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) […]

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 […]

Exclusive interview with LIANE MORIARTY, author of the Great Read, THREE WISHES (Pan Macmillan Australia), in the October issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. **Q You have an unusual first name? A** Mum read it in a book somewhere, I think it’s German. **Q You have described yourself as an annoying little girl and said […]

The 2003 Byron Bay Writers Festival was another fabulous success with a record crowd of 20,000 plus, converging on the wildly beautiful North Coast town. Bar the arctic freeze which gripped opening night festivities, visitors lapped up a mid-winter dose of Byron’s blazing blue skies and warm sun. A few people went for a swim. […]

The Romantic, by Barbara Gowdy Flamingo, $27.95. A sad but beautiful story by an intoxicating writer. The heroine is lonely 10-year-old Louise, who fantasises about having another family after the loss of her mother. Louise falls in love with her neighbour, an exotic Mrs Richter, then finds herself drawn to her brilliant son, Abel. But […]

Our September Great Read, Love beings With An A is a warm, funny and sassy story about what a woman will do for love. In this remarkably assured debut novel by Melbourne writer, Jeana Vithoulkas, twenty-something lawyer, Fiore, is looking for a man. But not just any man. He must be a good dancer, politically […]

We give you a range of gorgeous handmade gifts to make for baby – from a cute knitted hat with pompom trim to a wrist rattle (designed to amuse a little one on the go) and a fabulous playmat. Materials 4ply baby yarn (25g balls): 1 ball each lemon (MC), mint (C1) and lilac (C2) […]

We present a range of gorgeous handmade gifts to make for baby -from a cute knitted hat with pompom trim to a wrist rattle (designed to amuse a little one the go) and a fabulous playmat. Click here for pattern Materials Scraps of pink and purple felt Water soluble pen Stranded embroidery thread in pink, […]