Lauren Sams began her career at Cosmopolitan before moving to Girlfriend as deputy editor. She’s now back at Cosmo as Associate Editor and Managing Editor of Cosmopolitan Bride. She writes for Elle, Marie Claire and Sunday Style, and her work regularly appears on dailylife.com.au. She chats to Elizabeth Earl about her new novel She’s Having Her Baby. She’s Having Her Baby by L... Read more

Jacqueline Harvey’s bestselling Alice-Miranda series began as an idea for a picture book but it soon became apparent that this perpetually positive seven-and-a-quarter-year-old had a lot more to say. The series has been sold to the United States, United Kingdom, Indonesia and Turkey and has been shortlisted for children’s book awards in Australia. She chats to John Purcell. Alice-Miranda at the... Read more

Ros Reines is one of Australia’s best known gossip columnists. She chats to John Purcell about her new novel The Social Diary, which is set among Sydney’s A-list in the Eighties The Social Diary is her second novel after the well received Gossip in 2005. The Social Diary : A Novel by Ros Reines A gossipy and glamorous novel of 80s excess from the author of the real-life gossip colum... Read more

Janella Purcell is one of Australia’s favourite nutritionists and cookbook authors. She shares the secrets of her delicious Bircher Muesli with The Incompetent Cook. Janella’s Super Natural Foods Janella’s Super Natural Foods by Janella Purcell Keeping it deliciously simple is Janella’s healthy food philosophy. Using many superfoods and grains, she has created over 150 f... Read more

Robert Dessaix is a writer, translator, broadcaster and occasional essayist, responsible for the acclaimed memoirs A Mother’s Disgrace and As I Was Saying. He chats to Caroline Baum about his latest book What Days Are For.   What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia’s finest writers. One Sunday night in Sydney, ... Read more

Connie has fought cancer three times in her life, but this time things are different. Connie is dying and she doesn’t have much time left. Faced with the fight of her life, she set her brother Samuel the toughest challenge she could think of. To set a new Guinness World Record for the most distance travelled on a unicycle, raise $1 million and spread Connie’s message of breast cancer awareness.... Read more

Let’s talk about the future. Sci fi is a seriously big genre. Futurological Sci Fi is a subgenre that has fun with projecting future societies. It’s all about enjoying the exploration of ideas and projections of what our world isn’t. And those differences indicate the fears, hopes and humour of any given author. So here are my top ten FSF books. ————... Read more

The Booktopia Book Guru asks Paula Hawkins author of The Girl on the Train Ten Terrifying Questions ____________ 1. To begin with why don’t you tell us a little bit about yourself – where were you born? Raised? Schooled? I was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, I lived there – and went to school there, obviously – until I was seventeen. 2. What did you want to be when you were twelve, eighte... Read more

Jimmy B Prince, author of the For Dummies Guide to Tax for Australians, shares his 5 best tips for a stress free tax period... Read more

Australian novelist Cathryn Hein, author of The Falls, The French Prize, Heartland and much more gives her verdict on the books she’s been reading. With nine books to read and judge for the Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA awards – none of which I can tell you about, sorry! – I didn’t have much personal reading time left. But I did manage three wonderful books. Re... Read more