Melanie Kembrey

2 months ago | smh.com.au | Melanie Kembrey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Writer Curtis Sittenfeld’s experience growing up at an elite boarding school inspired a novel, so it’s only fitting that her reunion with her classmates delivered the sequel. “They’re kind of less intense than you think.

2 months ago | smh.com.au | Greg Callaghan |Katrina Strickland |Damien Woolnough |Melanie Kembrey

Journalist Carl Miller has a dilemma. He has gained access to a site on the dark web where people can hire a murderer to kill someone they know. It turns out to be a scam run by a Romanian who pockets the money for hits that are never carried out – but Miller has the names and personal details of the intended victims and realises their lives are potentially in danger because someone they know has paid thousands of dollars to have them killed. What does he do? Does he try to warn them?

2 months ago | watoday.com.au | Greg Callaghan |Katrina Strickland |Damien Woolnough |Melanie Kembrey

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Jan 20, 2025 | smh.com.au | Melanie Kembrey

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Let’s start with a spoiler alert. The plot of the Lunch With column often rests on the restaurant chosen by the dining subject. As with Chekov’s gun, an interviewee doesn’t pick a takeaway sandwich shop unless they want to show how salt of the earth they are; or a nose-to-tail restaurant if they don’t intend to espouse the virtues of sustainable farming practices.

Jan 9, 2025 | watoday.com.au | Melanie Kembrey

BookTok continued to shape fiction sales, with older releases and genre novels dominating the top 10. Colleen Hoover’s 2016 novel It Ends With Us ranked as the fourth-highest seller, boosted by the release of a new edition tied to the controversial film adaptation starring Blake Lively. Desire still burns bright for romantasy, with Sarah J.