How to keep that Christmas glint in your eye
Things are tough in Eli’s home as Christmas approaches, but there are a couple of ways to get around that – enjoy this extract from Trent Dalton’s bestseller Boy Swallows Universe.
Books
Memory lane: How Australia used to live
See how much Australia has changed, and what life was really like from the 1930s to the 1970s, with a new photographic book titled ‘In Living Memory’.
Christmas’ best books: naughty and nice
HarperCollins’ head of fiction Kimberley Allsop offers up some fantastic Christmas gift book suggestions for every member of the family, especially those hardest to choose for.
Real reason Angie quit Gogglebox
Gogglebox fans were devastated when Angie and Yvie left the show last year, and now the Bachelorette has revealed the reason behind their decision.
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Erotic fiction set for a shake-up
AUSSIE mum Lili St. Germain scored a global hit when she self-published her erotic bikie series Gypsy Brothers online. Now her first print book, Cartel, is set to shake up the erotic romance market.
The real reason Jackson had plastic surgery?
MICHAEL Jackson’s late former manager, Frank DiLeo, is coming out with a bombshell, beyond-the-grave book promising the truth about the King of Pop.
The actress, her husband and an 8-year nightmare
KIM Jong-un isn’t the first of his dynasty to be a movie buff. His father was so obsessed, he kidnapped a film star and her husband to realise his vision. This is their story.
The 2014 word of the year is …
IT is a sign of changing times that the word of the year in 2013 was “selfie”, followed by “twerk”. Throw both of those away, apparently there’s a new word we like more.
Why would Harper Lee publish now?
THE book that has taken the literary world by storm over the past 24 hours lay dormant for sixty years. So why is it being published now and what does the death of Lee’s sister have to do with it?
To Kill a Mockingbird gets sequel
MORE than 50 years after Harper Lee released what is now hailed as one of the greatest books of the twentieth century, a sequel is coming. What took so long?
‘The food turned my stomach’
REBECCA Harrington has tried the diets of the great and the good, from Madonna to Beyonce to Cameron Diaz. And they’re pretty much disgusting.
Author Colleen McCullough dies
INTERNATIONALLY famous Australian author Colleen McCullough, who wrote The Thorn Birds, has died in hospital on Norfolk Island.
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