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Read | <strong>Magazine</strong> 73<br />
PICCADILLY PICKS<br />
A GUIDED DISCOVERY<br />
OF GARDENING<br />
Julia Atkinson-Dunn<br />
Koa Press, $50<br />
Julia Atkinson-Dunn has written<br />
a fabulous, comprehensive<br />
book about gardens, gardening<br />
and gardeners. Not your usual<br />
gardening book, but one that’s<br />
based on her journey, beginning<br />
six years ago as a novice<br />
gardener, to the present day – all<br />
accompanied by exquisite garden photography.<br />
Her chatty writing style covers the basics of gardening,<br />
from choosing garden tools, sowing seeds, propagation,<br />
selecting plants and finding the best trees to suit individual<br />
gardens to finding a garden style that suits the reader.<br />
She generously shares her triumphs and failures as she<br />
learns from experience and other gardeners.<br />
Living in Christchurch, Julia has visited many well-known<br />
gardens and sought advice from their competent owners.<br />
This sharing of knowledge is a fundamental part of the<br />
gardening world.<br />
– Helen Templeton<br />
BACK TO BANGKA<br />
Georgina Banks<br />
Penguin, $40<br />
The Japanese attacked Singapore<br />
on December 9, 1941.<br />
The author’s great aunt<br />
Dorothy ‘Bud’ Elmes was an<br />
Australian nursing sister, posted<br />
from Penang to Singapore<br />
ahead of the Japanese advance.<br />
At Alexandra Military Hospital,<br />
Japanese soldiers murdered the<br />
patients they found there. Bud and the last 65 Australian<br />
Army nurses were ordered to board the Vyner Brooke.<br />
The Vyner Brooke was sunk by aircraft fire off the coast of<br />
Indonesia. Many of the 225 on board didn’t make it to shore,<br />
but Bud and others made it to a deserted cove on Bangka<br />
Island. Lack of food and medical supplies mean that they had<br />
to contact the Japanese Army forces on the island.<br />
Bud was not among the 24 nurses who returned to<br />
Australia in 1945.<br />
Seventy-five years later, Georgina and fellow descendants<br />
of those on the Vyner Brooke attended a memorial service<br />
on Bangka Island, which left many questions unanswered.<br />
Via research done back in Australia and on her return<br />
to Indonesia, the author has pieced together histories and<br />
written what might be very close to the true story.<br />
– Neville Templeton<br />
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