This dad spent ten years living in St Kilda, trying to make it as a full-time author. But just as he was about to give up on writing as a career, something surprising happened that would see him land a six-figure book and film deal with Paramount.
The detective at the heart of Sarah Bailey’s first three books is a source of frustration and admiration for readers, so much so she gets “a lot of angry emails” especially from older women. So what is it about her protagonist that irks people?
The world’s leading horror writer has new scares and thrills in store for his fans around the world – and this time, you won’t believe what he’s come up with.
Margot Robbie’s meteoric rise from Neighbours actor to Hollywood A-lister in just a few years has been expertly calculated.
A CHAPTER of children’s classic Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, which was cut from the final version, has been published for the first time.
SCHAPELLE Corby’s siblings have won a legal verdict and damages against book publisher Allen & Unwin and journalist Eamonn Duff.
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FORMER Prime Minister Bob Hawke used to conduct meetings sunbathing in the nude. Well, that’s according to his public nemesis, Paul Keating.
“I AM afraid of everything.” The Girls star has revealed the true extent of her long struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
AT least NINE books from Labor MPs and staffers involved in the last government have been launched. Are readers really that interested?
YOU loved this book as a kid. You enjoyed the two film adaptations too. So what on EARTH is going on with the terrifying new cover design?
TWO years after becoming the recipient of the most extensive face transplant ever performed, Richard Lee Norris has become the ‘face’ of GQ. See the amazing tranformation.
TOTES amazeballs! The latest edition of the Chambers Dictionary has included 1000 new words set to annoy word lovers around the world.
MARVEL may have written Chris Hemsworth out of a job, revealing the Thor character is changing genders. Here’s what she’ll look like.
THE famous freckle-faced comic book icon Archie is to be killed off, taking a bullet for his openly gay best friend, it has been revealed.
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