The Wheels Fall Off This Adventure

By Any Means: From Wicklow To Sydney

Snap Happy

Winning the war to keep digital photosorganised takes some technical know-how, writes Dan Warne.

French Romp In The Farce Lane

Ooh La La! A French Romp

Final Call

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The Bible Takes An Eastern Influence

THE words of the Bhagavadgita, the songs of a Hindu mystic and the teachings of Mahatma Gandhi have all found a place in a controversial Bible published in India.

The Pages

Murray Bail's sly wit and sexually charged ideas give his works their spark. Chris Wallace-Crabbe admires the elegant jokes in Bail's new novel.

Non-fiction

Sex And The City: The Movie Amy Sohn (Headline, $50)

Undercover

SON OF A GUN

Children

Pilgrim Jo Oliver (New Frontier, $24.95)

Walk In The Shadow Of Disaster

Slow Journey South: Walking To Africa, A Year In Footsteps Paula Constant (Bantam, $27.95) The Complete Valley Of The Kings Nicholas Reeves/Richard H. Wilkinson (Thames & Hudson, $45) Me, Myself & Prague: An Unreliable Guide To Bohemia Rachael Weiss (Allen & Unwin, $24.95) At My French Table Jane Webster (Viking, $59.95) The Outbackers: Travelling The Outback With The Uteman Allan M. Nixon (ABC Books, $29.95)

Step By Step, Little By Little

YOU CAN SAVE THE PLANET

Fear And Loving In Africa

Silent Footsteps: A Woman's Awakening Among The Elephants Of Africa

Undercover

HARD WORK REWARDED

Belief Is Good For You. So Where Can You Buy It?

A favourite stocking-stuffer this season was the slim hardcover Where's Bin Laden? It's a Where's Wally? clone in which the teeming masses writhe across provocative, cat-meat icons of Western decadence like the Eiffel Tower and Sydney Harbour Bridge. Maybe you find him, maybe not, even with the free plastic magnifier. But I say forget bin Laden. He's not the one with the birthday. Ask yourself this. Have you seen Jesus lately?

Gun Fires Blasts Of Compassion

Last century was the worst for wars ever. Deborah Cameron finds an artist who cares. Hit by a single shotgun blast, a 175-page hardcover book gets kicked in the air before it falls. With a hole punched in the back cover and its spine weakened, the book sheds tiny slugs of lead from between desiccated pages for months. But die? No. For Geoff Hocking, author of what must be the most unusual book to be published in Australia this year, the shooting of 140 copies of One Million Human Beings made a ...

Chasing Service On The Highway To Hell

WHAT would you buy for 62 bucks if you had the choice? A really seriously good red? New bestseller in hardcover? Family movie pass? It's not an inconsiderable sum.

Pageturner - Egyptian Palaces And Villas

BOOK REVIEW: Egyptian Palaces and Villas, By Shirley Johnston with Sherif Sonbol Published by Abrams, Hardcover; RRP $90

Little Joy, Plenty Of Division

A new biography of a post-punk icon reveals the pathos of a man out of his depth. Torn Apart: The Life of Ian Curtis By Mick Middles and Lindsay Reade Omnibus Press, 376pp, $49.95 (hardcover)

Page Turner - Collapsibles

BOOK REVIEW: Collapsibles, A Design Album of Space-Saving Objects, By Per Mollerup, Published by Thames & Hudson, hardcover, RRP $39.95

Publisher Puts You Between The Covers

CLIENTS of new publisher Book of Life aren't looking to have the next award-winning best-seller - the book's highest accolade will probably be pride of place on the family bookshelf. The company, started by journalist Alan Stokes, formerly of The Australian Financial Review, aims to provide a way for people to have their life recorded in a hardcover, This is Your Life style book, researched and written, for a fee, by a professional writer.