Joh era: Another briefcase full of cash
THIS excerpt from a new book reveals how Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen was out to defeat the Liberals at the 1980 state election.
Books
The weirdest book covers ever published
FROM How to avoid huge ships to Mummy drinks because you’re bad, these are some of the most shocking, albeit hilarious book covers you’ll ever see.
What drove Mick Taylor to kill?
BOOK EXTRACT: GO inside the mind of Wolf Creek 2 madman Mick Taylor in a blood-soaked prequel that explores his dark motives.
TV star opens up about childhood tragedy
JOE Hildebrand says he found it “difficult” to write about the disappearance of his nine-year-old brother who mysteriously vanished in 1987, sparking the largest manhunt in Victorian history.
Cult hit writer Boyd Oxlade dead
AUSTRALIAN Boyd Oxlade – the grave digger turned acclaimed writer for his cult hit Death in Brunswick – has lost his fight against cancer.
Brisbane in the swinging 60s
WHAT was Brisbane like in the Swinging Sixties? A suitcase of old photos has been turned into a book which gives us a stroll down memory lane.
X Files star makes paranormal return
FORMER X Files star Gillian Anderson is set to return to the genre that made her a pop-culture icon back in the 1990s.
‘Hillary has spreadsheet of betrayers’
HILLARY Clinton doesn’t just have a list of enemies and supporters – she has a spreadsheet.
Movie star wanted cocaine to help the CIA
IN A tell-all book a former CIA lawyer has revealed Hollywood stars often help the spy agency gather information, but not always for free. Some have wild demands.
Phone booths get new life as libraries
TWO booklovers have breathed new life into telephone booths made obsolete in the mobile phone age, converting them into mini libraries.
US opens first bookless public library
THE public library of the future looks a lot like an Apple store, with rows of iMacs, iPads and other tablets ready for checkout to anyone with a card.
Great novels ‘change brain’s biology’
WITH A great book we feel like we enter another world and no wonder: Scientists say novels change our brains to let us experience what we’re reading.
Ron Burgundy clears up hair myths
DOES he wear a toupee and does the carpet match the curtains? Ron Burgundy responds to the many myths about his famous hair in Let Me Off At The Top: My Life & Classy Other Musings.
New Salinger stories leaked online
THREE unpublished stories by J.D. Salinger have appeared online.
30 books you have to read before 30
GOT a quiet moment this weekend? You’ll need it. These are the books we believe you should read before you’re 30. Any later and their impact won’t be the same.
Rollicking time worth the wait
IT’S difficult to imagine a journalist taking 25 years to write a book . . . but that’s how long it took Nick Place to produce ‘Roll With It’.
What Bridget Jones did next
BRIDGET Jones is all grown up and married. But that doesn’t mean she’s changed all her ways.
Book stores are back in vogue
Good news for your favourite book store, it might just weather the online book boom after all.
How mental health was dealt with in the 19th century
COSTUMES, plots, firearms, escapes, pursuits, confrontations, kidnapping – it sounds like a movie, but it was reality for those who were thought to be mentally ill.
J.K Rowling: ‘Potter to potty-mouth’
THE first reviews for J.K Rowling’s new book, The Casual Vacancy are in. The Verdict? This. Is. Not. A. Children’s. Book.
The unbearable lightness of being poor Barnaby
WHEN Barnaby Brocket was born in Sydney, it was immediately clear he was an unusual child.
10 books for father’s day
DADS are being asked to man up and read a book this Father’s Day in a bid to improve children’s literacy skills.
Book Review: The Charm Bracelet
LIGHT and fluffy, cute and girly, The Charm Bracelet will delight author Melissa Hills loyal stable of fans.
Book Review: The Story Of Billy Young
IT’S a miracle that Billy Young is still with us. The 86-year-old World War II veteran lives in Sydney, expressing his wartime experiences through paintings and poetry.
Book review: The Marmalade Files
THE book’s blurb says it’s a romp through the “dark underbelly of politics” and for once the blurb doesn’t lie.
Book review: QF32
IT could have been one of the world’s worst air disasters: a Qantas A380 had left Singapore on its way to Sydney when a mid-air explosion shattered one of the aircraft’s engines.
1912
SUBTITLED The Year the World Discovered Antarctica, this is the story of the beginning of our knowledge of that vast frozen continent.
Hour Of The Wolf
SWEDISH crime fiction remains favoured reading matter across the globe.
Albert of Adelaide
ALBERT is a lonely platypus and, armed with an empty drink bottle, he is on a quest to find a better world.
Criminal
NOW this is a thriller that deserves some attention.
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