Alyx Gorman

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Nour Haydar |Alyx Gorman |Allison Chan |Karishma Luthria |Eelemarni Close-Brown |Daniel Semo | +1 more

Australian cookbook author Nagi Maehashi promises her caramel slice recipe actually works. That the caramel won’t be runny and that it won’t crack or ooze when cut. She shared the recipe on her widely popular website RecipeTin Eats several years ago, and then last year, noticed a recipe with uncanny similarities in a bestselling book by Brisbane bakery owner Brooke Bellamy.

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Colman Domingo arrives in a sapphire cloak and golden mantel designed by Alessandro Michele, formerly of Gucci and now at the helm of Valentino. Photograph: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for the Met Museum/Vogue Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Sing Sing star sheds the cloak to reveal a joyfully pattern-clashing look of grids and polka dots.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Steph Harmon |Sian Cain |Michael Sun |Lucy Clark |Celina Ribeiro |Alyx Gorman | +3 more

I Want Everything by Dominic AmerenaFiction, Simon & Schuster, $34.99This debut novel luxuriates in the lies it weaves. Dominic Amerena is a confident storyteller, jumping between the novel’s two narrators with ease. One, a down-on-his-luck writer searching for a story. The other, a reclusive Australian novelist who disappeared from the public eye at the height of her career.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Alyx Gorman

Just days before their titles go head to head in an industry award, Australia’s bestselling cookbook author, Nagi Maehashi, has accused one of the country’s next bestsellers, Brooke Bellamy, of plagiarism. Ordinarily claims of literary theft would be fairly straightforward, but in recipe writing, allegations are far less clear cut. After all, there are only so many ways you can bake a cake – or in this case, baklava and caramel slice.

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Catie McLeod |Alyx Gorman

Sad, dizzyingly over-scheduled and suffering a serious case of “thumb fatigue”, midway through last year, Anne* decided to delete her dating apps. For the previous four months, the 31-year-old Sydney resident had been attempting to achieve two major adult milestones at once: finding love and finding a place to buy. Every Saturday, it felt as though she was being priced out of another suburb, and at auctions she was mainly surrounded by couples.