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It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas. The carols are playing, the lights are twinkling, the cards are arriving… But alongside that festive fun comes that tense, clammy, slightly anxious response you get whenever you look at the current date. O

It’s no secret that I lové a good rose and it will be holding pride of place at my Christmas table. The new 2021 vintage of the original pale and dry rosé from Provence is a classic vintage that channels a little South of France. It’s super-versatile

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As the countdown to the coronation of King Charles and Camilla, Queen Consort, in May begins, preparations are underway at the palace. A new cypher has been unveiled for Camilla, featuring her own initial, C, intertwined with an R for regina, which i

The world stopped to admire a blood moon this spring, which occurs when Earth passes between the Sun and Moon, bending the Sun’s rays, as captured over the Empire State Building in New York. ■

The next 12 months are going to be awash with firsts in the royal world and many will bring a pall of sadness. Last month, we saw the first Remembrance Day without Queen Elizabeth II and the first with her son Charles as King. This annual royal duty

Shahn Baker Sorekli and Helen Robertson, co-creators of the My Love Your Love relationship therapy app, share their tips for a smooth Christmas: • Learn the 3 P’s of Christmas: Predict negative dynamics which might occur. Visualise and Practise your

This is Fiona McIntosh’s first novel set entirely in Australia. Her heroine, Fleur, is just eight when she is already helping her adoptive undertaker parents prepare bodies. Mother Mae knows their only daughter is capable of running the Port Adelaide

After a disastrous election night loss political staffer Dominic Cochrane decides to take a break to review his career options and moves into a mate’s converted boatshed in picturesque Flounder Bay on Sydney’s northern beaches. The peaceful haven is

For kids and adults, this charming tale centres on Annie Shearer, a loner who loves fixing things, and adopts stray dog Runt. Thanks to his tough street life, Runt has brilliant acrobatic skills which prompt Annie to enter him in a dog show, hoping t

Diana Reid’s new novel is set in post-pandemic Sydney with twenty-something sisters Eleanor and Charlie reshaping their lives. Eleanor is straitlaced, Charlie bohemian, and as their worlds overlap notions of happiness, love and family are raised – la

This thoughtful book is as close as we’ll get to a memoir of Wendy Whiteley. Author Ashleigh Wilson, who has known Wendy for decades and also wrote the biography of Brett Whiteley, sat down for a series of conversations over the course of a year. The

Who is the man behind the joke? Mad as Hell’s Micallef finally reveals himself – the success, failure, love, loss, wine, women and song. “In my 30-year career, I’ve often played a character with my name, but it was never really me.” Growing up in a r

It was a speech that stopped the world, a rallying cry that burst forth unexpected and authentic. Ten years after then-Aussie PM Julia Gillard’s excoriating retort in Parliament to Tony Abbott, the Leader of the Opposition, this powerful collection o

Can you share a favourite festive photo? This is our baby girl Winnie [right]. The photo was taken on her first Christmas with us. Need I say more? What’s your favourite Christmas carol? I’m a sucker for Michael Bublé. As soon as it’s the 1st of Dece