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Shot, by Gail Bell (Picador,$28) When the author is 17, she is shot in the back. The crime is never solved and Gail, although changed forever by the trauma and suffering of on-going side effects, carries on with her life. This book is her exploration of the event – the police investigation, the experience, her […]

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Honey has never tasted so sweet.

If you’re in a relationship, it can be sobering to take an inventory of how you treat them. How much time did you spend together this week? How much (if any) was “quality time”? What did you talk about – chit-chat, family business, or something more significant? Give your partner the same consideration you would […]

Q & A with Di Morrissey, author of Barra Creek (Pan Macmillan Australia), the Great Read in the November issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. **Q. You have said that each book comes as a strange gift and that you wait for whatever fateful circumstances bring each novel to you – what were they in […]

These elegant placemats are the ideal addition to any dinner table. Create them for yourself or give them as a house-warming or Christmas gift. Materials Craftwood placemats (available from major craft outlets) Jo Sonja’s Basecoat – Primrose Black and White photocopies of floral designs from botanical prints or wrapping papers (or choose your own theme) […]

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To celebrate our 70th birthday, we asked a few members of the team at The Australian Women’s Weekly to nominate their favourite five books of all time. Here they are: Deborah Thomas, Editor Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer Wild Swans, by Jung Chang The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold The Wilder Shores of Love, […]

The prolific, talented Jackie French has won Book of the Year for her gorgeous children’s book, Diary of a Wombat, published by HarperCollins. Jackie, who is the gardening writer for The Australian Women’s Weekly, won against some impressive titles, including Recollection of a Bleeding Heart, Across The Nightingale Floor, Holy Cow and Almost French. The […]

We hope you enjoy this exclusive extract is from Three Wishes (Pan MacMillan Australia), by Liane Moriarty, our October Great Read. It was a Wednesday night six weeks before Christmas. A nothing sort of night. An unassuming midweek night that should have vanished from their memories by Friday. ‘What did we do Wednesday?’ ‘I don’t […]