Travelling to Tomorrow: The modern women who sparked Australia's romance with America by Yves Rees

Travelling to Tomorrow: The modern women who sparked Australia's romance with America by Yves ReesA celebrity decorator with blue hair. A single mother who advised JFK in the Oval Office. A Christian nudist with a passion for almond milk. A century ago, ten Australian women did something remarkable. Throwing convention to the wind, they headed across the Pacific to make their fortune. In doing so, they reoriented Australia towards the United States years before politicians began to lumber down the same path. For the artist Mary Cecil Allen, this

Baker Bleu The Book is a cookbook of sorts

meaning Country in Bundjalung language

Make a recipe a few times and it becomes habit

It lays bare the strange ways of the Ngaanyatjarra region

Yet the bigger feral story is the ravages of acclimatisation

Britain's felons

The false prophet of the Outsider cult escaped justice for his crimes in Clonmel

and confessional memoir to interrogate modern religion and give a raw and personal exploration of spiritual life under patriarchy

Written 'for those who plant trees'

and the greatest temptation he's ever known

reading a book: I love the quiet beauty of Cold Enough for Snow and how

or outwitted scheming vengeful gods