The bold-faced world of Vanity Fair’s Tina Brown

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On the day that Conde Nast announced the new editor of their treasure, Vanity Fair, a former editor, Tina Brown,...

House-swapping can be an out of this world experience

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Quandry! A dear friend has just told me she wants to find a house in Sydney to swap for hers...

The pearl gleams, out of Granny’s closet

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There's far more to pearl jewellery than the delicate, Jackie O.–style necklaces and preppy stud earrings that reign among the...

Kinfolk is here, but is it staying?

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Skewering the kinfolk trend is a lot of fun, as Morwenna Ferrier of The Guardian indicates with her Signs you...

What to binge on this week: The Sinner, Line of Duty

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Two very different but compelling dramas head the binge list, and there is one series which should perhaps be avoided....

Millions either malnourished or obese in global nutrition crisis

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Too skinny or too fat.... that's the problem for millions of people in the world. And the world itself is...

Nearly Christmas: Time for the book lists!

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With new releases from literary giants such as Arundhati Roy and Paula Hawkins, as well as much-hyped debuts from a...

Conran: Life is still too short to stuff a mushroom

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In 1975, British author Shirley Conran became famous for her book, Superwoman. In it, she took on the notion which...