Beloved celebrity scientist Dr Karl shared his extraordinary life story in recent memoirA Periodic Tale. In this extract, he tells how a trip home for Christmas almost ended in disaster – and offers a timely warning for those partying too hard this season.
David Batty knows Outback Australia better than most – and has had his share of hairy moments. In Batty’s Bush Bible, he tells why fashion photographers, musicians and the Top End don’t mix.
Midnight Oil’s Jim Moginie not only tells the story of the iconic Aussie band in The Silver River – he recalls discovering that he had been adopted and the long search for his birth family.
Bob Hawke was one of Australia’s most legendary prime ministers – but as David Day recounts in Young Hawke, wild living almost ended his political career before it began.
The wheelchair sport champion and advocate hopes his latest venture will celebrate and normalise disability among young children.
The wheelchair sport champion and advocate hopes his latest venture will celebrate and normalise disability among young children.
Can crime fiction, created to entertain, help us make sense of real-life horrors like domestic violence? Furious at the injustice around her, Sherryl Clark hopes so.
“Bad stuff happens to them so it doesn’t have to happen to you”. From The White Lotus to The Beach, there’s a reason we love tales of trouble in paradise.
Bricks-and-mortar bookshops focused purely on romance and erotica books are bucking the trend and thriving in the unlikeliest spots. Meet the women behind them.
Montana Fyre started writing ‘spicy’ storylines for fun but as romance novels boom around the world, her fan base ballooned – and now she’s even quit her day job.
Plot twists are a key part of our favourite shows and stories – but do they always work? One of Australia’s favourite writers has a message for a reader who missed the memo.
A highly personal quest into her own past prompted Lisa Medved to weave a powerful plot about absent parents and secrets into her critically-acclaimed historical novel.
David and Victoria Beckham’s marriage allegedly deteriorated into a “business relationship” and the pair played dirty, according to an explosive new book.
Critics are calling Natalie Sue’s new workplace comedy a “delight” comparable to TV classic The Office. But it started as a coping mechanism in an all-too-common situation.
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