The Weekly Review

This Christmas, there are plenty of loud and articulate voices beckoning from our bookshop’s shelves.

These books tick many info and pleasure boxes and, as such, make terrific Christmas and birthday gifts for the traveller in your life.

It’s no surprise that acclaimed chefs such as McConnell put effort into every dish they serve. But what I find so interesting about today’s bunch of amateur foodies is how energetically they also, prepare even the simplest ingredient.

Three years ago Melbourne writer and cartoonist Kaz Cooke started compiling a list of questions she wanted to ask the world’s women. Cooke had decided to produce an adult version of her 2007 bestseller Girl Stuff – a book of facts and advice that continues to resonate with teenage girls and their parents.

Can a screen version enhance a book? Corrie Perkin thinks so.