Books

MasterChef‘s latest evictee Jake just missed out on making the top 12! He chats to us about his dream to open a beach seafood stand and his plans to travel. What is the easiest part about being on a show like this? I guess it was good not having to worry about the outside world. […]

He cooks a mean Indian dish, but MasterChef hopeful Jimmy Seervai may soon have to adjust his spicy recipes to accommodate tiny tastebuds, after proudly announcing that he and his fiancée are expecting their first child. The 31-year-old food ingredients researcher from Sydney is so excited he can’t stop talking about it. “It’s the best […]

Woman’s Day chats to MasterChef‘s king of curry, Jimmy Seervai, who reveals all about his time in the house and his next culinary journey. What is the easiest part about being on a show like this? The easiest thing was probably the people that were there. We were all in the same mindset and even […]

Read our review of Nicky Pellegrino’s Recipe For Lifethen tell us what you think on the form below for a chance to win a copy of the AWW Cooking School cook book and have your critique printed in The Australian Women’s Weekly books pages. Mediterranean turquoise cover, splashed with a couple of ripe lemons and […]

This Party’s Got To Stopby Rupert Thomson, Granta, $29.99. This is British novelist Rupert Thomson’s first foray into non-fiction, an absorbing memoir that explores the impact of his father’s death on Rupert and his two younger brothers. They’re in their 20s, already motherless, and having come together for the funeral, the brothers stay on for […]

The Last American Manby Elizabeth Gilbert, Bloomsbury, $24.99. She inspired millions of women withEat Pray LoveandCommitted. How fascinating that Elizabeth Gilbert should have tackled men first, or rather manhood, through the story of a modern-day frontiersman called Eustace Conway, who could throw a knife with pinpoint accuracy at seven, and by 17 was living alone […]

Mayaby Alastair Campbell, Hutchinson, $32.95. Everything’s going right for Steve Watkins. He’s got a good job, lovely wife, even a touch of tinsel in his life because his best friend is the glamorous Maya, one of the world’s most famous film stars. No one quite understands what she sees in him, but Steve is always […]

What’s Happening To Our Boys?by Maggie Hamilton, Penguin, $29.95. Let’s say it up front – I feel for today’s teenagers. Tricky enough that they have to find a path through the challenges particular to this stage of human evolution and Maggie Hamilton’s book canvasses them all – drugs and alcohol, peer pressure, porn, manipulation by […]

Book Of Lost ThreadsBY TESS EVANS, ALLEN & UNWIN, $27.99. Taunted at school because she has two mums, choral prodigy Miranda Ophelia Sinclair – “Moss” – is the first lost soul in this study of needy hearts forming unlikely friendships in lonely places. Finn is tormented by his involvement in a fatal car crash and […]

Oprah: A Biography BY KITTY KELLEY, ALLEN & UNWIN, $35. By the age of 19, the illegitimate girl, born to a teen single mum in the segregated Southern state of Mississippi in the ’50s, had already conquered mountains as Nashville’s first black woman TV news reporter. She was raised for her first six years by […]