Plastic Budgie Category_BODY Cesar Vitale was born in

Cesar Vitale was born in Santos

Pistachio and cardamom biscuits and many more of the most-loved dishes from all corners of the nation

hoping to escape their complicated home lives for the summer break

I love all the twists and turns and the guessing along the way

The author explains how many of us are playing the 'confidence game' using the wrong rules

Plastic Budgie Category_BODY Cesar Vitale was born inOlivia De Zilva's Plastic Budgie is a brutally funny and inventive debut about family and self, full of itchy Y2K nostalgia, curses and glimpses of birds. There was no use googling am I cursed because the search engine algorithm would always say yes. Olivia was named after a lycra clad singer her parents saw on Rage. As a child, she lost the ability to speak and spent a year barking like a dog. Her Gong Gong bought her a yellow bird in a shoebox from