The Ware Family are huge Come From Away Fans. So when The Day The World Came To Town by Jim Defede turned up at our family holiday last week it was read by three of us during our time away. The Day The World Came To Town records the week in Gander, Newfoundland after the …
Family, food, and life are inextricable entwined together. At least in my life, and in Stanley Tucci’s life as well. Taste is a memoir that intersects across generations and across continents and cuisines. I discovered the book while viewing Tucci’s televisual love letter to Italian cuisine, Searcing For Italy. There are recipes, drinks (hello Negroni), …
Getting into a holiday mindset takes a simple read or two. Rhino by Ryan Harris is a perfect example: very readable and undemanding. This sporting biography features not one, but two co-writers, but Harris’ story is interesting because of the mid-career recreation that he effected going from journeyman to spearhead in the midst of continuing …
Simonetta Carr introduces the forgotten people of Christian history, this time Pierre Durand: Pierre Durand was not simply an isolated martyr in the history of the church. He was one of the main architects in a concerted effort to bring the Huguenot churches to unity, order, and theological orthodoxy. read about Durand here.
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