Revisiting GoT’s Daenerys Targaryen
As the world waits to find out what happens to Game of Thrones’ key characters in Season 8 we look at how they first appeared in the book that started it all. First up, Daenerys Targaryen.
Books
Cartoonist swaps River City for Windy City
He spent three decades as a Brisbane resident, but renowned comic artist Eddie Campbell now calls Chicago home.
‘How to’ murder writer charged with murder
A ROMANCE novelist who wrote an online essay entitled How to Murder Your Husband has been arrested for allegedly murdering her husband.
How most wanted men snapped
GINO and Mark Stocco were hunted for eight years as they committed heinous crimes around Australia. Now, a new book has revealed why they started.
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The mums who moonlight as erotica authors
THINK of an erotic fiction author and you’ll likely imagine a leather-clad dominatrix jetting around the world in search of sexual adventures. But she’s just as likely to be a soccer mum, like these ladies.
Meet history’s most dysfunctional family
ONE was in love with Hitler, one was a communist organiser, one was a supporter of British fascism, one was a writer and daring lover. The Mitfords could be modern history’s most remarkable family.
From mum to Baghdad bodyguard
EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT: Australian Neryl Joyce went from being a single mum to a Baghdad bodyguard. But her journey exposed her to more than threats of ambush and assassination.
Clinton: How to handle Abbott’s sexism
AUSTRALIAN women have often been at a loss when it comes to handling the Prime Minister’s less tasteful comments. But Hillary Clinton has a pretty good suggestion.
Columbine shooter’s mum to pen book
THE mother of Columbine High School shooter Dylan Klebold is planning a memoir describing the “indescribable grief and shame” she lives with.
Exclusive book extract: The Rosie Effect
The Rosie Project, a romantic comedy about a university professor with Asperger’s looking for love, was last year’s literary hit. Read an exclusive chapter from Melbourne author Graeme Simsion’s sequel The Rosie Effect, out September 24.
Stupidly young stars who wrote autobiographies
DESPITE the fact they’re barely out of diapers, some stars decided that the world needed to hear their words of wisdom about life, love and puberty. Here are five of the worst offenders.
Pistorius book is wrong, just wrong
COMMENT. UNBELIEVABLE. Days after being convicted of culpable homicide, Oscar Pistorius is set cash in with a book. Does the man have no scruples at all?
Celebrating 25 years of The Simpsons
A NEW book by The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening traces the history of everyone’s favourite four-fingered family from Springfield.
‘Straight’ woman spends year as lesbian for book
MEET Brooke Hemphill, the ‘straight’ Sydneysider who kissed a girl and liked it so much she spent the next year living as a lesbian.
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