Entertainment

October is all about food! It is Nude Food month, National Nutrition Week is 15th - 21st, it is World Food Day on the 16th, and World Vegetarian Day on the 1st. Celebrate with this documentary about 'individuals [who] ignite a movement to fight hunger'. 'Worlds apart, a five-star chef, a twelve year-old girl, and a retired schoolteacher discover how their individual efforts to feed the poor ignite a movement in the fight against hunger'.

Take food back to basics with this doco. 'Speed - the obsession of the modern world - is determining what people should eat and how. Traditional foods are at risk of disappearing forever. An international eco-gastronomic movement known as Slow Food champions the protection of traditional culture, the environment and biodiversity while encouraging regional production, food education and pleasure. For these passionate and dedicated food lovers, sustainability, community and lifestyle are as important as seasonality, quality and taste'.

The 17th - 23rd October is the Children's Book Council of Australia's Book Week! Let's celebrate all things books! Enjoy this film, an adaptation of James Joyce's Ulysses. 'Bloom is the enthralling story of June 16th, 1904 and a gateway into the consciousness of its three main characters: Stephen Dedalus, Molly Bloom and the extraordinary Leopold Bloom'.

An iconic adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel of the same name, 'Lolita tells a disturbing tale of tortured and forbidden love. Humber Humbert, a professor of French literature, travels to a small New England Town to take a teaching position, searching for lodging he visits the home of a single mother Charlotte and her 14 year old daughter Dolores (Lolita). Upon seeing Dolores, Humbert is immediately smitten. Knowing his desire is forbidden, he marries the clueless Charlotte in order to stay close to her daughter'.

World Homelessness Day falls on the 10th October. Learn about the challenges faced by people suffering from homelessness with this documentary. A Road to Home 'follows 6 LGBT youth through New York City as they learn to survive in the streets, then struggle to find beds, jobs, and some sense of purpose and direction for their lives. Four have grown up in poverty, two not. Five are people of color, one not. All have been rejected. Their lives typify the experience of the 500,000 homeless youth on American streets every night'.

Continue your exploration of homelessness with this film. 'Hannah and Tahir fall in love while homeless on the streets of New York. Shelter explores how they got there, and as we learn about their pasts we realize they need each other to build a future'.

The 11th October is International Day of the Girl Child. 'For centuries, Buddhist monasteries have served as spiritual and educational centers for the people of Tibet, particularly in rural areas. But for the most part, monastic life is available only to men... But in Nangchen, in remote Northeastern Tibet, Kala Rongo Monastery is granting women choices they've never had before... Nearly 300 nuns are now receiving religious and educational training previously unavailable to them, and playing an unprecedented role in preserving their rich cultural heritage even as they slowly reshape it. Daughters of Wisdom is an intimate portrait of these nuns'.

Continue your celebration of daughters with this film. 'Set in the last days of a dying logging town, Christian returns to his family home for his father Henry's wedding. Reconnecting with his childhood friend Oliver and Oliver's family, wife Charlotte and daughter Hedvig, he unearths a long-buried secret. As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before'.

Celebrate all things food with this audiobook. 'Seventeen-year-old Alba is an aspiring comic-book artist, pastry enthusiast and eternal optimist. She thinks life in her tiny town is awesome (if predictable) and she never wants it to change. Unfortunately Alba’s just finished Year 12 – so the only thing she can predict is that everything’s going to change. Even so, Alba didn’t see the end of the world coming. Apart from a questionable television psychic, no one did. And for some reason, the world seems to be taking this guy seriously. As the tiny town is besieged by doomsday enthusiasts, Alba’s life is thrown into chaos'.

'Eating is a multisensory experience, yet chefs and scientists have only recently begun to deconstruct food's components, setting the stage for science-based cooking. In this global collaboration of essays, chefs and scientists advance culinary knowledge by testing hypotheses rooted in the physical and chemical properties of food. Using traditional and cutting-edge tools, ingredients, and techniques, these pioneers create, and sometimes revamp, dishes that respond to specific desires and serve up an original encounter with gastronomic practice... The Kitchen as Laboratory cover a range of creations and their history and culture'.

Celebrate Book Week with this brilliant book! 'The yield in English is the reaping, the things that man can take from the land. In the language of the Wiradjuri yield is the things you give to, the movement, the space between things: baayanha. Knowing that he will soon die, Albert 'Poppy' Gondiwindi takes pen to paper. His life has been spent on the banks of the Murrumby River... on Massacre Plains. Albert is determined to pass on the language of his people and everything that was ever remembered. He finds the words on the wind. August Gondiwindi has been living on the other side of the world for ten years when she learns of her grandfather's death'.

Let the Book Week celebrations continue with Normal People. 'Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in rural Ireland. The similarities end there; they are from very different worlds. When they both earn places at Trinity College in Dublin, a connection that has grown between them lasts long into the following years. This is an exquisite love story about how a person can change another person's life - a simple yet profound realisation that unfolds beautifully over the course of the novel'.

Consider types of homelessness with this story. 'Nuri is a beekeeper; his wife, Afra, an artist. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo - until the unthinkable happens. When all they care for is destroyed by war, they are forced to escape... they embark on a periluos journey towards an uncertain future in Britain... Nuri is sustained by the knowledge that waiting for them is his beekeeper cousin Mustafa, who is teaching fellow refugees in Yorkshire to keep bees. Nuri and Afra set off through a broken world, on a dangerous journey in which they will confront the pain of their unfathomable loss, and... find a way back to each other'.

'The first book to explore the complexities of homelessness in Australia... What is homelessness? Who counts as homeless? Whose responsibility is homelessness? In Homelessness in Australia experts in the sector offer timely insights into the history, causes and extent of homelessness in this country – and the future policy directions most likely to have a positive impact. Covering issues such as gender, Indigenous homelessness, family violence, young people and the effects of trauma, the book aims to improve both the understanding of the complexities involved and the outcomes for those experiencing homelessness'.

Celebrate daughters with this novel, also available as an audiobook. 'Naomi and Sally Durance are daughters of a dairy farmer from the Macleay Valley. Bound together in complicity by what they consider a crime, when the Great War begins in 1914 they hope to submerge their guilt by leaving for Europe to nurse the tides of young wounded. They head for the Dardanelles on the hospital ship Archimedes. Their education in medicine, valour and human degradation continues on the Greek island of Lemnos, then on the Western Front. Here, new outrages - gas, shell-shock - present themselves'.

Continue your celebration of daughters in honour of International Day of the Girl Child on the 11th October with this biography. 'The untold story of Felice della Rovere, the illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, and her rise to wealth and power in Renaissance Rome'.

Celebrate all things food this month with Food Industry magazine.

Continue your celebration of all things food in Italy this time, with Sale e Pepe.

Celebrate Book Week with the New York Review of Books - a magazine for all things art, culture, literature, and current affairs.

Appreciate the power of storytelling with Empire magazine this Book Week.

Queer youth are more likely than their non-queer peers to suffer from homelessness due to a lack of acceptance at home and other factors. Read Gay Times this month to learn about queer culture.

Another group of people who suffer disproportionately from homelessness is older women. This can happen because women's working lives can be interrupted by child-rearing, and they suffer from the wage gap such that, later in life, women can be left without an income to adequately support themselves. Have a read of Simply Knitting and ponder how society could better support women throughout their lives so they can partake in hobbies in retirement instead of wondering where to sleep.

Read about Betty Muffler, an Anangu/Aboriginal Pitjantjatjara woman who is living her culture through spiritual healing and art.

Celebrate daughters and all their potential with The Week Junior.