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Seminyak’s Aussie-owned Mrs Sippy pool club – which has a sister venue in Sydney’s Double Bay – also has an Australia Day party where 50 per cent of ticket sales will go to bush fire relief charities and buckets will go around on the day. … [Read more...] about Bali businesses throw weight behind charities supporting Aussie bushfire victims

As a child, Nancy Campbell had a snow globe; in it was a diorama of a pine forest, a cottage and a figurine of an old lady picking up sticks. Campbell would shake it and watch spellbound as the plastic flakes fell through the viscous liquid. “My father was often away during those years,” she writes. “Once, having returned from a particularly long trip, he told me a bedtime story in countless instalments about how my toys were lost and trying to find their way back home.” As the tale evolved, the toys became lost in a winter forest; it seemed to her that her snow globe would offer the ideal refuge. The Library of Ice explores cultural perspectives on ice and snow, and traces Campbell’s ice-obsession to that memory of adventure, return and comfort. … [Read more...] about The Library of Ice by Nancy Campbell review – an Arctic obsession

In her slim first novel, again not a word is wasted; the canvas is as wide as her brush is fine. It opens abruptly, as though lights are coming up on a dark stage: “How far must you go?” “That depends.” “On where they are?” “Yes.” Gradually we orient ourselves; we are in Pennsylvania, 1815, where settler Cy Bellman is jolted out of grief for his dead wife by a curious notion: that the animals whose gigantic bones have recently been dug out of a Kentucky swamp might still be wandering about in “the unexplored territories of the west”. Despite the ridicule of his no-nonsense sister Julie, he equips himself with trinkets to trade with the natives and a new stovepipe hat to intimidate them and sets off on a one-man, thousand-mile expedition, promising to be back in a year or possibly two. “I have to go. I have to go and see. That’s all I can tell you.” … [Read more...] about West by Carys Davies review – stunning debut novel from a short-story writer

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Grey squirrels don't hibernate over winter but are known to eat their entire body weight's worth of food in a week during autumn to store fat to brave the oncoming cold. … [Read more...] about Is this Britain’s fattest squirrel? Chunky rodent is caught chomping away as he tucks into a nut for dinner