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One in 100 Australians suffer from coeliac disease, an auto-immune disorder caused by gluten in food. Dietician Karen Inge reports on the popularity of gluten-free diets and who actually needs to be on them. It’s amazing how the popularity and availability of gluten-free foods has increased in recent years. No longer do you have to […]

Pippa Middleton’s famed rear-end has been one of the hottest Royal Wedding talking points since her bridesmaid role last month at the Royal Wedding. The Pippa Middleton Ass Appreciation Society on Facebook has attracted more than 220,000 members. Now the secret to her toned shape has been revealed: weekly Pilates sessions. The brunette attends classes […]

Maria Shriver has revealed her heartache over the news that her estranged husband Arnold Schwarzenegger fathered a child 10 years ago with a member of staff who worked with their family. A week after the pair announced their separation, the former governor of California revealed the 10-year secret, the UK’s Daily Mail reported. Maria found […]

Caribou Island by David Vann, Penguin, $24.95. When Vann ‘s first work of fiction, Legend Of A Suicide, was published in 2009, it shot across the literary world like a comet, blazing a tail of prizes and critical acclaim that took pretty much everyone — including the author — by surprise. This novel proves it […]

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, Atlantic, $32.99. A fascinating book about the way computers and the internet are changing the way we read and absorb information. The basic premise is this: after centuries of linear, literary thinking, book-type thinking, our minds are being rewired into a new kind of mind that operates in short, disjointed, […]

Batavia by Peter FitzSimons, Random House, $49.95. I would rather sail around Antarctica on the Titanic twice than cruise the coast of West Australia on the Batavia. Not only did 74 per cent of women survive the sinking of the Titanic, none of them or their husbands and children were murdered, or compelled to kill, […]

The Shelly Beach Writers’ Group by June Loves, Viking, $29.95. It’s not that her unpleasant husband dumped her that bothers 50-something Gina Laurel, it’s the fact he beat her to it and she hadn’t quite come up with plan b. That’s how former corporate high-flier Gina finds herself house- and dog-sitting at Shelly Beach, with […]

Kill Me Once by Jon Osborne, Century, $32.95. Nathan Stiedowe knows serial killers better than anyone else, except perhaps for FBI Special Agent Dana Whitestone. That’s because Nathan is a serial killer. He’s also a perfectionist, and it’s an unfortunate combination for his victims as he goes about recreating some of the most sickening murders […]

Lasting Damage by Sophie Hannah, Hodder & Stoughton, $32.99. It could be that Connie Bowskill is simply losing her mind. Late one night, while taking a virtual tour on a property website, she sees a woman lying in a pool of blood. Or does she? Seconds later, the gruesome scene is gone. Husband Kit is […]

A Widow’s Story: A Memoirby Joyce Carol Oates, Fourth Estate, $35. Joyce Carol Oates is one of America’s most prolific novelists, best known forBlonde, an extraordinary fictional biography which offers a window into the soul of Marilyn Monroe. InA Widow’s Storywe catch a glimpse of Oates’ soul seen in sharp, detailed, jarring focus through her […]