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GROWING GRAPES MIGHT BE FUN
Deidre Macken, Allen& Unwin, $32.99
eidre Macken is an accomplished journalist, columnist and author. Her husband, Roger Johnstone, has also enjoyed a long career as a newspaper and magazine editor and publishing executive. So what on earth persuaded them to move away from the city “inland of the last espresso machine” to establish a vineyard at Murrumbateman in Canberra’s cool-climate wine region? Looming retirement, the quest for a challenge, perhaps, mixed with a good measure of blind optimism. Deidre has written a highly entertaining memoir of their transition from