Life can change in a heartbeat Four minutes and eight seconds. That’s how long my husband, Michael Dunhill, was dead. Four minutes and eight seconds. That’s how long it took for my husband to become a complete stranger to me. To read the first chapter of Skipping a Beat click here. Win our Book of […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger has been photographed wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan ‘I survived Maria’ just three months after his wife left him after discovering he had fathered a love child with their housekeeper. Maria Shriver ended her 25-year marriage to Arnold in May when it emerged that he had cheated on her with their […]

You were glued to the royal wedding coverage and couldn’t switch off the William and Kate Lifetime telemovie (even when ‘William’ started singing karaoke) — now you can relive the royal love story in another cheesy made-for-TV movie. Hallmark’s William & Kate: A Royal Love Story will air in the US later this month and […]

Liz Hurley has detailed the “secret evil regime” she used to whip Shane Warne into shape. Shane has undergone a dramatic makeover since he started getting serious with Liz earlier this year. In pictures: The changing face of Shane Warne He has lost a substantial amount of weight, unveiled a new wrinkle-free face and has […]

Victoria Beckham has tweeted another intimate photo of her husband David cuddling their new daughter Harper. “I took this beautiful picture and wanted to share it with you, baby Harper cuddling Daddy!” Victoria wrote on her Twitter feed. Related: Beckhams introduce baby Harper to the world Harper is David and Victoria’s fourth child and only […]

On Canaan’s Side, Faber and Faber, $29.99. Sebastian Barry woos with words. His lyrical prose carries you off on a warm and engrossing journey conjuring incredibly special characters, gently etched at first then skilfully coloured in as the story deepens. On Canaan’s Side is told through narrator 89-year-old Lilly Bere, who as the novel opens […]

Bossypants by Tina Fey, Sphere, $32.99. Before she perfected her Sarah Palin impersonation, Tina created and played the sparky, sharp-tongued Liz Lemon on TV’s 30 Rock. Before that, she was first female head writer in the legendary boys’ club of Saturday Night Live. Now she’s queen of American comedy and this memoir shows you why […]

The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan, Text, $32.95. You think I’m joking? A book on werewolves? Oh, but such an elegant, tongue-in-hairy-cheek take on the genre it makes you wonder why anyone wastes their time on those dreary and insipid vamps, eternal enemies of the lycanthrope tribe. Our hero (so to speak) is Jake Marlowe, […]

The Roving Party by Rohan Wilson, Allen & Unwin, $27.99. The Vogel literary award has been recognising and rewarding young writers for 30 years now, and this year’s winner is an absolute stand-out. Yes, it is dark and it tells a brutal story of a party of “rovers” (read thugs and killers) roaming the harsh […]

Friends Like These by Wendy Harmer, Allen & Unwin, $32.99. Write what you know, is the standard advice to authors. And as a top-rating and high-earning radio presenter, Wendy Harmer spent long enough on Sydney’s so-called A-list to know it inside out. Now she’s “ratting on it”, as she puts it, and a highly amusing […]