Liberation (The Best Of Hugh Masekela) - Hugh Masekela

Advantages: An insiders tale of the life of a professional cricketer
Disadvantages: Non sports fans won't find much to interest them

...incredibly talented cricketers from the early nineties who never managed to consistently reproduce their county form at international level and Hughes lays a substantial part of the blame at the door of the national coaches not really understanding the motivational requirements of these men, and the subsequent loss to both the player and the national team. For Hughes the fear was a game by game dread that he wouldn't be up to the mark and the year on year fear that Middlesex would recruit some fine young tyro to make him surplus to requirements. This fear was at its worst in the year that Wisden (the cricketer's bible) downgraded him from Fast-Medium to Medium-Fast, quite a humiliation for a pace bowler. His family background is in show business and although he was never a flamboyant, bar emptying player he had a taste for the big stage... Read review

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Advantages: Nice Story With Detailed Illustrations.
Disadvantages: None

...About The Author Shirley Hughes published her first book Lucy and Tom's Day in 1960. Since then she has illustrated over two hundred children's books and is known as a champion of children's literature. Shirley Hughes has been awarded the Kate Greenaway medal, the prestigious Eleanor Farjeon Award and in 1999 she was honoured with an OBE for her distinguished services to Children's literature. The Story Alfie is very excited, he has been invited to his best friends birthday party and he has never been to a party before. Mum tells him all about parties how you take a present, games he would play and all about the delicious party food. Alfie was a little nervous about the party especially when he realised Mum and Annie Rose (his baby Sister) would not be there. He decided to take his blanket and held... Read review

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Advantages: It might convince you to produce more of your own food.
Disadvantages: You might like spending money at the supermarket.

...suggests to me that it's primarily about cooking and recipes. It isn't. It's about the quality of the food that we eat and moving away from rubbish to good, locally produced food, some of it home-grown. It's not, though, a book about self-sufficiency as Hugh admits that he's not self-sufficient and has no intention of trying to be. There is what he describes as "the food acquisition continuum" which ranges from the people who are self-sufficient, through those who grow some of their own food to those who buy everything from the supermarket. He's unworried about where you are on this continuum as his aim is to encourage thought about where food comes from. Once you've tasted the freshness and quality of food that you've grown yourself you realise that the produce in the supermarket is very poor in comparison. Each section of the book... Read review

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