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You already know about the powerful disease-fighting antioxidants found in green, black and white tea. Now a study from Germany, published in Nutrition and Metabolism, has revealed that, compared with other types of tea, white tea helps prevent new fat cells from forming, and also breaks down the fat content in those already present. Lead […]

Hands up if you would like a holiday? Wouldn’t we all! For those of you taking time out this year to jet overseas, drive up the coast or go to the local holiday park with the kids, there are a few must-haves that you shouldn’t leave home without. Leaving on a jet plane If you’re […]

There are many benefits to exercising in the cold. You use more energy in winter, which equates to burning more kilojoules. And as you’re burning more energy, you sleep better at night. Regular exercise is also one of the best ways to boost your immune system and fend off wintertime colds and other illnesses. But […]

Detective Anna Travis’ worst nightmare comes true when a sadistic killer she helped put behind bars claims he can help her with a murder investigation. A redhead, clad in snappy suits and starched collars, Lynda La Plante’s Detective Inspector Anna Travis has crime investigation in her blood. Her late father was a detective chief superintendent […]

HITCH 22 BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, ALLEN & UNWIN, $35. A memoir from the thinking woman’s crumpled crumpet, the dishevelled but always wildly articulate Christopher Hitchens. The younger son of a British naval officer and an effervescent beauty, he overhears them plotting his future: “If there is going to be an upper class in this country, […]

ROOM BY EMMA DONOGHUE, PICADOR, $32.99. The author has plucked a nightmare straight out of the nightly news – the abduction of a young girl and her incarceration in a locked room – and turned it into a novel as intriguing as it is chilling. The story is told by the captive’s five-year-old son, Jack, […]

INHERITANCE BY NICHOLAS SHAKESPEARE, HARVILL SECKER, $32.95. Andy Larkham, a 30-something pen-pusher about to be dumped by his fiancée, is rushing to attend the funeral of his favourite schoolteacher. He’s one of just two mourners. A stranger takes down their names after the service, though it turns out it’s the wrong man’s funeral. Within a […]

SEX & STRAVINSKY BY BARBARA TRAPIDO, BLOOMSBURY, $32.99. This is Barbara Trapido’s seventh novel and a glorious read it is, with a cast of fabulously flawed characters, whose lives cross and re-cross over decades and continents as they chase their dreams, pick the wrong partners, madden their children, suffer the tyranny of monstrous parents, yet […]

A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNSBY KHALED HOSSEINI, BLOOMSBURY, $24.95. Afghan-American novelist Hosseini follows up his best-sellingThe Kite Runnerwith another searing epic of Afghanistan in turmoil. Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, loss and fate. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman’s love for her family can move her […]

THE SEARCHBY NORA ROBERTS, PIATKUS, $32.99. Since her first book,Irish Thoroughbred, was published by Silhouette in 1981, sassy mother-of-two Nora Roberts has notched up more than 200 novels and is an international best-seller. The Search, book number 206 (she averages five a year), is meticulously crafted in Roberts’ effortless signature style, weaving romance and serial-killer […]