It’s been a very long time since I’ve read a young fiction novel. So long, in fact, that when I finished reading Angel Cake by British author Cathy Cassidy, I felt thirteen again. Really. It was like … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Help by Kathryn Stockett
The first thing that happened when I started reading The Help was that a teensy bit of voice escaped from my lips. A vocal gasp. The second thing that happened was an ear-to-ear grin, followed closely … [Read more...]
Children’s Book Review: Ever Clever Eva by Andrew Fusek Peters
Ever Clever Eva by Andrew Fusek Peter is the latest in The White Wolves series of books, published by A&C Black, London, are a brilliant collection of readers featuring three styles of story – … [Read more...]
Book of the Month: Breath by Tim Winton
Tim Winton’s latest novel, Breath, takes its first gasping breath in a fast-moving scene, flush with speed and emotion, and loaded with question marks. Written in the first-person, present-tense – … [Read more...]
Essentially Erica Bauermeister: Master of Edible Fiction
Ah, La Dolce Vita. The sweet life of a successful author. Erica Bauermeister’s first fiction novel, The School of Essential Ingredients, may still be fresh on the shelves but this tantalising novel … [Read more...]
S is for Superhero and B is for Bob McLeod
Popular children's author and comic book illustrator, Bob McLeod, chats with Australian Women Online. Bob McLeod has been doing something super. Something that is the envy of kids and adults … [Read more...]
Alice Munro wins 2009 Man Booker International Prize
Alice Munro (pictured) has won the third Man Booker International Prize. Not to be confused with the annual Man Booker Prize, the Man Booker International Prize is worth £60,000 to the winner and is … [Read more...]
Book Review: The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister
The room filled mostly with couples, leaning toward each other across tables, enclosed in their own spheres of candelit intimacy. Fingers reaching toward fingers, or flying through the air, drawing … [Read more...]
Book Review: Red Dust by Fleur McDonald
Outback novels, in truth, have been few and far between on the bookshelves of my life, let alone one of ‘love, intrigue and redemption’, so I was very keen to start this debut tale by Fleur McDonald, … [Read more...]
Book Review: Because You Are With Me by Anna McPartlin
“What if your boyfriend died right in front of you…” When I first picked up this debut novel by Irish writer and comedian, Anna McPartlin, I scanned the beautiful photograph on the very sentimental … [Read more...]
Book of the Month: Hopetoun Wives by Fran Cusworth
For her second novel, Melbourne based author Fran Cusworth revisited the year she followed her husband to a mining town on the south west coast of Australia. Although a work of fiction, the story of … [Read more...]
Book Extract: The Art of Extreme Self Care
With so many demands on our time and energy, coupled with obligations and family commitments, it’s not always easy to find quality time doing what we would otherwise like to do. If you find yourself … [Read more...]
Starting an Online Business for Dummies: the new guide to setting up and promoting a business online
Completely up-to-date for Australian and New Zealand readers, Starting an Online Business For Dummies provides support and expert advice needed to build an online empire — whether starting out from … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Secret Pleasures of Menopause by Christiane Northrup
At the age of 39, I figured I had about 10 years before I personally needed to read a book on menopause. But as my job also requires that I review books that may be of interest to women, I recently … [Read more...]
To Hellas and Back: My Modern-day Greek Tragedy by Lana Penrose
To Hellas and Back is the true story of one woman's four year Greek Odyssey for love. Lana Penrose subtitled her book, 'My modern-day Greek tragedy', but it soon becomes clear to the reader that … [Read more...]
Lisa Heidke delivers MummyLit at its best with Lucy Springer
Book of the Month: February 2009 The public's appetite for ChicLit may have peaked somewhere around 2004, but the genre that gave us the flawed but much loved heroine of the 1990's, continues to … [Read more...]
How Australia played its part in Darwin’s theory of evolution
On January 12 1836, Charles Darwin stood about the deck of the tiny brig HMS Beagle as it made its way into Sydney Cove. The observations he was to make during his journey around the young Australian … [Read more...]
Comedian Denise Scott reflects on her first gig as an author
Denise Scott (pictured) is a well-loved Melbourne based stand-up comedian, actor and radio and TV personality. She has appeared regularly on TV shows such as Full Frontal, The Today Show and The Big … [Read more...]
The Truth about Money and Wealth with Dr John Demartini
With the recent events on Wall St, the prospect of economic uncertainty is foremost in the minds of many. Dr John F. Demartini, human behavioural specialist, philosopher and best selling author of … [Read more...]
No Time for Dances: A Memoir of My Sister by Gillian Bouras
In 1996, just a week before Christmas and after a life long struggle with mental illness, a woman named Jacqueline killed herself at the age of fifty. Tragically, her body remained undiscovered in … [Read more...]
Author Reveals The 61 Secrets of Fame
Author and US media personality David Seaman details in a new book, Dirty Little Secrets of Buzz, how anyone can become the mainstream media's latest flavour of the month. In Dirty Little Secrets of … [Read more...]
Angus & Robertson launches the first in-store Print on Demand book machine in Australia
Angus & Robertson, Central Book Services and On Demand Books has announced the launch of the first Espresso Book Machine (EBM) in Australia to be installed in a retail environment. The machine is … [Read more...]
Man Drought: Australian Demographer reveals where all the men are
Respected Australian demographer, Bernard Salt, says there is an increasing difference between the supply of men and women in one of the key reproductive age groups in Australia. In 1976 Australia had … [Read more...]
Little Books on Big Themes
Bob Carr will today launch a new series of books entitled Little Books on Big Themes at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney at 5pm. All of the distinguished writers in this first series will be … [Read more...]
International Success for Australian Author Kate Morton
KATE MORTON (pictured) made headlines in 2006 when the advance rights sales to her debut novel, The Shifting Fog, published in the UK as The House at Riverton, hit the million-dollar mark. Last month … [Read more...]
Postcards from the Asylum
In this her fifth collection of poetry, award-winning poet Karen Knight captures with disarming skill, sensitivity and piercing black humour her experiences as an inmate at the Royal Derwent … [Read more...]
New book demystifies the role of women in Islam
A new book which aims to dispel myths and misconceptions associated with the role of women in Islam will be launched today by the Parliamentary Secretary for Multicultural Affairs and Settlement … [Read more...]
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
International best selling author, Jodi Picoult has become renowned for asking the hard questions in relation to contemporary American society. In her latest book, Change of Heart, Picoult tackles the … [Read more...]
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