[EvieB]

I posted a book recommendation on the News forum last week - about a brilliant book by David Hampshire called Culture Wise Australia. Not ficition but very useful and fascinating info about everyday life in Australia. The chapter on Culture Shock and the effects of moving to a new country on migrants is alone worth the cover price of £9.99 and should be compulsory reading for anyone thinking of emigrating. David Hampshire has written two other excellent books 'Living and Working Australia' and 'Buying a Home in Australia'. For anyone interested in the history of Australia around the time of the new settlers/convicts you can't beat The Fatal Shore by Robert Hughes. For fiction, Kate Grenville, Tim Winton and Bryce Courtenay are superb Aussie authors. Bryce Courtenay wrote a great trilogy about some people deported to Australia for petty crimes and how their lives changed and worked out when they got there. I'm an obsessive reader - can you tell?