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Dora Pembroke
About the Author
Dora Pembroke is a Sydney-based author and home cook. Through her writing, she enjoys exploring domesticity, reinvention, and the promises women inherit. She wrote and developed the recipes for Oh, For the Love of Scones, and is currently working on her first fictional novel.


Oh, for the Love of Scones!
A narrative cookbook exploring domestic life, food, and relationships.
Title: Oh, for the Love of Scones!
Author: Dora Pembroke
Format: Hardback
Length: 140 pages
ISBN: 978-0-6455312-0-6
Category: Narrative cookbook / literary food writing
Audience: Adults
Earlier editions published under Alida Whiteoak
Features:
- Full-colour photography throughout
- Cookable, well-tested recipes
- Short-form storytelling woven through each chapter
- Dry humour and gentle parody
Book Trailer
Book Reviews
“A fun take on love and marriage that feels both familiar and quietly subversive. The recipes are genuinely good, but it’s the ending that lingers.” Clare M. – reader
“A clever blend of storytelling and cooking that uses humour and metaphor. I will never look at my dinner plate quite the same.”
James P. – food writer
“Witty, honest, and unexpectedly good food. This isn’t a cookbook you skim, it’s one you read, laugh at, and recognise yourself in more than once.”
Helen R. – bookshop customer
“Funny in places, uncomfortable in others, and very relatable. A beautifully made book that captures being a mother and wife.”
Margaret L. – reader
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About the Tattered Press
Tattered Press is the independent publishing imprint of Tattered Apron. The press produces small-run books with an emphasis on cooking, readability, and considered production.
Titles are printed on FSC-certified paper. Oh, For the Love of Scones is the first release, with future nonfiction and adult fiction titles in development.

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