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If you are someone who prepares for guests by sweeping bills, laundry and newspapers behind sofa cushions, take heart! It's possible to be an imperfect host, but happily so. The essential ingredient is not, paradoxically, the food, nor the perfect house to host in, but the sentiment you convey when you open the door.
Do your eyes say: 'I like you and I enjoy your company,' or does a weepy cloud of visceral horror descend as pine nuts burn gently in the kitchen? Special Guest is a gentle guide to turning easy basic fare into something of a celebration. For when you want to say to your friends with their spouses and ten small children, 'Why don't
you stay for lunch?' without hating yourself afterwards. Learn the lesson of 'one splendid thing done well' without regard to the hundred other things, and call the day a success. Pick up some pointers for the modern conundrum that is cooking for people with seemingly incompatible dietary requirements. Hosting your friends
is not about showing off; it is about delighting others. Your dining table might be decorated with a pile of unmatched socks and kids' homework, but that's no reason not to invite friends in for a chat, a sit-down and something delicious to eat.
Annabel Crabb is one of Australia's best-loved TV and media personalities and a joyfully imperfect host. Wendy Sharpe is Annabel's oldest friend, a recipe consultant on Kitchen Cabinet and co-conspirator in mad-capped cookery projects.
In Stop at Nothing, Annabel Crabb brings all her wit and
perceptiveness to the story of Malcolm Turnbull. This is a
memorable look at the Prime Minister in action - his flaws and
achievements - as well as his past lives and adventures. Drawing on
extensive interviews with Turnbull, Crabb delves into his
university exploits - which include co-authoring a musical with Bob
Ellis - and his remarkable relationship with Kerry Packer, the man
for whom he was first a prized attack dog and then a mortal enemy.
She examines the extent to which Turnbull - colourful, aggressive,
humorous and ruthless - has changed. Crabb tells how he first lost,
and then won back, the Liberal leadership, and explores the
challenges that now face him as the forward-looking leader of a
conservative Coalition.
What does Malcolm Turnbull stand for? In Stop at Nothing Annabel
Crabb tells the story of the man who would be prime minister. Based
on extensive interviews with Turnbull as well as those who have
worked with him, this is an essay full of revelations. Crabb delves
into young Malcolm's university exploits - which included
co-authoring a musical with Bob Ellis - and his remarkable
relationship with Kerry Packer, the man for whom he was at first a
prized attack dog, and then a mortal enemy. She asks whether
Turnbull - colourful, aggressive, humorous and ruthless - has what
it takes to re-invigorate the Australian Liberal Party in the wake
of John Howard. She discusses his vexed relationship with Kevin
Rudd, and the looming presence of Peter Costello. This is a
scintillating portrait by one of the country's most incisive
reporters. 'How would Australia be different if he were prime
minister? What are his most closely held policy convictions? I
asked dozens of Malcolm Turnbull's political colleagues this
question, asking them to name three. Many of them had to pause
before responding. 'You'll have to excuse me. I'm eating some
chocolate,' was the best initial response, from a Liberal on the
other end of a phone line.' ANNABEL CRABB, STOP AT NOTHING Annabel
Crabb is the Sydney Morning Herald's political sketchwriter and
appears regularly on ABC TV's Insiders. She is the author of Losing
It- The Inside Story of the Labor Party in Opposition (2005).
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