Reader's Digest

Meet the Authors February 2012

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:40:27 +0000

Crime novelist Michael Duffy: 'fascinated by largely good people who end up doing bad things'

Wigs for all occasions - Bill Bryson

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:42:35 +0000

In this extract from his book, At Home: a short history of private life, Bill Bryson examines one of fashion’s more bizarre and uncomfortable crazes

10 most famous self-help books of all time

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:44:59 +0000

Who do you turn to when the chips are down? Josephine Brouard rounds up ten of the most famous self-help tomes of all time.

Extract from The King's Speech

Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:26:41 +0000

Lionel Logue behind the scenes at the royal Christmas

Book News September 2011

Thu, 15 Sep 2011 23:07:37 +0000

The fatal slopes prevail again—storms foil yet another attempt on the summit of K2

Book Reviews August 2011

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:48:37 +0000

The pull of good fiction

Book News August 2011

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:43:09 +0000

Ros Moriarty and the concept of Country

Meet the Authors August 2011

Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:37:09 +0000

William Kent Krueger, master of his own territory

Meet the Authors March 2011

Fri, 06 May 2011 14:33:09 +0000

Author of the Month: John Carlin

Book Reviews April 2011

Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:21:31 +0000

Do you know how the theory of evolution evolved?

Meet the Authors April 2011

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:56:33 +0000

Shamini Flint on writing crime fiction in Singapore

Maggie Beer

Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:04:40 +0000

Maggie shares a special title from her bookshelf French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David

Alexander McCall Smith

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:26:07 +0000

Now aged sixty-two, Alexander McCall Smith is a prolific author. He has written more than sixty books, as well as short stories and radio plays.

An extract from Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:06:44 +0000

Original full-length book published by free Press, a division of Simon & Schuster Ltd, New York. Condensed version copyright © Reader’s Digest (Australia) Pty Ltd. First published in Encounters in 2008

Book Extract- Sir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary Life

Fri, 12 Nov 2010 15:17:26 +0000

Read an extract from the biography of Sir Edmund Hillary by Alexa Johnston. Here is a tale of an international hero, an adventurer and an extraordinarily charitable man.

Meet Lang Lang

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:43:10 +0000

This month Reader's Digest caught up with and Lang Lang

Meet Lisa Niemi

Fri, 04 Jun 2010 03:37:55 +0000

Reader's Digest catches up with Lisa Niemi

Extract from The Tower by Michael Duffy

Mon, 31 May 2010 06:56:37 +0000

Original full-length version published by Allen & Unwin Australia Condensed version © Reader’s Digest (Australia) Pty Ltd 2010

Extract from Sam’s Letters to Jennifer

Fri, 21 May 2010 00:58:04 +0000

Original full-length edition published by Little, Brown & Company, (Inc.), a subsidiary of Time Warner Book Group Inc., New York Condensed version © Reader’s Digest (Australia) Pty Ltd

The Ghost - read an extract from the book

Mon, 17 May 2010 05:44:55 +0000