Books

Pop Star: Book 3 — Dork Diaries by Rachel Renée Russell, $14.99. Looking for a book for young readers? Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell, self-confessed dork, must navigate the perils of a posh new school and the CPP (cute, cool and popular) group led by cruel queen-bee Mackenzie. Along the way, she finds friends, gains confidence and […]

For your chance to win lunch with the Queen of Crime, Lynda La Plante go to http://www.lunchwithlynda.com.au Q and A with Lynda La Plante She fainted at her first post-mortem, visited a Russian morgue where bodies were strung up naked, and almost tried her hand at prostitution for a night, all in the name of […]

The newly single contestant spills the beans on her romance and reveals she’s no angel herself!. Together they pulled a pint-sized princess through Prague and downed doughnuts in Amsterdam on The Amazing Race Australia. Now, struggling couple Anastasia Drimousis and Chris Pselletes have called time on their fiery relationship – and she is thrilled! “We […]

Mat Beyer explains how a painful family secret was the real reason for keeping his mobile phone in the MasterChef  house, resulting in his early exit. As contestant Mat Beyer left the MasterChef  house in disgrace, he had no regrets about the smartphone scandal that engulfed him and made him “infamous” – because Mat knew […]

The gorgeous girls from WA, racing around the world together on TV’s hot new show, reveal the truth about the rumoured love triangle. They’re billed as the best of friends on hit show The Amazing Race Australia, however when it comes to dating, Samantha Schoers and Renae Wauhop really should be each other’s worst nightmare. […]

The popular contestant tells how he keeps the sizzle in his 30-year relationship with ‘soul mate’ Sally. Kumar Pereira and his wife Sally seem like the most unlikely of matches. For one thing, the MasterChef Australia contestant was born in Sri Lanka and Sally is from Essex in England, so their backgrounds could hardly be […]

Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson, Text Publishing, $32.95. Every morning, Christine wakes in an unfamiliar bedroom next to a man she doesn’t recognise, with no idea how she got there. Alarmed, ashamed — she can see his wife’s clothes — she goes to the mirror and sees a woman 25 years older […]

Caleb’s Crossing by Geraldine Brooks, HarperCollins, $32.99. Geraldine Brooks has a rare gift for unearthing small, overlooked historical facts which she then shapes and spins into great human stories. She’s done it three times already (with Year of Wonders, March, and People of the Book) and excels with this, her fourth. The nugget this time […]

The Butterfly Cabinet by Bernie McGill, Hachette, $29.99. The first chapter sets up the classic elements of fiction. A fortress-like castle on an isolated Irish headland. A proud, wealthy family shattered by their young daughter’s death. An old retainer who finds the black-bound diary her Mistress wrote in prison and decides, finally, she must tell […]

Moonlight Mile by Dennis Lehane, Little, Brown, $32.99. Eleven years ago, at the end of Lehane’s Gone, Baby, Gone, hard-bitten private investigators Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro faced a terrible moral dilemma: should they “rescue” missing four-year Amanda McCready if it means taking her away from loving and safe carers and returning her to the […]