Lifestyle
Life & relationships
Why seeing our friends in person is the best choice for our health
There are more benefits to seeing, smelling and touching our friends than catching up with them over the phone.
- by Marta Zaraska
Latest
Create a contemporary reading nook you’ll want to spend hours in
Everything you need to cosy up with a good book, from a fluoro lamp with a gentle glow to a warm wool throw.
- by Georgie Gordon
Magazine
Sunday Life
The June 2 Edition
In our special winter reading issue, we talk with a slew of great writers. Famed Chilean author Isabel Allende graces our cover and share her success story.
Opinion
Marriage
I’m with Prince William – you don’t need to put a ring on it
Carats don’t always lead to marriages that stick, so why bother with a wedding band? The course of true love surely runs no smoother with bling wrapped around your fourth finger.
- by Claire Heaney
From thrillers to a saucy romance, here are the best can’t-put-down winter reads
When it’s too cold to go outside, curl up with a good book.
- by Georgie Gordon
Opinion
Sunday Life
Where do all the bookish kids go if their school doesn’t have a library?
They need a retreat to the quiet world of imagination sometimes, away from the hurly-burly of the playground.
- by Jane Caro
At 81, Isabel Allende knows how she’d like to die: ‘At home, with warm socks and a dog’
The Chilean writer, who has sold more than 74 million books, has an unlikely new project featuring her rescue dog, Perla.
- by Robyn Doreian
The men in Stephanie Alexander’s life are mostly ‘husbands of friends or gay’
“I get plenty of hugs from them and I am happy with that,” says the 83-year-old author and cook.
- by Jane Rocca
Writers’ retreat: Inside Tim Flannery and Kate Holden’s eclectic, coastal home
Inspiration abounds, both in the cabinets of curiosities within this eco-built house and the Illawarra bushland outside.
- by Susan Redman
Ready to quit your job, move abroad and write a book? Go to Greece
Having lived there twice, I know I’m not the first writer to fall in love with the country.
- by Susan Johnson
Gemini: Get ready to embrace a new chapter
Free weekly forecast in life, love and career from renowned astrologer, Hedy Damari.
- by Hedy Damari