The 45-year-old model says there are no shortcuts to keeping slim. It’s hard to believe it’s been 17 years since Elizabeth Hurley sent photographers on the red carpet into a frenzy in that unforgettable Versace black and gold “safety pin” dress. Almost two decades on, the 45-year-old English actress and model is still guaranteed to […]

Insulin, it’s the hormone that helps us unlock energy from food, but too much of it can have a negative impact on our health. Nutritionist and exercise physiologist Caitlin Reid reveals why insulin can be such a problem for our health. Belly fat indicates a bigger problem than being uncomfortable in our skinny jeans; it’s […]

The bad news is there are twice as many people suffering from food allergies than there were ten years ago. The good news is that food manufacturers are catering for these numbers and there are many more alternatives on the market for food allergy sufferers to consume. The bad news is that they are not […]

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 […]

Damn You, Scarlett O’Hara by Darwin Porter and Roy Moseley, BloodMoon Productions, $39.95. It’s a wonder Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh found time to become two of the greatest actors of the 20th century, it seems they were busier in the bedroom than on the stage or screen, and not necessarily with each other. Olivier […]

The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party by Alexander McCall Smith, Little, Brown, $34.99. What a joy to catch up once again with our old fictional friend Precious Ramotswe, and the small mysteries and daily dramas of life in Botswana. Readers familiar with the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency will be thrilled to spot this latest instalment, […]

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, Virago, $29.99. Until she was 28 years old, shy, sheltered Hadley Richardson lived an unremarkable life in suburban Missouri. But in 1920 she met a young aspiring writer, married and moved to a tiny flat in Paris. Her husband was a big drinking man of big ambitions, and his […]