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As we come out of the depths of winter and into the warmer days of spring, it’s time for one last hurrah, curled up with a book in a sunny nook – and these fabulous fiction recommendations will keep you busy until those blossoms have popped and made way for fruit. Keep an eye out [...]
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Rating: I still remember the dog-eared copy of my mum’s Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book - resplendant with the hickory dickory clock and numbered cakes to careen over with delight. Well, get set post-Baby Boomers, because a whole new generation of super dooper cakes for kids is out in AWW’s glossy new More Cakes for [...]
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Rating: If the stunning cover with its embossed typeface and gorgeously retro greenhouse tea party doesn’t hook you in, the subtitle surely will – recipes and styling for unforgettable parties. And, yes they are unforgettable… most happily – in a good way. Gone are the days of the predictable ‘dinner party’ – a fad of [...]
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Rating: From the team behind yourfamilyyourmoney.com.au comes this third advice-packed manual on conquering money matters – namely, surviving the complicated and oft devastating rift that is divorce. Analaura and Wilson Luna are a husband and wife team who spend their lives counselling and supporting families on all things financial. They’ve appeared on A Current Affair, [...]
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Rating: Let’s just get to the heart of the matter. It’s going to be tough to explain how much I loved this book. This may help: my heart raced every time I saw its black, cloth-bound cover (the gorgeously-styled dust jacket was, of course, packed away carefully to be reunited with said book after I [...]
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Rating: We all know how vital the experience of play is for children and their mental, emotional and physical development. Even the most basic playtime encases a world of wonder and advancement in children on a hollistic level, well into their tweens and even teens. It’s sad, then, that as we age, we lose the [...]
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In 2008, my husband and I made the impetuous decision to snaffle the kids out of school and head to Disneyland. To abscond. To play hooky from life. Irresponsible? Maybe. Naughty? A little. Exciting? Oh yes! because we’re not talking Hong Kong Disney – oh no. Nor Paris, Tokyo nor Florida. Phhht. We’re talking the [...]
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It astounds and delights me when authors write first books that are totally enthralling and emotionally satisfying – as though they have been penning novels for many years and have the experience and wherewithal to rustle up something fabulous at the drop of a hat. Not one to suggest author Helen Simonson dropped her hat [...]
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With only weeks to go until Dad’s very special day, gift ideas are well and truly wrapped up with this stash of fabulous book ideas from fiction to photography. For the man who has everything and the garden shed, you can never go wrong with a book.
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What do newborns need their parents to know? Well, for a start – that life will never be the same again. Oftentimes those overwhelming first weeks and months of a baby’s life is all about going back to basics for parents, and having to wade through the pages of schmaltzy parenting books that focus on [...]
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