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Selected as the Great Read in the March issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Prologue August 1986 People didn’t have babies on aeroplanes. They just didn’t. Well – well, actually they did. And then it was all over the newspapers. ‘Gallant aircrew deliver bouncing boy,’ it said, or words to that effect, and then went […]

When Tasmania’s Mary Donaldson fell in love with a prince, the world was captivated by her real-life fairytale. This month, as Crown Princess Mary of Denmark, she returns to visit Australia, and speaks about what it means to her. A wintry drizzle is falling across Copenhagen and, but for the sentries in their greatcoats and […]

To say that Oprah Winfrey’s life is astonishing and inspirational is, for once, not celebrity hyperbole. From a dirt poor, abused child, she’s become one of the century’s most influential women. Born to an unwed young mother, raped and sexually abused as a young girl, losing a baby at 14, told she was too fat, […]

Selected as the Great Read in the February issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. A poignant, funny story, told through a series of letters and emails between Rosie and Alex, best friends since childhood. Through the years the possibility of a romance between the two hangs tantalisingly in the air, but life seems to conspire […]

These recipes and craft ideas come from The Best of Children’s Art & Crafts. You will need: toothpicks vegetable dye apples, oranges and various fruits carrots, potatoes and various vegetables sultanas, marshmallows, soft sweets, chenille sticks, to decorate Place toothpicks in a warm vegtable dye mixture. wood colours more quickly in warm dye. Spread on […]

You will need: 2 x 1 litre (1¾ pint) milk cartons foil coloured cardboard cylinder pen cotton wool chenille sticks adhesive tape scissors Step 1 Seal the open end of a milk carton with tape. Cut a piece of foil to fit around entire carton. Carefully cover milk carton with foil lengthways, so that the […]

Selected as the Great Read in the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. There is a Mute in the Kitchen Devi never cooked. It wasn’t like she was a terrible cook; she’d just never done it before. Saroj had tried to teach her children to cook without having them actually cook in her kitchen, […]

Santa Kid by James Patterson (Headline $29.95) Best selling thriller writer James Patterson turns his hand to writing for...

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig (Bantam $29.95) An American student, Eloise, comes to London to research a couple of historical spies and comes upon the trail of the most elusive agent of all, the Pink Carnation who saved England from Napoleonic invasion. A breezy historical romance, escapist and enjoyable. My […]

Selected as the Great Read in The Australian Women's Weekly - The Tenko Club.