Description:   This book is a record of the passionate convictions that motivated the ministry of David Watson, exploring what evangelism is and how it can be carried out by both Church and individual.  

Description:   The book is crammed with information on health and cooking, and encourages men to discover the joys of cooking and good eating. About 150 recipes of all sorts. Winner of the Australian Food Writers' Award and first prize at the International Cookbook Fair at Perigueux, France.

Description : The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel published in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, under the pen-name John Wyndham.  This classic sf novel traces the fate of the world after a comet shower blinds most of the world's population. The few with sight must struggle to reconstruct society while fighting mobile, flesh-eating plants called triffids.

I received the first book ' The Search for Fierra ' for my 17th birthday, and have read both these books a great many times since then.  I would say the Empyrion Saga is a personal favourite which I will be reading again real soon.

Description: Revised translation by D.C.H. Rieu Introduction by Peter Jones This book recounts the story of Odysseus' return to Ithaca from the Trojan war and tells how, championed by Athene and hounded by the wrathful sea-god Poseidon, Odysseus encounters the ferocious Cyclops, escapes Scylla and Charybdis and yields temporarily to the lures of Circe and Calypso before he overcomes the trials awaiting him on Ithaca. Only then is he reunited with his faithful wife Penelope, his wanderings at an end.

Starting in the next few weeks I am beginning a new project called 'A Book a Month' .  The first sequence in this series will be entitled 'Origins' .  I will be presenting books which where firsts for me.  Like the first book I read which introduced me to one of my favourite authors or first book I read of a literary genre.  It will be a trip down memory lane for me and I am looking forward this project. Enjoying the blog? Why not... Then head over to my Facebook page  The BistroMath to join the conversation. You can also follow me on Twitter or YouTube. To do so click on the images below.