ISTARSKA KUHINJA - Istrian Cuisine
Foreword by Milan Rakovac 1982, translated by Margaret Walker Food! – what and when to eat it and how to prepare it, and in Istria that...
Margaret
Walker
Author of historical fiction
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- Nov 1
BOSNIA, POWER AND MOB MENTALITY
Some years ago, I was chatting at work with an Arab woman from Egypt when the topic of democracy came up. ‘Arabs can’t do democracy,’ she...
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- Oct 16
BOSNIA AND THE LUST FOR POWER
My father was Irish, English and German. My mother had Italian, Venetian, Slovenian and Croatian/Montenegrin grandparents. After World...
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- Sep 26
THE DARK SIDE OF THE FORCE - using dreams and visions in my novels.
Should the paranormal pay you an unexpected visit – and it will always be unexpected – try to see it as an opportunity. Frightening...
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- Sep 7
HOW TO TRANSLATE A POEM
Know your grammar. What is grammar? Grammar explains how a sentence is constructed. I started Latin when I was twelve. There was a lot of...
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- Aug 25
A PREHISTORIC CONTROVERSY IN YUGOSLAVIA – and you thought the paparazzi had no conscience.
Why had I never heard of the Vinča culture centred in Serbia and its developing writing system that predated Cuneiform by 2000 years?...
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- Aug 2
THE OTHER AUSCHWITZ
The concentration camps of World War 2 hold a macabre grip over the modern imagination. Books on the topic sell in their millions....
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- Jul 19
How I Met My Birth Mother, Part 2.
When I was born in Sydney in 1960, my grandfather, like many Australians his age, called Yugoslavs Balts. Even though Yugoslavia was...
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- Jul 2
AUNTIE DULCIE AND THE MIKATOVIĆ MYSTERY
My husband’s Auntie Dulcie was a dedicated family historian. No one joined dots like she did. Whenever we visited her, she would proudly...
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- Jun 11
ISTRIAN COOKING IN THE 1920’s – from my birth mother’s memoirs.
Istria may have been prized by Venice, France, Italy, Austria and Yugoslavia, but it was not a wealthy region. Marcus Tanner, in his...
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- Jun 6
How I Met My Birth Mother
My birth mother Silvana from Istria died in 2020 aged ninety-nine years, nine months and three-quarters. She outlived all her...
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- May 19
Can You Write a Novel If You Have Big Feet?
How many women do you know who commence an historical novel based on their shoe size? Or their head circumference? Or their height? When...
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- May 16
HIJACKING THE TIME MACHINE
'Truth and memory [are] exceedingly fragile,’ writes Deborah Lipstadt in Denying the Holocaust, the Growing Assault on Truth and Memory....
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- May 16
MURDER FROM THE PULPIT?
The BALKAN ESSAYS of Hubert Butler The Irish Pages Press, 2016 I bought Hubert Butler’s Balkan Essays specifically to read The Artuković...
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- May 14
NOT THE YUGOSLAVS I REMEMBER
Hats off to Slovenian author Goran Vojnović! I have just finished reading his best-selling novel Yugoslavia, My Fatherland which he...
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- May 14
CHETNIKS versus PARTISANS
IRREGULAR ADVENTURE by Christie Lawrence BOOK REVIEW This absorbing book must rate as the greatest war story never heard of. It is the...
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- May 14
A TOUR OF YUGOSLAVIA 1985 - Belgrade and Sarajevo.
Friday 10th May Greek trains are dreadful. From experience I can tell you that the Hellas Express was not a patch on the Vienna Express...
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- May 14
Poems of World War 2 - Josip Cazi and the Yugoslav Partisans
THE MEETING by Josip Cazi On rainy evenings we used to walk through the muddy factory town beside the Danube, Jelice, my blue-eyed girl -...
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- May 14
The Yugoslav Partisans and the Poems of Anđelka Martić
At the beginning of the twentieth century, two opposing political movements emerged from the fall of the old empires: the extreme right...
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- May 14
Whatever happened to Slovenian Trieste?
By what convoluted route did an Australian come to write an historical novel about Slovenian Trieste? It’s a long story. Asking my birth...