‘Garbage’: Story behind massive hit
The Aussie star behind global streaming hit Boy Swallows Universe has revealed its surprising unknown origin story, while admitting to “dread” around his next project.
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Frasier star breaks silence on brutal murder
One of TV’s highest paid stars, Frasier’s Kelsey Grammer, has opened up about the traumatising incident in his private life that almost broke him.
Melb awards no-show the latest chapter in baking queens’ hot war
Cookbook authors Brooke Bellamy and Nagi Maehashi were set to face-off at the Melbourne Australian Book Industry Awards on Wednesday night, but one of them failed to rise to the occasion while the other took the spoils.
‘What if my son screws up?’: Mum’s fear led to TV win
Swapping parenting stories set Dervla McTiernan on a journey to a No1 bestseller, a TV deal and a place alongside Aussie stars like Liane Moriarty and Trent Dalton.
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‘Rows of cardboard cartons, in each one a small baby’
How nurse Vivian Bullwinkel survived one of World War II’s most horrific events is a remarkable Australian story. Less well-known is that she headed back into a war zone three decades later, as Grantlee Kieza relates in this extract from Sister Viv.
How Dr Karl’s Christmas trip became a cautionary tale
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.
‘We must get off this place’: Batty’s horror on croc-infested island
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.
All in the family: Midnight Oil rocker’s surprise discovery
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.
How beer-loving Bob almost ended PM bid before it began
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.
‘Dancers and commandos’: How I detoxed Aussie swim team
In this extract from Tested, Australian cricket captain Pat Cummins discovers how America’s Cup champion John Bertrand turned the Aussie Olympic swimming team around.
My Queen ‘lie’ gave me an art attack
The most original biography yet of Queen Elizabeth II, Craig Brown’s A Voyage Around The Queen, contains dozens of little-known anecdotes – including the time an Australian artist found himself at Buckingham Palace.
‘I’ve seen some nasty things’: Life as a prison nurse
A former nurse gives Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh a rare glimpse into prison medicine – surprisingly declaring that “as a nurse, I’ve never felt safer than I was in the prison environment”.
‘Scrawny British body’: Barnesy’s swipe at star
Rock legend Jimmy Barnes has already set the book world alight with his memoirs – now he has branched into a new area. See what you think of this exclusive extract.
‘Everybody Hurts’: Darkest hours of mega 1990s band R.E.M.
R.E.M. – one of the biggest bands of the 1990s – had just kicked off their biggest year before disaster struck. It changed their future.
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