GALAH
Edited by Annabelle Hickson, Murdoch Books, $66.99
Just over a decade after moving to regional New South Wales, journalist Annabelle Hickson shocked herself by deciding to start a magazine. She wanted to show city slickers there was more to country life than flood, fire and other disasters and move beyond the “stereotypes of simple, complaining farmers or backwards hillbillies”. Since its inauspicious beginnings on a laptop at her kitchen table, has won a national, celebrating Australian landscapes and homes as well as the resourcefulness and creativity of the people who live in them. It even has recipes and we here can vouch for Sue Heward’s roast chicken with figs and honey.
