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Arnold Schwarzenegger’s mistress and former housekeeper Mildred Baena has broken her silence on her affair with the star, exposing their 13-year-old son on the cover of a magazine. Joseph Baena, already known to the public as Schwarzenegger’s love child, is pictured posing with his mother on the front of UK gossip magazine Hello!. In pictures: […]

Instead of pursuing the post limelight job hunt in reality television judging panels, branded fragrances or taking profiles offshore to the lucrative Japanese advertising market, a trend is emerging for celebrities to find their second calling in more unlikely fallback career options. Peter Andre has enjoyed fame and fortune as singer, songwriter, and reality TV […]

Flowerbeds generally fall into two categories: weed-filled or wonderful. Weeds are always waiting to pounce on flowerbeds. They grow faster than flowers and cope with heat, cold and drought better. So how do you keep your flowerbeds stunning but weed-free? Follow these steps and you’ll have a spectacular garden in no time. 1. Don’t be […]

For the first time in decades, the average age of first time mothers is declining — why do you think women are having children younger? In the past, women have delayed motherhood to focus on a career, travel or simply to develop their relationship without the distraction of little ones — but this is starting […]

The bad news is there are twice as many people suffering from food allergies than there were ten years ago. The good news is that food manufacturers are catering for these numbers and there are many more alternatives on the market for food allergy sufferers to consume. The bad news is that they are not […]

Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson, Text Publishing, $32.95. Every morning, Christine wakes in an unfamiliar bedroom next to a man she doesn’t recognise, with no idea how she got there. Alarmed, ashamed — she can see his wife’s clothes — she goes to the mirror and sees a woman 25 years older […]

Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, HarperCollins, $32.99. Geraldine Brooks has a rare gift for unearthing small, overlooked historical facts which she then shapes and spins into great human stories. She’s done it three times already (with Year of Wonders, March, and People of the Book) and excels with this, her fourth. The nugget this time […]

The Butterfly Cabinet by Bernie McGill, Hachette, $29.99. The first chapter sets up the classic elements of fiction. A fortress-like castle on an isolated Irish headland. A proud, wealthy family shattered by their young daughter’s death. An old retainer who finds the black-bound diary her Mistress wrote in prison and decides, finally, she must tell […]

Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane, Little, Brown, $32.99. Eleven years ago, at the end of Lehane’s Gone, Baby, Gone, hard-bitten private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro faced a terrible moral dilemma: should they “rescue” missing four-year Amanda McCready if it means taking her away from loving and safe carers and returning her to the […]

Damn You, Scarlett O’Hara by Darwin Porter and Roy Moseley, BloodMoon Productions, $39.95. It’s a wonder Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh found time to become two of the greatest actors of the 20th century, it seems they were busier in the bedroom than on the stage or screen, and not necessarily with each other. Olivier […]