The bold-faced world of Vanity Fair’s Tina Brown
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
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
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?
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
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
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!
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
In 1975, British author Shirley Conran became famous for her book, Superwoman. In it, she took on the notion which...