Recent international research shows Australians are buying and reading fewer books than people in many other countries. But why?
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You’re hot? I’m cold! CHRISTIAN MORO & CHARLOTTE PHELPS explain why our office temperature preferences can be vastly different to our colleagues’.
Electric car sales have slumped. Misinformation is one of the reasons, say MILAD HAGHANI & HADI GHADERI.
The science of happier dogs: MIA COBB has five tips to help your canine friends live their best life.
Los Angeles is on fire. How will Australia cope when bushfires hit Sydney, Melbourne or another major city, asks pyrogeography professor DAVID BOWMAN?
Pompeii comes to Australia, and ancient and contemporary stories of disaster and loss converge, writes KYLIE MESSAGE.
‘I don’t hold the hose, mate’: Australia’s political history is full of gaffes. FRANK BONGIORNO lists some of best (or worst).
The most rapid hair greying usually happens between ages 50 and 60. But does anything we do speed up the process? And is there anything we can do to slow it down? THERESA LARKIN has the science.
There are two main ways to stretch – the one you should choose depends on what you want your body to do, write HUNTER BENNETT & LEWIS INGRAM.
Most adults will gain half a kilo this year – and every year. NICK FULLER explains how to stop ‘weight creep’.
Nobleman, soldier, revolutionary, humanist – who was Tadeusz Kościuszko, the man behind the mountain? DARIUS von GUTTNER SPORZYNSKI reviews a profile of his incredible life.
Star Wars can teach us about the economy or as Yoda might say, ‘about economics, it can teach’, writes JOHN HAWKINS.
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![Evie Hudson is a woman with amnesia, who forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control.
Evie is the leading character in local author @emmagreyauthor's second novel Pictures of You.
Her debut book, The Last Love Note, sold more than 100,000 books worldwide within a few months of being published last year.
“I think that using amnesia really helped [show the effects of coercive control] because she had that sense of being completely lost in her own life,” Emma says of her new work of fiction.
To read the full story and find out more about this fabulous local author and her latest novel, visit our website at citynews.com.au or click the link in our bio! 📚✒️
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