Bookstore owner’s wild rant at ‘woke agenda’
A bookstore owner who complained that there were not enough books with “just white kids on the cover” has been forced to apologise.
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Shark terror: I was a sitting duck
‘I heard the sickening thud as it hit me’. Record-breaker Bonnie Hancock recounts a near-death experience – one of many – during her epic solo voyage around Australia on a surf ski.
‘Never sleep the same way again’
Can you commit a crime in your sleep? It seems so. Why Matthew Blake is out to make us think of our nightly habit the way Jaws made us reconsider swimming.
Scott Morrison’s big new move
The former prime minister is set to release a book early this year, with contributions from a high profile US politician.
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Harry Potter star defends J.K. Rowling
An actor who played a beloved Harry Potter character has thrown his support behind J.K. Rowling, saying he doesn’t find her trans views offensive.
Furious fans declare J.K. Rowling ‘dead’
Harry Potter author JK Rowling is at the centre of another social media pile-on, with a grim hashtag circulating after her latest move.
Kim Jong-un ‘hit on’ senior Trump staffer
Kim Jong-un was supposed to be focusing on his meeting with Donald Trump. Instead, he was more interested in one of the women in the room.
Melania ‘folded like a deck of cards’
A former friend of Melania Trump has confirmed she recorded her in secret and explained the thinking behind her most controversial outfit.
TV star Bluey takes publishing world by storm
Books are regularly turned into movies and often gain popularity that way. But Bluey the blue heeler and her posse started off as a kids’ TV show — and now the franchise has clocked up more than a million sales in less than a year.
How WW2 changed everything for Aussie women
Seventy-five years ago when World War II ended, a new struggle was beginning for Australian women — and its effects are still being felt today.
The truth about The Devil Wears Prada
In his memoir The Chiffon Trenches, the first black man to hold the editor-at-large title at Vogue details a dizzying rise to fashion’s front row before being dumped by Anna Wintour and what The Devil Wears Prada got wrong. EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT
Melania on tape slamming her husband
A former friend of Melania Trump who has fallen out with the First Lady recorded her making “disparaging remarks” about Trump family members.
Agatha Christie’s great detective makes a comeback
One of literature’s greatest characters, crime writing superstar Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, is enjoying a second coming thanks to an unusual quirk of fate.
Game of Thrones book six is finally on its way
COVID-19 has forced author George R.R. Martin to churn out more pages in his long-awaited Game Of Thrones book six, pushing forward the release date. But that’s two years too late after the TV series went its own way, Duncan Lay writes.
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