MasterChef Australia: The Cookbook Volume 1 is the best-selling book in Australia after its first full week on sale, making it the fastest selling illustrated cookbook opening week ever recorded on … [Read more...]
Book Review: Friendship Family Love & Laughter
If friendship, family, love and laughter aren't consciously placed at the top of your Christmas Wish List, you may well have your head blindly implanted in the stress of the pre-Christmas rush, … [Read more...]
Book Review: Our Choice – A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis by Al Gore
He's back. Al Gore, the man who should have been President (hope that doesn't open a sticky can of worms - we are a democracy, people!) is back and he's pushing a firm finger into our chests, just in … [Read more...]
Book Review: Slow Journeys – The pleasures of travelling by foot
There seems to be something curious happening to the book industry of late. From books on slow cooking to yoga and meditation and tomes on finding calm and balance in our lives, could it be possible … [Read more...]
Book Review: Buon Ricordo – How to Make Your Home a Great Restaurant
It's probably a no brainer that if you're going to make your home into a great restaurant, you'd be heavily influenced by the type of cuisine that epitomises the very core of family-based cooking - … [Read more...]
Book Review: Wonders of a Godless World
Finally, a book that isn't afraid to take ugly and make it beautiful. From the opening pages of Andrew McGahan's latest fictional offering, we are bombarded with the dichotomy - and parallels - … [Read more...]
Book Review: Save It – Easy Ways to Save Money
It's very telling of the type of society we live in that the author of this comprehensive new book had to preface her work with a bunch of caveats under the title 'The Legal Stuff', asserting her … [Read more...]
Book Review: Parlour Games for Modern Families
Many’s the evening in a suburban Australian home when Mum is watching Masterchef in the living room, Dad is whooping it up in front of the soccer in the family room, and the kids are variously … [Read more...]
Book Review: Who Do You Want to Be Today?
I have a secret. I want to be Trinny Woodall. I have a girl crush, yes I do – and it’s Trinny. Love her style, love her voice, love her elegance, frankness, energy and candour. Coupled with the … [Read more...]
The Making of Julia Gillard
Julia Gillard is the first woman in our nation's history to become the Deputy Prime Minister and is tipped by many to go all the way to the top job. Highly intelligent, with a strong work ethic, … [Read more...]
Book Review: Buddhism for Mothers of SchoolChildren by Sarah Napthali
Being a big reader of books on psychology and the inner workings of the human mind and heart, there has been many a book on my adult reading journey that’s brought me an ‘aha!’ moment or two. Few … [Read more...]
Grandmother Turned Children’s Author, Mimi King
When Australian grandmother of eight, Robyn Smith, took on the exotic nom de plume of Mimi King, it wasn’t the only major change in her life. After a lifetime of teaching and reading countless … [Read more...]
In Search of Angels
When her 14 year old niece was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, respected journalist, radio producer and TV researcher, Janise Beaumont (pictured), set off in search of a miracle. What she … [Read more...]
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel Wins 2009 Man Booker Prize
Hilary Mantel (pictured) has been named the winner of the £50,000 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for her novel Wolf Hall, published by Fourth Estate. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel was picked from a … [Read more...]
The Butterfly Effect: A New Positive Approach to Raising Happy, Confident Teen Girls
There is something poignant in the title of The Butterfly Effect – a book that gently prises open the cocoon surrounding teenage girls; those delicate creatures caught half-way between a lengthy and … [Read more...]
Children’s Author Ingrid Jonach
Oh, I love a kids’ chapter book that aims so directly at its audience, you can hear the bulls-eye thud of its literary arrow. Talented young Australian author, Ingrid Jonach (pictured), has created a … [Read more...]
Do You Want Sex With That?
Journalist for The Age newspaper in Melbourne, Claire Halliday was asked to write a book on Australian's attitudes to sex. As well as providing a fascinating look inside Australia's sex industry and … [Read more...]
Lisa Williams – Life Among the Dead
Since 2006 Lisa Williams has been hosting her own cable TV show, Life Among the Dead, which airs in Australia on W. On 14th September the popular medium and clairvoyant spoke to me by telephone from … [Read more...]
Book Review: Wildflower by Mark Seal
The front cover of Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa, shows a supermodel in a 1950s frock, holding a milk bottle and being nuzzled by a baby elephant. At first, I thought … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas
It’s always a little dangerous to read something that’s been lauded by the press and even more dangerous when the author has been pegged as the next big thing in contemporary fiction. It’s dangerous … [Read more...]
Teen Fiction: Third Transmission by Jack Heath
Wow. I started writing this review after my first chapter of Third Transmission, and I was so gobsmacked, all I ended up writing was ‘wow’. Several chapters later and now at the end of this … [Read more...]
The Man Booker Prize 2009 Shortlist Announced
A S Byatt, J M Coetzee, Adam Foulds, Hilary Mantel, Simon Mawer and Sarah Waters are the shortlisted authors for the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The shortlist was announced by Chair of judges … [Read more...]
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages
Having voraciously read all the Harry Potter books, I must admit it didn’t even dawn on me to pick up a copy of the companion novelettes – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through … [Read more...]
Teen Fiction: Surf Sisters by Laurine Croasdale
Reading Surf Sisters sent me back to my teenage life, a time when wet hair, zinc cream and the warm smell of wax was de rigueur in our coastal town. It also sent me back to the sisterhood of teen … [Read more...]
Mummy Travellers Making a Difference
Australians are a band of travellers covering areas vast and wide. Not only do we travel young, we travel in packs. We also travel alone. We travel pre-marriage, post-marriage, pregnant, with babies … [Read more...]
Devour a Story During the Children’s Book Week Safari
Sssh. Don’t make a move. There could be a lion of a book in them there bushes, patiently stalking its prey… and it could be after your kids! This year’s national Book Week theme, proudly presented by … [Read more...]
The Towering World of Jimmy Choo: A Story of Power, Profits and the Pursuit of the Perfect Shoe
What is it about women and shoes? Especially glamour puss shoes with sky-high heels, sexy straps and bling? And, with the continued rise and rise of luxury brands across the globe, price and … [Read more...]
Children’s Book Review: A Taste for Red by Lewis Harris
“…What happens if your sixth-grade science teacher is also your immortal enemy..?” I must admit, I’m a little bit chicken. Part lioness, part monkey, part chicken. I’ve watched legions of fans devour … [Read more...]
Maralinga – the Anangu Story: This Ain’t No Dreamtime
An extraordinary illustrated history for children told from the indigenous perspective and created through a series of workshops, extensive research and community consultation. What do you know about … [Read more...]
The Real Man’s Tool Box: A DIY Health Manual for Men
Released in time for Fathers Day, The Real Man's Tool Box by Tammy Farrell is the most important book your husband, father, brother, son, or male friend, will read all year. In May 2009, the Senate's … [Read more...]
Beatle Meets Destiny – A book for teens and the teenager in all of us
Beatle Meets Destiny is the first young adult novel from former advertising copy writer and author of Two Canadian Clubs and Dry at the Martini Den, Gabrielle Williams (pictured). Set in Melbourne, … [Read more...]
Book Review: La’s Orchestra Saves the World by Alexander McCall Smith
“…The strutting demagogue, with his insane shouting, had fixed his eyes on them, and he was coming…” This line, in chapter eleven of Alexander McCall Smith’s latest novel, terrified me. Why? Who was … [Read more...]
You Sexy Mother
You Sexy Mother is some slammin’, out-there title for a book, and I must admit, it’s what initially drew me to it in the first place. Subtitled ‘A life changing approach to motherhood’, I was … [Read more...]
Book Review: Women & Money by Suze Orman
Known throughout the United States as 'The Money Lady', Suze Orman is the author of nine best selling books on the subject. Named by Time Magazine in 2008 as one of the '100 Most Influentional … [Read more...]
Book Extract: The Eight Qualities of a Wealthy Woman by Suze Orman
This is an extract from the Australian Edition of 'Women & Money' by Suze Orman. A wealthy woman absolutely has money, but she also has happiness, courage, balance, and harmony. A wealthy woman … [Read more...]
Children’s Book Review: Darius Bell and the Glitter Pool by Odo Hirsch
It’s just so glorious to read a magical story that’s not steeped in the stereotypical fairies, wizards, goblins or mysteriously shifting worlds that appear in the blink of an eye or through some … [Read more...]
Children’s Book Review: Cicada Summer by Kate Constable
The dreamlike opening of Cicada Summer was a little painful to read. Having lost my mother far too many years ago, it was a little heartbreaking to realise, within moments of opening this junior … [Read more...]
The Gleefully Exaggerated Gretel Killeen
She's been heavily criticised in the media and vilified by just about every armchair TV critic with access to a mobile phone and a computer. But you won't hear her complaining. In fact you won't … [Read more...]
Book of the Month: Vintage Alice by Jessica Adams
It was interesting reading a chic lit novel written by an Australian living in London. Author Jessica Adams has a clear love for her homeland yet an insatiability for England that’s still apparent, … [Read more...]
The Heart and Craft of Romance Writing
Australia's Queen of Romance, Valerie Parv leads an all star line-up of romance writers who have revealed their secrets of success in the new book, Heart and Craft. So you want to write a romance … [Read more...]
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