Books

Download your exclusive extract from Pearl In A Cage by Joy Dettman here. About the author: “What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen,” observed prominent American short story writer and novelist Cynthia Ozick. Glimpses of the landscape of Joy Dettman’s early years reveal how her permanent […]

Download your exclusive first chapter from Bad Behaviour by Liz Byrski here. About the author: Even today, Liz Byrski can hardly believe it. There she was in London in 1968, a very exciting place to be in a year of monumental change and upheaval, and what was she doing? “I was pregnant with my first […]

Download your exclusive first chapter from Don’t Tell Eve by Airlie Lawson here. About the author: The desite to write can strike at any age. In the case of Airlie Lawson, who spent the first decade of her life on a farm in South Australia, where she had a horse called Punch, the urge expressed […]

An exclusive extract from the Great Read in the May issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly: What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (Pan McMillan) Was that talkback radio she could hear? She hated talkback radio. The callers were so cranky and nasal. They were always appalled by something. Alice said that she’d never been appalled […]

**By Lucy Chesterton At 35, Sarah Wilson’s big break as a major TV personality has come later than most. Here the MasterChef host explains why age is no barrier.** What made you stand out from the crowd in the MasterChef presenter audition? I was pretty much myself in the audition. In fact that’s what I […]

An exclusive extract from the Great Read in the April issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly: The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Fig Tree) Constantine came to work in our house at six in the morning and at harvest time, she came at five. That way she could fix Daddy his biscuits and gravy before he […]

Exclusive extract from The Australian Women’s Weekly Great Read, March issue Still Alice (Simon and Schuster) by Lisa Genova. “John?” Alice waited, suspended in the front hallway, holding the handle of her suitcase. Harvard Magazine lay on the top of a pile of unclaimed mail strewn on the floor in front of her. The clock […]

Exclusive extract from The Hunter’s Wife by Katherine Scholes, the Great Read in the February issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Mara peered intently ahead as she steered the Old Land Rover over the trackless terrain, avoiding the honey-badger holes and termite hills. The two Manyala Land Rovers had set off a little earlier and […]

Extract from January’s Great Read:The Other Side of Starsby Clemency Burton-Hill. He had gone to the gala performance of Phedre at the Theatre du Chalet as part of a British Embassy delegation; he couldn’t even remember now what the occasion had been. A fuss had been made before the curtain went up, though, because due […]

Exclusive extract from How To Break Your Own Heart by Maggie Alderson, the Great Read in the November issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. ‘Do you always sleep in separate beds? Kiki’s question took me so much by surprise that I’d answered her truthfully before I had time to think about it. I hadn’t had […]