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In 30 words or less, tell us what is great about a book you are reading at the moment. The best critique will be printed in the January issue of The Weekly and the writer will win The AWW Cooking School cookbook, valued at $74.95. COCO CHANEL: THE LEGEND AND THE LIFEBy Justine Picardie, Harper […]

Keira Knightley, 25, is the first choice to star as the late Princess of Wales in a movie that will span Diana’s unhappy marriage to Prince Charles, the births of her sons Prince William and Prince Harry, and her untimely death in a car accident in 1997. Dame Helen Mirren, 65, is also rumoured to […]

Proud mum Olivia Newton-John is over the moon about her once-wayward daughter’s engagement. The look of love and the playful twinkle in her eyes say it all. After years of dramatic and heartbreaking ups and downs, Chloe Lattanzi has finally found the man of her dreams. And she’s wasted no time in announcing her plans […]

Just 12 months after divorcing Chris Evert, Greg Norman is set to wed his long-time lover. Her children already call him dad, but his own daughter is furious. Aussie golf champion Greg Norman plans to marry the woman his family blames for the break up of his marriage to first wife Laura Andrassy – and […]

Myrna Colley-Lee has reportedly pocketed around US$400 million in cash and assets after her 26-year marriage to actor Morgan Freeman came to an end in 2009. In pictures: Most expensive divorces Early whispers put the figure at US$175 million, but US magazine The National Inquirer has claimed the figure is much higher. The settlement includes […]

I Came To Say Goodbye, By Caroline Overington, Bantam Australia, $32.95. The reality of the often hidden child welfare system is revealed by this powerful story of a broken family in an Australian country town. The themes in this brilliant book are played out on news bulletins across Australia every week. A young woman in […]

THE SLAP, BY CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS, ALLEN & UNWIN, $32.95. Melbourne’s inner suburbs and family and friends gather for a barbecue. A child acts brattishly. One of the guests (not his parents) delivers the boy a stinging slap – and sets off a chain of events both extraordinary and familiar, which is the key to this […]

BY NIGHTFALL, BY MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM, FOURTH ESTATE, $27.99. Manhattan art dealer Peter Harris is struggling with the kind of concerns only the rich can afford to contemplate at length. Am I happy? What is art? What is beauty? Pulitzer Prize-winning author (for The Hours), Michael Cunningham, writes so exquisitely it’s almost possible to forgive his […]

A series of phone messages threaten to bring down one of Hollywood’s most intriguing marriages. After five years of marriage, Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s relationship is facing its toughest challenge yet, with Star magazine publishing text messages from Ashton to the woman who claims she had an affair with him. As Woman’s Day reported […]