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Your latest book, Spiking The Girl, partly involves an iconic sports star caught up in a big scandal - I assume you wrote it well before the news about the AFL and rugby allegations hit the headlines?

Nineteen year old Queenslander and marketing student, Sarah Risley, who works at Cleveland Newsagency in Brisbane, was given a challenge – how to promote the books selected as the Great Read by The Australian Women’s Weekly? Sarah Risley set up a fantastic display just inside the front door of Cleveland Newsagency, where customers can check […]

It’s hard for Nicole Kidman to avoid the subject of marriage – after all, she’s one of Hollywood’s most famous divorcées. In the July 2004 issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly, Nicole tells Jenny Cooney Carrillo why she loved being a wife, about her ongoing relationship with Tom Cruise, and why she took the role […]

Selected as the Great Read in the July issue of The Australian Women's Weekly.

Dame Stella Rimington, former head of British Intelligence, MI5 is the author of At Risk (Random House Australia), a stunning debut thriller and The Australian Women's Weekly July Great Read.

It was billed as “the wedding of the century”, the glittering union of a Hollywood movie queen at the peak of her powers to the handsome ruler of a glamorous European principality. No wonder that MGM, the film studio to which Grace Kelly was bound, demanded that, in return for releasing the actress from her […]

The Queen’s only daughter was known mainly for her show-jumping exploits and feisty behaviour when she announced her engagement to fellow show-jumper and army officer Captain Mark Phillips. Despite her plea for a quiet affair, Anne’s wedding took place at Westminster Abbey and the entire ceremony, apart from the exchanging of rings, was beamed live […]

The world had never seen anything like it. It was the most talked about, filmed and photographed royal wedding in history, with 700 million TV viewers worldwide and a further million people lining the streets of London just for a glimpse of the bride, 20-year-old Lady Diana Spencer, and her Prince Charming, Prince Charles, heir […]

On a blisteringly hot day, the nation waited patiently for Sarah Ferguson and her father, Major Ronald Ferguson, to appear in an open carriage on the road to Westminster Abbey. The auburn-haired bride looked stunning in a ivory satin dress with a 5m train. Inside the abbey, Nancy Reagan, dressed in peppermint green, rubbed shoulders […]

What better setting for the Queen’s favourite son to marry in than the grounds of her favourite home, Windsor Castle. Prince Edward, fifth in line to the throne, married Sophie, daughter of a car tyre salesman, after a three-year courtship, and the couple became the Count and Countess of Wessex. The wedding was an evening […]