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In Australian cuisine, they don’t come much bigger than Serge Dansereau. Dansereau started work in Sydney at The Regent in 1983, spending 18 years there while shooting their flagship restaurant to three-hat fame. Serge encouraged a greater knowledge of what we can produce in Australia and worked hard to get it from paddock to plate. In 1998 Dansereau was approached to head up the kitchen ... Read more

The cover of this book is interesting to say the least. It features a man’s face completely black with soot. His eyes seem to be on fire, two miniature flames in the centre of two red irises, red also replacing where the whites of the eyes should be. His hands are on his face, because we can see several fingers – which are also black with soot – on his cheeks. His forehead is mostly obscured by... Read more

Yesterday The New York Times reviewed Stephen King’s Doctor Sleep and gave it a glowing endorsement. Calling it a a “very quick and nimble story”, reviewer Janet Maslin also added “(King) is so good at scaring that he can even raise goose bumps when he writes about the measles”. So…Stephen King…great reviews…the sequel to The Shining… What h... Read more

This September we’re launching Operation GMR, Get Men Reading. To celebrate, we’ve asked some of our favourite Australian authors to give us Five Books Every Man Should Read. Today’s guest is the Australian Romance Reader’s Favourite Author for 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, Anna Campbell. You know the eternal question? At least from the male half of the population. And no, ... Read more

This September we’re launching Operation GMR, Get Men Reading. To celebrate, we’ve asked some of our favourite Australian authors to give us Five Books Every Man Should Read. Today’s guest is the one of Australia’s most loved acclaimed writers, Susan Johnson. Recently I had a conversation with a couple of blokes over lunch about why men don’t read fiction. One affable bl... Read more

This September we’re launching Operation GMR, Get Men Reading. To celebrate, we’ve asked some of our favourite Australian authors to give us Five Books Every Man Should Read. Today’s guest is the one of Australia’s most loved children’s authors, Jacqueline Harvey. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson As a children’s author it seems only right to offer up a ch... Read more

Ugly: My Memoir by Robert Hoge Robert Hoge was born with a massive tumour, severely distorted facial features, legs that were twisted and useless, and a mother who didn’t think she could take her son home. His life could have been achingly sad, but with his family he filled it with joy, optimism and the naughtiness of boyhood. ‘One Saturday morning in early August 1972, my parents s... Read more

This September we’re launching Operation GMR, Get Men Reading. To celebrate, we’ve asked some of our favourite Australian authors to give us Five Books Every Man Should Read. Today’s guest is the one of Australia’s most-respected columnists and writers, Anne Summers. I compiled this list on the 100th anniversary of my father’s birth. He liked to read when he was younger ... Read more

In Doctor Sleep, Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining. An epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon. King says he wanted to know what happened to Danny Torrance, the bo... Read more

This September we’re launching Operation GMR, Get Men Reading. We constantly get asked what books we’d recommend for husbands, sons, fathers, uncles, nephews etc. Today’s guest is the bestselling author of Sunset Ridge, Absolution Creek and many more, Nicole Alexander. Nicole, take it away… The Man from Snowy River by Banjo Patterson No ballad quite sums up the difficult... Read more