Books

Every Day in Tuscany – Seasons of an Italian Life, by Frances Mayes, Bantam Australia, $34.95. Part travelogue, part cookbook, part memoir, Every Day in Tuscany is all escapism. It’s 20 years since Frances Mayes first fell in love with everything under the Tuscan sun, and she’s still aglow with adoration. This third Tuscan memoir […]

Lucy Chesterton serves up the inside info on the top 24. Who will take the heat and stay in the kitchen? ADELE Just like Australia’s first MasterChef Julie Goodwin, Adele is a home-grown mum, who’s very close to her sons, Matthew and Michael, and deeply in love with her husband, Vince. Her big heart means […]

The end-of-the-world disaster movie, 2012, has viewers gripping their seats as the ground falls from beneath buildings and the ocean rushes over cities. The Roland Emmerich-directed thriller, available on Blu-ray and DVD, uses groundbreaking special effects to create the end of the world as we know it. But is it possible that the world will […]

Brisbane’s Shadi and Veronica tell Amy Harris about their goal to have children “in abundance”. Their fairytale love story is a fan favourite on My Kitchen Rules. But behind the smiles of Brisbane frontrunners Veronica and Shadi Abraham, there is a tinge of heartache over the one aspect of their lives they are yet to […]

On the surface All That Shimmers is a heartfelt recount of journal entries kept by a women in an abusive and unfaithful relationship. But deep down author Jade Jaeger feels it is so much more. Jade says her tell-all autobiography was a therapeutic experience, in which she writes about her relationship with Sydney millionaire and […]

As one of the hottest shows on TV starts to heat up, Woman’s Day chatted to Will one of the first two contestants to leave the So You Think You Can Dance top 20. After the ashow he raced off to McDonald’s because he needed some junk food. Are you happy with how far you […]

As one of the hottest shows on TV starts to heat up, Woman’s Day chatted to Ilona one of the first two contestants to leave the So You Think You Can Dance top 20. After the show, she went home and made bacon and eggs and relaxed with her husband. Are you happy with how […]

The wonder of a love affair with a happy Frenchman — and the city of Paris — unfolds charmingly in Elizabeth Bard’s intoxicating new novel. Download an exclusive extract from Lunch in Paris here. When Elizabeth Bard celebrated Thanksgiving recently in her adopted home, Paris, she listed her many blessings. “I have a healthy and […]

Download your exclusive extract from Complicit by Nicci French here. A story of friendship, desire and murder that moves backwards and forewords in time, drawing you in deeper and deeper. It’s a long, hot summer and carefree Bonnie falls madly in love with a gorgeous but dangerous man, only to plunge into a sticky web […]

By Jackie Brygel She may have been the first of the top 12 to be eliminated from Australian Idol, but talented 18-year-old singer Ashleigh Toole promises we certainly haven’t seen the last of her. How are you feeling? You must be more than a little disappointed. Yes, I definitely am very upset, but these things […]