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THE RADLEYS, BY MATT HAIG, TEXT PUBLISHING, $32.95. This is a new and intriguing addition to the ever-expanding vampire oeuvre, which is still selling its blood-soaked socks off. The hook this time is that the Radleys – a seemingly average family living in an English village – are abstaining vampires: the parents, Peter and Helen, […]

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER BY SETH GRAHAME-SMITH, ALLEN AND UNWIN, $24.99. The master of the literary mash-up is back. It was Seth Grahame-Smith who launched the conga line of Celebs-meet-Monster books with his chart-topping Pride and Prejudice And Zombies, in which the undead wreak havoc on Jane Austen’s muslin, mannered world. This time it’s Honest […]

AT HOME, BY BILL BRYSON, RANDOM HOUSE, $55. Best-seller Bill Bryson has an exceedingly lively mind. Having tackled space, time and the mysteries of the universe in his award-winning A Short History Of Nearly Everything, he was casting around for something more domestic – a book he could write in carpet slippers in his own […]

29, BY ADENA HALPERN, SIMON & SCHUSTER, $29.99. Seventy-five year old Ellie Jerome, a wealthy widow living in Philadelphia, isn’t overjoyed about getting older and has more in common with her 25-year-old grand-daughter, Lucy, than she does with her 55-year-old daughter. Has she wasted her life marrying young and playing safe? She makes a birthday […]

SIZZLING SIXTEEN, BY JANET EVANOVICH, HACHETTE, $32.99. Everyone’s favourite larger-than-life bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, is back in her 16th adventure. This time, her job at Vincent Plum Bail Bonds is on the line, her friend Lula is caught up in a shabby investment scheme and Stephanie still can’t decide between her two love interests – […]

The PassageBY JUSTIN CRONIN, ORION, $35. This, the first book in a trilogy from Harvard graduate, university English professor and novelist Justin Cronin, has already netted a $4.4million book deal and $2.07 million in film rights, with the movie due to be made by Robin Hood director Ridley Scott. This is a weighty (766 pages) […]

In a candid interview with Chrissy Iley, the singer reveals how she is still waiting for the all-clear from breast cancer, why she stopped using Botox and how, at 42, she is in love – again. Talking to Kylie Minogue, I can’t help but feel that I know her. Not just from the many interviews […]

As Julie Goodwin plays mother to this year’s MasterChef hopefuls, she tells Larry Writer that, after winning last year, she’s finally living her dream – despite those marriage rumours. When Julie Goodwin meets Marion Grasby at an inner-Sydney studio for The Weekly’s photo shoot, last year’s MasterChef winner gives this year’s girl-most-likely one of her […]

On their historic first royal tour together, princes William and Harry prove they have come of age in the image of their beloved mother, carrying on her caring legacy. Suellen Dainty reports. It’s been dubbed the “budget special” or the “buy-one, get-one-free” offer. Officially, though, this is known as the first royal overseas tour by […]

Today, Pixie Skase lives in a modest two-bedroom flat in Melbourne. It’s a far cry from the lavish lifestyle she enjoyed with late husband Christopher. Pixie opens her heart to Sue Smethurst, in her first major interview in almost 10 years Even during the excesses of the 1980s, the extravagance of Christopher and Pixie Skase […]