Cool new coffee table book uncovers the brilliant history of Australia’s milk bars
I’m not sure what the kids today will consider fond memories when they’re grown up and surpassed their digital addictions. I do know I hold many,…
Arlyn Osborne’s cookbook ‘Sugarcane’ hones in on her Filipino-English heritage but the influences go even further back
Sugarcane is a cookbook that pays homage to Arlyn Osborne’s heritage, this being a blend of Filipino and English ancestry. It is an amalgamation of her…
Release date for Britney Spears memoir announced plus teaser cover art…
Britney Spears’ hotly anticipated autobiography has an official release date and some tentative cover art. The memoir, titled ‘The Woman In Me’, will be available on…
‘American Psycho’ author Bret Easton Ellis says he’s sad for Millennials: “Obviously there’s pain there; this is not the happy generation”
Bret Easton Ellis gets into much strife over the things he says. Usually the critics are a third his age (he’s 59) and have no idea…
Getting a Handle on Anxiety: an excerpt from self-help book ‘You Take Care’
Laura Henshaw and Steph Claire Smith are businesswomen, best of friends, and cofounders of global health and lifestyle brand Keep It Cleaner. Most of all, they…
Spotify expands into the audiobook market: 300,000 titles currently available to stream
Starting today, Spotify users in Australia and the UK, Ireland, and New Zealand will be able to purchase and listen to a catalogue of more than 300,000…
Doing The Write Thing: Theme for Ubud Writers Festival 2022 announced
From 27th-30th October 2022, writers, artists, activists and performers from around the world will converge for the 19th Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF), ready to…
WIN! Copies of beaut new book ‘Sheilas: Badass Women of Australian History’
As the lyric in Eurythmics’ Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves goes: “… they used to say that behind every great man there has to be…
WIN! Copies of the bumper hardcover ‘Guinness World Records 2022’
It’s been a tumultuous 12 months with the Covid pandemic taking a stranglehold on world events, seeing many gigs paused indefinitely. But this hasn’t stopped individuals…
Love, Loss and Family: Jessie Cave’s ‘Sunset’ explores the many facets of grief
Jessie Cave’s debut novel Sunset should immediately be added to your must-read list. If you’re grieving, it’s a must. If you have a tight-knit or disjointed…
Mr Men and Little Miss: How a simple question by one little kid evolved into an iconic global brand
It was one of those questions that would leave most parents scratching their heads. “What does a tickle look like?” That was the query posed by…
WIN! One of 5 packs containing new novels by stellar authors Danielle Steel and Peter James
Cream has your autumnal reading sorted with duo packs of novels by two of the world’s most prominent writers of fiction. Known for his fast-paced and…
The world goes Alice mad again, but this time old-school images are fed through the medium of VR
Who hasn’t been enamoured with Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland since childhood? I myself have around 25 books in various versions of Carroll’s classic tales – wonderfully…
