Now to Love

Madeleineby Kate McCann, Bantam Press, $35. She loved Harry Potter,Dr Whoand her favourite toy Cuddle Cat, and when four-year-old Madeleine McCann was abducted on Thursday, May 3, 2007, in Portugal, the whole world knew who she was. Ever since that day, her British doctor parents Kate and Gerry have fought to find her and clear […]

The Chicken Chronicles: A Memoir by Alice Walker, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, $35. Hatched as a blog and raised by her agent into a book, Alice Walker’s (of Pulitzer Prize-winning The Color Purple fame) The Chicken Chronicles, is both a practical day-in-the-yard guide to caring for her “girls” — bullied Gertrude Stein, rebellious Hortensia and sensuous […]

Never A Dull Moment by Sarah Baker, Murdoch Books, $39.99. Do you remember the time when TVs, iPads, Facebook, Gameboys and all that jazz weren’t the only way to while away an evening? In fact, back in those days, families and friends would come together to play games and have fun. Take a journey back […]

The Colour Of Tea by Hannah Tunnicliffe, Pan Macmillan, $32.99. Grace’s life is unravelling. She feels lost in eclectic, buzzing Macau, where her husband Pete is managing the opening of a casino. Devastated that her dream to have children is cut short, her marriage becomes strained and their sadness remains unsaid, causing them to drift […]

Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, Random House Australia, $24.95. My husband recommended this to me after he had read it when we were away travelling two years ago. It shattered me! The central character makes a massive error in judgement and is literally disgraced and cast out of his place of work, and goes away to […]

To Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal, Little, Brown, $29.99. Judith Whitman believes in the sort of love that “picks you up in Akron, Ohio, and sets you down in Rio de Janeiro”. Yet after finding just that kind of love as a teenager, she ended up marrying someone else instead. Now in her 40s, […]

You were glued to the royal wedding coverage and couldn’t switch off the William and Kate Lifetime telemovie (even when ‘William’ started singing karaoke) — now you can relive the royal love story in another cheesy made-for-TV movie. Hallmark’s William & Kate: A Royal Love Story will air in the US later this month and […]

Liz Hurley has detailed the “secret evil regime” she used to whip Shane Warne into shape. Shane has undergone a dramatic makeover since he started getting serious with Liz earlier this year. In pictures: The changing face of Shane Warne He has lost a substantial amount of weight, unveiled a new wrinkle-free face and has […]

Victoria Beckham has tweeted another intimate photo of her husband David cuddling their new daughter Harper. “I took this beautiful picture and wanted to share it with you, baby Harper cuddling Daddy!” Victoria wrote on her Twitter feed. Related: Beckhams introduce baby Harper to the world Harper is David and Victoria’s fourth child and only […]

Royal portrait shoots are usually a very stuffy affair, complete with stiff poses, starched collars and perfectly-coiffed hair. But the Danish royal family dispensed with formality last week, posing for a series on casual photographs in the grounds of their summer estate Grasten Castle. Related: Meet Princess Mary’s twins Crown Princess Mary, her husband Crown […]