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.
More Stories
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.
What life is really like as an American sniper
AMID the buzz of “American Sniper”, meet Nicholas Irving, who became a master sniper with the US Army during tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. In his new book, he tells what it’s really like to take a life.
Wowsers: Kim flaunts cleavage on book cover
KIM Kardashian has revealed the cover of her upcoming book of selfies, and lets just say she has the girls out on display.
Rendell ‘recovering’ after stroke
BRITISH crime writer Ruth Rendell, known for her series of novels featuring Chief Inspector Wexford, is in a critical but stable condition after suffering a stroke.
CIA ‘killed prisoners at Guantanamo’
A FORMER guard at the detention camp has written a book claiming the CIA murdered three hunger-striking prisoners and made it look like suicide.
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