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Call Me Elizabeth, Wife, Mother, Escort – A True Story by Dawn Annandale (Time Warner $29.95) When Dawn Annandale’s marriage falls apart she is confronted with a pile of debts and a burning desire for her children to stay at their posh schools. Needing to make a lot of money very quickly, she decides to […]

Walking into a cosy Manhattan cafe, Brooke Shields pulls off a huge hooded coat to reveal a dramatic new look. Wearing absolutely no make-up, she nonetheless is striking – particularly because it appears that she has recently been struck. A large bruise, swollen and dark, covers the right side of her face. Yet there is […]

Throw combining crocheted and knitted squares Download the pattern for the individual squares and the complete rug. MEASUREMENTS Throw measures (approx) 170cm x 140cm MATERIALS Cleckheaton Country 8 ply (50g balls) Main Colour (MC) – 27 balls 1st Contrast (C1) – 2 balls 2nd Contrast (C2) – 3 balls 3rd Contrast (C3) – 14 balls […]

She has played a murderous mum, a witch, a mobster’s wife, a French aristocrat and a steamy chanteuse, but perhaps Michelle Pfeiffer’s most enduring and favourite role – aside from being a mother – is as muse and glamorous clotheshorse for fashion icon Giorgio Armani. Theirs is a mutually rewarding relationship: he makes her look […]

The Australian Women’s Weekly is delighted to announce that publishing giant, Penguin Australia, have become our partners in what has become one of the biggest and most popular writing contests in Australia. The 2005 short story competition will be launched in August at the Byron Bay Writers Festival by the Editorial Director of The Australian […]

MEASUREMENTS These garments are designed to be a generous fit. **MATERIALS ** **BOY’S OR GIRL’S SWEATER BACK** Using 4.00mm Needles, cast on 82 (90-98) sts. Knit 5 rows garter st (1st row is wrong side). ** Work in stocking st until work measures 27 (30-32) cm from beg, ending with a purl row. SHAPE RAGLAN […]

Exclusive Extract from The Italian Romance by Joanne Carroll. One thing I know for sure is that whoever she is, this woman who knows my family, I do not want to meet her in full view of a voracious pack of strangers. I get up. I must have lost my balance, for whatever-his-name-is has grabbed […]

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MEASUREMENTS MATERIALS: 7 x 50g balls Panda Regal 4ply; 4.00mm crochet hook or size required to give correct tension; knitter’s needle for finishing ends. TENSION: This poncho has been designed at a tension of 3 patts to 8cm and 6 rows to 10cm over patt, using 4.00mm hook. ABBREVIATIONS: alt = alternate; approx = approximately; […]

The past, for many, is a place viewed with misty-eyed romanticism, a place where memories are happily tinted by warmth, love and respect. For Today show co-host Tracy Grimshaw, 44, the past is all of that, but it is also a place that resonates with pain, sadness and the lingering torment of opportunities lost. Like […]