Books

Faces In The Clouds by Matt Nable, Viking, $29.95. This is a surprising book in so many ways. It starts as a sweet very recognisable family tale about twin brothers growing up in the relative safety of an army barracks life and the wonderfully strong family unit that binds them. It then unfolds quite rapidly […]

She trades her golf clubs for a ballroom gown in the quest for a new tournament win, on Dancing With The Stars. Australian golf great Jan Stephenson is used to turning heads on and off the course. Throughout the 70s and 80s, our queen of the fairways wielded her natural sex appeal with the same […]

The no-fuss food judge has all the ingredients to be a successful parent. From the outside, George Calombaris’s house is just like any other in the stylish Melbourne street he calls home – but once you step through the front gate it’s immediately obvious this is the home of the popular MasterChef judge. Even before […]

As he hits our screens as the hottest MasterChef sensation, the new judge takes us home to his beloved farm to meet the family. Matt Moran might be the newest judge on MasterChef, but away from the TV studio he is still a country boy – happiest at home tending to the family farm with […]

Following the immense popularity of their third album Hands All Over, three-time Grammy award-winners Maroon 5 chat to Woman’s Day about their success and their upcoming Aussie tour. “I just love Australia!” exclaims the band’s keyboardist Jesse Carmichael, 32. “I love the people, the ocean, the surfing, the accents and the general laid back attitude.” […]

Michelle Bridges is well known for transforming Aussies on the hit show The Biggest Loser. Now she shows you how to go one step further in ditching those last few kilos in her new book, Losing the Last 5 Kilos. We asked her about her reading habits. What was the last book you read? The […]

Five years on from the first hit season, host Natalie visits our favourite farmers. Four weddings, two engagements, two babies – and two more on the way – is proof that Nine’s hit series The Farmer Wants A Wife sows seeds of love every season. And when the show sent host Natalie Gruzlewski around the […]

They’ve lost 270kg between them and never looked better. This year’s remaining seven contestants in The Biggest Loser are scrubbing up very well. Just look at the hotties who’ve been hiding beneath their workout gear of lycra leggings and tatty oversize T-shirts! “I feel so good,” says Lara Whalan (Westren family), 25, who’s lost 37kg. […]

The Summer Without Men by Siri Hustvedt, Sceptre, $25 When Mia’s husband of 30 years calls for a pause in their marriage (“the Pause was French with limp but shiny brown hair. She had significant breasts”) she goes mad briefly, is hospitalised, and emerges from hospital shaken but sane into a world entirely made up […]

Savages, by Don Winslow, William Heinemann, $29.95 It was Sir Michael Parkinson — well-known TV interviewer, lesser-known crime buff — who first put me onto Don Winslow, describing his 2005 novel The Power of the Dog as the best crime thriller ever written. He’s probably right. Four books on, Winslow returns to Dog territory, where […]