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After more than 25 years in the business, country music legend James Blundell was awarded the Hall of Fame trophy at this year’s CMC Music Awards, which gave him the chance to reflect on a quarter of a century of highs and lows. Backstage at CMC Rocks The Hunter, he spoke to our reporter, Sebastian […]

He’s a heart-throb of the country music world with nine Grammy nominations and celebrity buddies like Taylor Swift and Keith Urban. But superstar Dierks Bentley says his greatest joy comes from his wife of seven years, Cassidy Black, and their two daughters, Evie, 3, and Jordan, 1. While touring Australia with local music legend Lee […]

She’s released six studio albums and won seven Golden Guitar awards, so it’s obvious singer-songwriter Beccy Cole knows what she’s doing when it comes to country music. But when talk turns to her love life, the 39-year-old resident of Copacabana, NSW, concedes she hasn’t quite worked it out just yet. “I’m guilty of crimes of […]

John Meyer Frey was just seventeen years old when he was sentenced to die for the murder of his girlfriend.

Emily spent the past few months cooking up a proposal, and the answer was a resounding yes! They’ve been dating for nearly nine years and own a house together, so it’s hardly surprising friends of My Kitchen Rules star Emily Cheung and her boyfriend Matt Davenport have been wondering when the two might say “I […]

The Light Between Oceans, by M.L. Stedman, Random House, $32.95. There was an international bidding war for this debut novel by Australian author Margot Stedman and while the plotline is solid, it is the mesmerising quality of the writing that has caused the much deserved commotion. Stedman’s descriptions are superb: vivid and accessible without being […]

Now she’s hooked up with the famous chef, Nicky’s promised to wear knickers and remove her implants! My Kitchen Rules judge Pete Evans seems to have used his trademark tough love to tame his new girlfriend, Kiwi bikini babe Nicky Watson, who has admitted to using hard drugs, undergoing multiple boob jobs and having threesomes! […]

Only the great Joan Didion, perhaps, could ask this of us. To return to the well of despair and drink deeply, again, of her pain.

A fantastical tale set in the late 1800s about two old magicians engaged in an eternal duel.

"The book behind the Oscar-winning best foreign film", says the stamp on the cover.