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To celebrate our 70th birthday, we asked a few members of the team at The Australian Women’s Weekly to nominate their favourite five books of all time. Here they are: Deborah Thomas, Editor Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer Wild Swans, by Jung Chang The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold The Wilder Shores of Love, […]

We hope you enjoy this exclusive extract is from Three Wishes (Pan MacMillan Australia), by Liane Moriarty, our October Great Read. It was a Wednesday night six weeks before Christmas. A nothing sort of night. An unassuming midweek night that should have vanished from their memories by Friday. ‘What did we do Wednesday?’ ‘I don’t […]

This extract is taken from The Australian Women's Weekly health series Eating Disorders book.

The funeral is not a problem. Maureen simply reacts to other peoples’ distress, which is just another form of obedience after all. Tea and biscuits later is a little harder to manage. A smile insists on creeping into her mind, so she keeps her eyes lowered and speaks only in monosyllables. No one notices. They […]

Snacking may seem like a sensible way to keep your energy levels up, but all-day grazing can put you at increased risk for type II diabetes, stroke and heart disease, say researchers from the Hannah...

The more diverse your circle of friends, the healthier you’ll be. Here are some ‘natural’ ideas on how to connect with others. Put your hand up: Besides introducing you to new people, putting yourself forward for charity or volunteer work makes you feel better about yourself. Open your mind: Fancy making a vegetarian lasagna? Learning […]

An exclusive extract from Wives and Lovers, the Great Read in the August issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Wives and Lovers by Jane Elizabeth Varley is a thoughtful and entertaining exploration of contemporary marriage and family relationships, told through the lives of three sisters. Orion, August, $29.95 Victoria Stratford considered that her husband’s fortieth […]

Exclusive extract from the June Great Read, Henry’s Daughter (Macmillan $30) by Joy Dettman. Bloody solicitor. Mavis always says that they are thieves, and this one is a roast potato thief. She watches him pick up his fork, stab her potato, cut her potato, tuck it underneath his moustache. And she hopes he chokes on […]

Joy Dettman, author of Henry’s Daughter (Pan Macmillan) the Great Read in the July issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Part family saga, part darkly funny fairy-tale that has everything – tragedy, a gorgeous, dusty Australian country town setting, audaciousness, power, life, secrets, heart and one of fiction’s most wicked mothers, although by the end, […]

Read this extract from our May Great Read, Dying for Cake (Pan Macmillan Australian).