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Getaway presenter Catriona Rowntree discusses her favourite books in our new monthly Book Club feature. What was the last book you read? After reading a recommendation in this very magazine, I grabbed at the airport, en route to Tuscany, Frances Mayes’ latest offering Every Day Iin Tuscany. To read her colourful description of her beloved […]

Detective Anna Travis’ worst nightmare comes true when a sadistic killer she helped put behind bars claims he can help her with a murder investigation. A redhead, clad in snappy suits and starched collars, Lynda La Plante’s Detective Inspector Anna Travis has crime investigation in her blood. Her late father was a detective chief superintendent […]

Read our review of Elizabeth Speller’s The Return Of Captain John Emmett then tell us what you think on the form below for a chance to win a copy of the AWW Cooking School cook book and have your critique printed in The Australian Women’s Weekly books pages. When a young English soldier unexpectedly commits […]

Win our Book of the Month Be one of the first 25 people to sign up to the Simon & Schuster monthly update and correctly answer the competition question for your chance to win a free book! About the book At a certain time in life, we all come to realise what is truly important […]

Read our review of Nicky Pellegrino’s Recipe For Lifethen tell us what you think on the form below for a chance to win a copy of the AWW Cooking School cook book and have your critique printed in The Australian Women’s Weekly books pages. Mediterranean turquoise cover, splashed with a couple of ripe lemons and […]

The past returns to the present in this story by Catherine Lyons, the 2009 winner of The Australian Women’s Weekly/Penguin Short Story Contest. Download the unedited version of Catherine’s wining story The Ghosts Of The Williows here.

Download your exclusive extract from Complicit by Nicci French here. A story of friendship, desire and murder that moves backwards and forewords in time, drawing you in deeper and deeper. It’s a long, hot summer and carefree Bonnie falls madly in love with a gorgeous but dangerous man, only to plunge into a sticky web […]

An impish black kitten called Cleo holds the key to happiness for a family, in this exclusive extract from a story by Helen Brown. Download your exclusive extract from Cleo: How An Uppity Cat Helped Heal A Family by Helen Brown here.

Download your exclusive extract from Pearl In A Cage by Joy Dettman here. About the author: “What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen,” observed prominent American short story writer and novelist Cynthia Ozick. Glimpses of the landscape of Joy Dettman’s early years reveal how her permanent […]

Download your exclusive first chapter from Bad Behaviour by Liz Byrski here. About the author: Even today, Liz Byrski can hardly believe it. There she was in London in 1968, a very exciting place to be in a year of monumental change and upheaval, and what was she doing? “I was pregnant with my first […]

Download your exclusive first chapter from Don’t Tell Eve by Airlie Lawson here. About the author: The desite to write can strike at any age. In the case of Airlie Lawson, who spent the first decade of her life on a farm in South Australia, where she had a horse called Punch, the urge expressed […]

Download your exclusive first chapter from Perfection by Julie Metz here. About the author: Julie Metz is a graphic designer and freelance writer. She lives with her daughter and partner in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently a recipient of a Macdowell Fellowship. About the book: A breathtakingly honest, gloriously written memoir about the complexities of […]

Download your exclusive first chapter from The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey here. About this book: An epic and strikingly original love story set in hot, steamy Trinidad. British couple George and Sabine arrive there as passionate newly weds. He is seduced by the beauty of the place, she senses the […]

Download your exclusive first chapter from My Husband’s Sweethearts by Bridget Asher here. About this book: Lucy Shoreman discovers in one fell swoop that not only has her husband Artie been cheating on her, but that his heart is failing and he’s dying. So in a drunken moment she takes his little black book, and […]

About this book: Egypt, 1977: Oliver, an English geophysicist expert in oil exploration, finds himself unwillingly swept up in a world of political and mystical sabotage after his wife, Isabella, a marine archaeologist, drowns while recovering a mysterious ancient astrolabe she’d been searching for all her life. About the author: Tobsha Learner was born and […]

An exclusive extract from the Great Read in the May issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly: What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (Pan McMillan) Was that talkback radio she could hear? She hated talkback radio. The callers were so cranky and nasal. They were always appalled by something. Alice said that she’d never been appalled […]

Last week I had a telephone call with two film producers who were interested in buying the rights for my new novel, What Alice Forgot. It was all very tense and thrilling. “Shhhh,” I said to my toddler, George, to indicate that this was important, and maybe he’d like to go and quietly read his […]

An exclusive extract from the Great Read in the April issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly: The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Fig Tree) Constantine came to work in our house at six in the morning and at harvest time, she came at five. That way she could fix Daddy his biscuits and gravy before he […]

Exclusive extract from The Australian Women’s Weekly Great Read, March issue Still Alice (Simon and Schuster) by Lisa Genova. “John?” Alice waited, suspended in the front hallway, holding the handle of her suitcase. Harvard Magazine lay on the top of a pile of unclaimed mail strewn on the floor in front of her. The clock […]

Exclusive extract from The Hunter’s Wife by Katherine Scholes, the Great Read in the February issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Mara peered intently ahead as she steered the Old Land Rover over the trackless terrain, avoiding the honey-badger holes and termite hills. The two Manyala Land Rovers had set off a little earlier and […]

Extract from January’s Great Read:The Other Side of Starsby Clemency Burton-Hill. He had gone to the gala performance of Phedre at the Theatre du Chalet as part of a British Embassy delegation; he couldn’t even remember now what the occasion had been. A fuss had been made before the curtain went up, though, because due […]

Exclusive extract from How To Break Your Own Heart by Maggie Alderson, the Great Read in the November issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. ‘Do you always sleep in separate beds? Kiki’s question took me so much by surprise that I’d answered her truthfully before I had time to think about it. I hadn’t had […]

There are few pastimes more pleasurable than curling up with a good book and losing yourself in another world. Books Editor Carol George spoke to Bryce Courtenay, one of Australia’s best-loved authors, about which stories inspired his own literary passion. The only thing I ever stole in my life was a book. I was six […]

Download your exclusive first chapter from East of the Sun by Julia Gregson here. Responsible young woman, twenty-eight years old, fond of children with knowledge of India, will act as chaperone on Tilbury to Bombay run in return for half fare. It seemed like a form of magic to Viva Holloway when, having paid three […]

Exclusive extract from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer, the Great Read in the August issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly.

Exclusive extract fromThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Societyby Mary Ann Shaffer, the Great Read in the August issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. From Juliet to Sidney 22 May 1946 There’s so much to tell you. I’ve been in Guersney only twenty hours, but each one has been so full of new faces […]

Exclusive extract from The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton, the Great Read in the July issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. A sharp turn and Eliza was thrown against the hard, cold door. Shocked from sleep, it took her some moments to remember where she was, why she was alone in a darkened carriage being […]

Exclusive extract fromThe Dark Mountainby Catherine Jinks, the Great Read in the June issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. The day itself was hot and sultry. A late storm threatened in the slow gathering of dark clouds to the north, but from sunrise it was evident that there would be no early relief. I remember […]

Exclusive extract from Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner. When I was a kid, our small-town paper published wedding announcements, with descriptions of the ceremonies and dresses and pictures of the brides. Two of the disc jockeys on one of the local radio stations would spend Monday morning picking through the photographs and nominating the Bow-Wow […]

Exclusive extract from Trip of a Lifetime by Liz Byrski. Later, even when she’d had time to think about it, she still couldn’t remember anything unusual about that evening; no sense of foreboding, no warning signal, not even feeling of unease. The meeting ran late, it was dark and wet as they came out of […]

Exclusive extract from Addition by Toni Jordan. It’s Friday, 13 degrees. It’s exactly 10.30 a.m. I leave the house on foot, like I do every day. 150 steps to the corner, then 400 to the next corner. 20 to cross the street. 325 to the next corner, then 25 paces to the front of the […]

Download your exclusive first chapter from Bitter Chocoalte by Lesley Lokko here. Marrying The Bookie’s Daughter Port-au-Prince, Haiti 1985 On a hot, sultry afternoon in May when the breeze has stopped and the air was oppressively still, Ameline, the reste-avec in the St Lazare household, pushed open the door to the parlour, dragging her bucket […]

Exclusive extract from A Question of Death (Allen and Unwin) by Kerry Greenwood. Marrying The Bookie’s Daughter ‘Phryne,’ said Lindsay Herbert. ‘Will you marry me?’ Phryne Fisher had been drowsing, lying naked on her moss-green sheets with the young man’s head on her shoulder. Now she was shocked awake. She released Lindsay and slid down […]

Exclusive extract from monsoon by Do Morrissey (Published by Pan MacMillan). Sandy pushed the send button and then, in the twilight, changed into cotton shorts, a T-shirt and running shoes and walked down to Hoan Kiem Lake in the centre of Hanoi to think about her future. She loved the tranquil scenery there – weeping […]

Exclusive extract from Broken (Macmillan Australia) by Ilsa Evans , the Great Read in the September 2007 issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. She’d worn white to her wedding. Huge clouds of frosted white that billowed around her in the wind like fairytale snow. Against her waist she held a bouquet of milky roses that […]

Exclusive extract from Buying A Piece of Paris (Scribe) by Ellie Nielsen, the Great Read in the August 2007 issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. It’s true. I didn’t understand French meat. And what I wanted, more than anything else in the world, was to walk into that butcher’s shop and buy a piece of […]

Exclusive extract from Still Life With Husband (Vintage) by Lauren Fox. “Nobody’s staring at me!” I say again. “What are you talking about?” But then I see him, the young, dark-haired man sitting alone across the room. He is unshaven in a sexy, can’t-be-bothered way (but also potentially in an unemployed way); he’s stuck a […]

EExclusive extract from The Scandal of the Season (Random House Australia) by Sophie Gee. Arabella Fermor was looking at herself in the glass, considering on which side of her cheek the morning’s beauty patch should be placed. She stepped back so that Betty, her maid, could tighten the robings on her stays. Arabella’s lapdog, Shock, […]

Exclusive extract from This Way to the Sea by Gillian Nicholson. Bindi’s vanished, so Christo gives her a whistle. We hear her crashing through the bush before we see her parting a sea of tall grass as she runs to us. She throws herself onto the lawn at our feet, grunting and rolling and wiping […]

Exclusive extract fromShearwater(Viking) by Andrea Mayes. In that place, the birds come and go in great clouds, and the season turns at the rush of grey wings. Through spring and summer dusk falls to their rhythm, and in the winter, the land is bereft, hushed and waiting for their return. These are the shearwaters, mutton-birds, […]

Exclusive extract from Blind Submission (Allen and Unwin) by Debra Ginsberg. “Well, why don’t we sit down and get started?” Lucy said, gesturing for me to sit on the couch. Craig positioned himself on a chair next to me, holding a legal pad on his lap. Lucy sat down next to me, so close our […]

Exclusive extract from From Baghdad, With Love (Pan Macmillan Australia) by Lieutenant Colonel Jay Kopelman. I don’t remember exactly when I got to the house that served as our command post in the north-west sector of Fallujah, and I don’t remember exactly how I got there. I remember being exhausted, the tiredness weighing more heavily […]

Exclusive extract from The Consequences of Marriage by Isla Dewar (Headline). These days, the allotment, with its winding brick paths, small white picket fences and vibrant flowerbeds, was a little neglected. Weeds had pushed up through the cracks in the path, and the small shed where the tools were kept, and where Bibi sat by […]

Exclusive extract from The Valley by Di Morrisey (Pan Macmillan Australia). Dani was glad they were in Helen’s old station wagon as the back roads were dirt and gravel. She could hardly believe the beauty of the gullies and hills, and every so often a vista of green river. She took photos of old houses […]

Exclusive extract from Belly Dancing for Beginners by Liz Byrski (published by Pan Macmillan Australia). Gayle had cried so long and so hard that her face burned, her throat ached and her body felt drained by the intensity of her emotions. She had wept for the loss of her daughter, the yawning gap of the […]

Exclusive extract from Listen by Kate Veitch (published by Viking/Penguin). They were plump, meaty birds, Rosemarie admitted grudgingly as she shoved in handfuls of stuffing. The rich creamy-yellow colour of the plucked skin was testament to their short but happy lives, in a generous yard with good food and plenty of it, and they would […]

An exclusive extract from Three Bags Full(Doubleday) by Leonie Swann. ‘He was healthy yesterday,’ said Maude. Her ears twitched nervously. ‘That doesn’t mean anything,’ pointed out Sir Ritchfield, the oldest ram in the flock. ‘He didn’t die of an illness. Spades are not an illness.’ The shepherd was lying in the green Irish grass beside […]

Exclusive extract from The Shifting Fog (Allen & Unwin) by Kate Morton. The week passed quickly. With so many extra people in the house I was kept busy making up rooms, carrying tea trays, laying out luncheons. This pleased me well as I was not shy of hard work — Mother had made sure of […]

Exclusive extract from Once upon a day (Allen & Unwin) by Lisa Tucker, the Great Read in the June issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Stephen Spaulding was very happy, and you can’t say that about most people. He hadn’t sought happiness, but he recognized it. This was his gift: to know what he had. […]

Exclusive extract from Sparkles (Headline/Review) by Louise Bagshawe. ‘So,’ the lady said. ‘You have come at last.’ ‘Just so, madame,’ said Sophie, nervously. Her mother in law shook her head and made a little moue of annoyance with her thin lips. ‘Speak English, girl, for heaven’s sake,’ she snapped. ‘You were never any good at […]

1. Go on a reading course. Nobody wants to hear this, everybody ignores it. It’s not sexy advice. But it matters. To write in a given style you must steep yourself in that style. Say you want to write a chick lit book. Before you start, pop down to your bookstore. Get the Shopaholic books, […]

Exclusive extract from The Stone Angel (Macmillan) by Katherine Scloles. Stella’s hand looked large and pale in the undersea light. Strands of hair drifted in front of her mask. She held onto a rock as a swell came through, swirling the weeds. When the sea became still again she pulled her knife from the sheath […]

Exclusive extract from Anybody out there? By Marian Keyes. I used to dream of a white wedding. The kind of dream where you jerk awake in the middle of the night, drenched in sweat, your head pounding. A dream in the worst nightmare kind of way. I could see it all. The months of bickering […]

Exclusive extract from Left Bank by Kate Muir. Olivier was in Barthélémy’s cheese shop on the Rue de Grenelle, his nostrils flaring on delight at the loamy, buttery smell. You could leave the cooking up to the maid, but not the selection of cheeses for a dinner party. Was it not Olivier’s favourite foodie, Anthelme […]

Here are author Sue Williams’ top four writing tips: 1. Start The hardest thing is getting started. I’m a great believer in just picking up a pen, or firing up the computer, and making a start. Get yourself going, and write a couple of thousand words quickly to warm up. You can always go back […]

Exclusive extract from Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman. In the Olivia books, it still doesn’t matter if the little white pig is not at all sleepy. She still has to take a nap. William, however, is under no such compulsion. His mother has decreed that since William’s imagination is so “activated,” since […]

You can’t just tell the reader the emotion your character is experiencing, you have to show them. You do this by creating images using bricks of significant detail. God and the devil are in the detail. As Strunk and White wrote in The Elements Of Style, “if those who have studied the art of writing […]

Today we are going to explore one of the x factors in writing fiction, faith. Writing, like any creative endeavour, involves uncertainty and requires an act of faith. Faith in our imagination, faith in ourselves, faith in the creative process and faith in the stories we want to tell. When you sit down in front […]

Exclusive extract from Social Crimes (Allen and Unwin) written by Jane Stanton Hitchcock. Murder was never my goal in life. I’m a very sentimental person at heart. I cry in old movies. I love animals and children. I’m a pushover for a beggar in the street. So if anyone had told me five years ago […]

Exclusive extract from One Sunday (Macmillan), written by Joy Dettman. Tom heard that hammering and he didn’t want to wake up and hear it took it into his dream. It was the young Ronnie, in uniform. In his dream, he reached for his oldest boy, then he saw he had no face, no arms, and […]

One of the biggest mistakes writers make is trying to do everything perfectly, immediately. Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird, writes, “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. Perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness, playfulness and life force.” Most people discover that when they learn to turn off […]

Writing fiction is not an intellectual exercise. One of the keys to creating powerful fiction is to evoke emotion in your writing. You want your writing to create an emotional response in the reader. It is the emotion that will connect the writer and the reader to your characters and your story. So when you […]

Author Gabrielle Lord shares her top four writing tips: Read books about writing, especially screenplay writing, or better still, do some courses in this area. To develop good knowledge of structure, pace and narrative, there’s nothing better than understanding how a story works and that’s what happens with screenplay writing. Storyline your story – that […]

Exclusive extract from The Last Anniversary (Macmillan), written by Liane Moriarty. Sophie had been going out with Thomas for nearly a year when she decided to break up with him. The decision was the result of weeks of agonised self-analysis. Yes, she loved him, but did she love him for the right reasons? She knew, […]

Many people have a lot of misconceptions about writers and the process of writing. One of them is that in order to write, you have to be in the mood and that successful writers feel wildly enthusiastic and inspired every time they sit down to write. In fact, just the opposite is true for most […]

If you want to write fiction, whether it be short stories, novels or filmscripts or plays, we recommend you start writing by following these three basic rules from Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Keep your pen moving Capture first thoughts Let yourself write junk These deceptively simple rules are designed to help you access […]

Monica McInerney’s latest and fifth book Family Baggage (Penguin Books) was selected as the Great Read by The Australian Women’s Weekly and was a bestseller. To all aspiring writers, Monica highly recommends Stephen King’s On Writing. Here are Monica’s four top writing tips: 1. Space Set aside a writing area in your house that won’t […]

Exclusive extract from Plan B (Review), written by Emily Barr. It was a terrible day to emigrate. The sun was shining. The sky was a deep spring blue. My breath came in clouds all around me. Clifton Street was beautiful. The tall white houses opposite were bleached by the light. I could smell the sea […]

Exclusive extract from Gone With The Windsors (HarperCollins) by Laurie Graham. Gone With The Windsors is the story of the affair between American widow Wallis Simpson and the Prince of Wales and the crisis that followed when Edward chose love over duty and abducted from the throne. Based loosely on historical fact and set in […]

Exclusive extract from Those Garrison Women by Louise Shaffer, published by Bantam. The newspaper could have been hers. Hank had been toying with the idea of selling it for a couple of years, and Peggy had offered to buy it for her. Peggy Garrison had been her friend, as were the two other members of […]

Exclusive extract from the Great Read in the June issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly: Family Baggage by Monica McInerney, published by Penguin/Viking. It was all coming back to her, Harriet Turner realised. The key to being a successful tour guide was to think of herself as a duck. A mother duck, to be precise. […]

Call Me Elizabeth, Wife, Mother, Escort – A True Story by Dawn Annandale (Time Warner $29.95) When Dawn Annandale’s marriage falls apart she is confronted with a pile of debts and a burning desire for her children to stay at their posh schools. Needing to make a lot of money very quickly, she decides to […]

The Australian Women’s Weekly is delighted to announce that publishing giant, Penguin Australia, have become our partners in what has become one of the biggest and most popular writing contests in Australia. The 2005 short story competition will be launched in August at the Byron Bay Writers Festival by the Editorial Director of The Australian […]

Exclusive Extract from The Italian Romance by Joanne Carroll. One thing I know for sure is that whoever she is, this woman who knows my family, I do not want to meet her in full view of a voracious pack of strangers. I get up. I must have lost my balance, for whatever-his-name-is has grabbed […]

When she turned off the ignition that evening, Barbara Havers remained inside the Mini, once again listening disconsolately to its sputtering engine. She rested her head on the steering wheel. She was knackered. Odd to think that spending hours upon hours on computers and telephones was more exhausting than hoofing round London to track down […]

Selected as the Great Read in the March issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. Prologue August 1986 People didn’t have babies on aeroplanes. They just didn’t. Well – well, actually they did. And then it was all over the newspapers. ‘Gallant aircrew deliver bouncing boy,’ it said, or words to that effect, and then went […]

Selected as the Great Read in the February issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. A poignant, funny story, told through a series of letters and emails between Rosie and Alex, best friends since childhood. Through the years the possibility of a romance between the two hangs tantalisingly in the air, but life seems to conspire […]

Selected as the Great Read in the January issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. There is a Mute in the Kitchen Devi never cooked. It wasn’t like she was a terrible cook; she’d just never done it before. Saroj had tried to teach her children to cook without having them actually cook in her kitchen, […]

Santa Kid by James Patterson (Headline $29.95) Best selling thriller writer James Patterson turns his hand to writing for...

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation by Lauren Willig (Bantam $29.95) An American student, Eloise, comes to London to research a couple of historical spies and comes upon the trail of the most elusive agent of all, the Pink Carnation who saved England from Napoleonic invasion. A breezy historical romance, escapist and enjoyable. My […]

Selected as the Great Read in The Australian Women's Weekly - The Tenko Club.

Selected as the Great Read in the November issue of The Australian Women's Weekly.

Selected as the Great Read in the October issue of The Australian Women's Weekly.

Selected as the Great Read in the September issue of The Australian Women's Weekly.

An exclusive interview with Lynne Minion, author of Hello Missus: A Girl's Own Guide to Foreign Affairs (HarperCollins)

Selected as the Great Read in the August issue of The Australian Women's Weekly.

Your latest book, Spiking The Girl, partly involves an iconic sports star caught up in a big scandal - I assume you wrote it well before the news about the AFL and rugby allegations hit the headlines?

Nineteen year old Queenslander and marketing student, Sarah Risley, who works at Cleveland Newsagency in Brisbane, was given a challenge – how to promote the books selected as the Great Read by The Australian Women’s Weekly? Sarah Risley set up a fantastic display just inside the front door of Cleveland Newsagency, where customers can check […]

Selected as the Great Read in the July issue of The Australian Women's Weekly.

Dame Stella Rimington, former head of British Intelligence, MI5 is the author of At Risk (Random House Australia), a stunning debut thriller and The Australian Women's Weekly July Great Read.

Jojo Moyes’ new book, The Peacock Emporium (Hodder & Stoughton) has been selected as the Great Read in the June issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. **Q Congratulations on The Peacock Emporium, I really loved it! A** Oh, did you? It is a bit deeper and darker than my previous books and I was a […]

Selected as the Great Read in the June issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. 1963: Framlington Hall, Norfolk He looked perfect in black tie, of course. Unlike her father, whose stomach strained uncomfortably against his cummerbund like a wind-filled sail, Douglas simply looked taller and straighter, his shoulders square in the crisp dark cloth of […]

Selected as the Great Read in the May issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. It was just after 9 a.m. Eight hours after Grace had arrived home last night, let herself in and discovered the stereo on, some opera or other blaring loudly, and Spencer crashed out on the sofa. Arms dangling, thighs splayed, his […]

Alexandra Potter’s latest book, Do you Come Here Often? (Black Swan) has been selected as the Great Read in the May issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. **Q What kind of book did you set out to write? A** I was interested in the idea of people in relationships for a long period of time […]

Marian Keyes’ novel, The Other Side of the Story (Penguin/Michael Joseph) has been selected as the Great Read in the April issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. **Q Congratulations on your new book, The Other Side Of The Story, it made me laugh so much – I had more fun with it than I’ve had […]

Selected as the Great Read in the April issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. TO: Susan_inseattle@yahoo.com FROM:Gemma 141@hotmail.com SUBJECT:runaway dad Susan, you wanted news. Well, I’ve got news. Although you might be sorry you asked for it. It looks like my dad has left my mam. I’m not sure how serious it is. More as […]

She's faced bullets and bazookas, and told it like it is in conflicts around the globe. Now, Kate Adie, BBC journalist and possibly the world's most famous female war correspondent, has written a new book, From Corsets to Camouflage, a history of women in war.

This taut, terrific thriller was selected as the Great Read in the March issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly. It is a debut novel by university lecturer Jane Goodall, who lives in Sydney. Jane was born in the UK, but has spent most of her life in Australia.

Jane Goodall's novel, The Walker (Hodder) has been selected as the Great Read in the March issue of The Australian Women's Weekly.

EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM JOANNA TROLLOPE’S NEW NOVEL, BROTHER & SISTER, selected as the Great Read in the February issue of The Australian Women’s Weekly and published by Bloomsbury. Natalie had been four when David came to join her. She’d been expecting a baby, not a silent, toddling boy with a big head and big soft […]