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HAND ME DOWN WORLD BY LLOYD JONES, TEXT PUBLISHING, $32.95. This is the story of a woman who is on an extraordinarily difficult, lonely journey. At first, her tale is told by the people she meets. There’s the randy truck driver, the kind group of hunters who smuggle her across the border and the woman […]

THEODORA: ACTRESS. EMPRESS. WHORE BY STELLA DUFFY, VIRAGO, $29.99. When her father dies, Theodora survives by performing for men on the stage of Constantinople’s Hippodrome and in bed. Yet she will rise from the backstage brothels of the Byzantine Empire to become one of the most powerful women in the world. Stella Duffy digs up […]

ON RADJI BEACH BY IAN W. SHAW, MACMILLAN AUSTRALIA, $34.99. Social historian Ian Shaw plunges into the jungle of one of Australia’s most heroic acts of women’s wartime service. When two units of city and country nurses boarded the Queen Mary in 1941 to tend soldiers serving in Malaya, duties included treating insect bites and […]

ITALIAN FOOD SAFARI BY MAEVE O’MEARA WITH GUY GROSSI, HARDIE GRANT, $55. The long-awaited next feast in SBS’s beautiful Food Safari series is a celebration of the Italian Australians who have kept their food traditions intact over generations. Travel again with Maeve O’Meara and legendary chef Guy Grossi as they spend time with Australia’s top […]

In 30 words or less, tell us what is great about a book you are reading at the moment. The best critique will be printed in the February issue of The Weekly and the writer will win The AWW Cooking School cookbook, valued at $74.95. THE DISTANT HOURS By Kate Morton, Allen & Unwin, $39.99. […]

As her romance with Prince William developed, Kate Middleton reportedly received intense royal training to help her cope with the pressures of one day becoming a part of the royal family. Kate, who will marry her prince on April 29, 2011, at Westminster Abbey, was treated like no other prospective princess within the royal family, […]

Putting the hype of the royal engagement aside, Prince William is also getting attention for his role in the rescue of a hiker who was suffering chest pains on a mountainside in northern Wales on November 18. In his role as a Royal Air Force Sea King helicopter pilot, Prince William was called out to […]

Their big day will stop the world and breathe new life into the royal family. It’s the happy news we’ve waited so long to hear. William, undeniably the world’s most popular prince, is finally set to marry his beautiful princess-in-waiting, Kate Middleton. Their engagement has ignited a fresh tidal wave of royal fever. This is […]

Loving every moment of her pregnancy, Miranda Kerr is living a dream life … if only she weren’t costing her Nan “a fortune”. Miranda Kerr is simply glowing. The supermodel’s blue eyes shine with happiness, those famous dimples lighting up her face as she takes stock of her life. Renowned for having her feet well […]

Things on the home front are better than ever for the cricket great. Shane Warne’s relationship with his sometime-wife Simone Callahan has raised eyebrows for years, but after plenty of public mistakes the cricket champion now insists he is a reformed family man. The couple have reached an understanding about their complex but enduring two-decade […]