of Annagrammotology, is rudely awaken at his London apartment and escorted by police to the National Art Gallery of Fine Paintings. On the gallery floor, the curator Jacques Sauna-Lurker lies dead; a three-foot-long codfish stuffed down his throat, and on the wall are the bloody words:

THE CHATHOLIC CURCH HAD ME MURDERED!
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The Enchantress of Florence

April 30th 2009 06:02

In the city of Fatehpur Sikri, a young European calling himself Mogor dell’Amore charms his way into the palace of Akbar the Great claiming to be the son of a powerful enchantress, the irresistibly beautiful Lady Black Eyes, the hidden princess Qara Koz, youngest daughter of Akbar’s grandfather.

The stranger reveals why all traces of his supposed mother was struck from the royal records and tells how her adventures led her to enchant the city of Florence, even as her unfolding tale captivates the citizens of Sikri

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The Magician: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

April 3rd 2009 00:57

Book 2 of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott

Michael Scott breathes life again into creatures of myth and people in history in the second volume of this fast-paced adventure. He continues to intrigue and impress as he expands the extraordinary world he has created by further revealing the nature of magic and the use of auras, and by introducing more fantastic creatures, immortal humans and formidable Elders while also adding to the fascinating histories of the main characters, and tying their pasts with their present predicaments

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Update on James Patterson Chain Thriller, AirBorne

March 26th 2009 03:39

The first chapters of the chain thriller are now online with the 7th chapter loaded onto the Borders website today.

Regarding the actual writing of AirBorne, over half its 30 chapters have been completed. The first few chapters online are a good read. It’s quite an achievement seeing that each author only had an evening to write their chapter

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Chain-Thriller Winners Announced!

February 19th 2009 11:47

Winners for the James Patterson chain-thriller competition have been announced on Facebook! Hope you see your name and post code among the 28 winners!

Each of the winners will now have the task of writing a 750 word chapter for the online thriller, Airborne. The first chapter, written by James Patterson will be released March 20 on the Borders website
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The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel

February 17th 2009 02:17

Book 1 of The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series by Michael Scott

The Alchemyst, Nicholas Flamel and his wife Perenelle died in 1418. Or so it was supposed to seem. Centuries ago, the Book of Abraham; a book filled with long-forgotten lore came into the Flamels’ possession. It was in this book that they discovered the secret of immortality, and it was for this book that they’d gone into hiding

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He’s Just Not That Into You

February 4th 2009 04:06

You hit it off with a guy at the party on the weekend. He gets your number and says he’d call you the next day. It’s Wednesday and he still hasn’t called.

The guy that you’ve been sleeping with for the last few weeks freaks out when you mention the word “boyfriend

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Write a book with James Patterson!!

February 2nd 2009 23:43

Be one of 28 co-authors of a thriller inspired by James Patterson, Australia’s biggest selling crime author.

James Patterson is writing the first and last chapters of a 30 chapter book entitled “Airborne”, and 28 aspiring writers will be recruited to write the rest. A chapter a day of this world-first online chain story will go live on the Borders website – that’s right, 30 chapters in 30 days

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