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The December 13 edition

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Books for summer

Forty books for 10 types of reader – here’s what to read this summer

Our pick of standout summer reads matched to every mood, habit and beach-bag alter ego.

  • Melanie Kembrey
Australian Jigsaw Puzzle Association members Louise Jackett (left) and Heidi Schwegler.

Fifty minutes to make a 1000-piece jigsaw fit? For these stars, that puzzle is no problem

Record numbers are competing in competitive jigsaw puzzling locally and heading to Spain for this year’s world championships.

  • Cassandra Morgan
Summer in Sydney.

The summer that changed everything

In this Herald series, we asked prominent artists, comedians, authors and journalists to write about their “summer that changed everything”.

A Mini Cooper in the foreground, and in the background a Ford Cortina Mk I (a car the author once owned in real life).

I love my toy racing cars, but I think they’re ruining my dating life

Is it a thing of beauty or a ridiculous relic? Karl Quinn just can’t decide, but he knows that slot-car racing set is just too damn big.

  • Karl Quinn
Jessie Tu tried skateboarding for a while, but valued her wrists more.

Skateboarding made me realise: I’m a writer – I need my wrists

I wanted to learn something new, something hard, and be gracious at sucking at it. And everyday I got on that skateboard, I fell. I fell several times each hour. I broke my wrist twice.

  • Jessie Tu
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The barefoot bride: Jenna Price and her husband, John.

As I walked down the aisle, what was that sinking feeling?

There was rain on her wedding day but the sun eventually came out for a tiptoe through the beachside park.

  • Jenna Price
Smoke from nearby bushfires billows across Moruya in January 2019.  

Amid bushfire’s smoke, there was kindness everywhere you looked

As the fires raged, we huddled in an evacuation centre with 100 other people: it was Armageddon-like.

  • Samantha Selinger-Morris
Victoria Devine had preecalmpsia during the last trimester of her pregnancy and was trolled on social media.

Taylor Swift helped me through one of the toughest times of my life

My pregnancy was not an easy one, but there were some days of magic – including three glorious hours singing at the top of my lungs with some of my closest girlfriends (and 96,000 others) to Taylor Swift.

  • Victoria Devine
FitzSimons setting off on his adventure.

Shelter from the storm of Africa

At the southern Italian port of Brindisi, I bought a map of Africa and set off on the trip of my life, which felt like a long-running Bob Dylan song.

  • Peter FitzSimons

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