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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 […]

Grace Wang is the victim of one of Australia’s most shocking medical mistakes. During birth, her epidural was filled with antiseptic instead of anaesthetic. Today she is severely handicapped and unable to lift her baby. Sometimes it’s a touch on her face. Sometimes it’s a look exchanged across a meal. Sometimes it’s a shared tear. […]

22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson, Fig Tree, $32.95 There is no shortage of stories inspired by the terrors of World War II and the Nazi occupation of Europe, but Amanda Hodgkinson’s debut novel is so much more than that — beneath the story’s wartime bunker is a complex, intriguing and, in snatched moments, deeply […]

From her screen roles to her romances, Elizabeth Taylor lived always in the spotlight. An enchanting, violet-eyed beauty, Elizabeth was a captivating superstar from childhood. She lived her life in full view of an adoring public, who watched in astonishment as she suffered the heartbreak of eight broken marriages, health problems and recurring treatment for […]

Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor’s life in pictures.

Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor died yesterday morning, aged 79. The actress’ death comes six weeks after she was admitted to Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Medical Center with congestive heart failure, a condition she had suffered from for several years. She was surrounded by her children when she passed away and Michael Wilding, her eldest son, was […]

Hollywood is mourning the death of screen icon Elizabeth Taylor, who died of heart failure on Wednesday aged 79. The famed actress died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after being admitted six weeks ago with congestive heart failure, where the heart cannot pump enough blood to organs. Taylor’s four children were at her […]

Despite recently hosting her own Hollywood birthday bash and surrounding herself with friends, it seems Eva Longoria isn’t coping as well as she is letting on after her split from husband Tony Parker. The 36-year-old actress has said it has been “very hard” to get used to her break-up from the basketball player who prompted […]

Kate Middleton’s parents have sparked fresh controversy after they launched a set of royal-themed scratch cards on their company’s website. The Middleton’s mail-order party supply firm, Party Pieces, is now selling sets of Britannia Scratch Cards designed to be used as entertainment at royal wedding bashes across the UK. In pictures: The most amazing royal […]

Retirement. Snooze. Investments. Yawn. It’s ironic; while financial security is what most of us strive for, it’s an area where we’re likely to bury our heads in the sand. In 2007, The Financial Literacy Foundation reported around 31 percent of adults think dealing with money is boring, while another 48 percent found money matters completely […]