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Scotsman
5 days ago
- Business
- Scotsman
Kindle Scribe drops to £279.99 in rare Amazon deal
The Kindle Scribe combines distraction-free reading with powerful digital writing tools | Amazon This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. Amazon has slashed £100 off the Kindle Scribe – its powerful digital notebook with Premium Pen, now down to just £279.99 for a limited time. Sign up to our daily newsletter Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Edinburgh News, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... If you're thinking of upgrading your holiday reading setup, now's the time – because the Kindle Scribe has just dropped to £279.99 on Amazon, matching its best-ever price and saving you £100 off the usual £379.99. This isn't the first time the Scribe has been reduced to this level, but these deals rarely stick around – they tend to last just a few days at a time. And with summer travel on the horizon, it's the ideal moment to snap one up if you want to streamline your reading, note-taking, and document-marking while on the move. Unlike any other Kindle, the Scribe doubles as a digital notebook, letting you scribble thoughts directly onto the page, annotate documents, sketch diagrams, or create full journals. The Premium Pen is included, and never needs charging – so it's always ready when inspiration hits. Its 10.2-inch 300 ppi Paperwhite display is the largest on any Kindle, offering a natural paper-like feel with adjustable warm lighting and glare-free clarity. It's perfect for both reading and writing – and the AI-powered summarisation feature adds a clever touch, especially if you're using it for meetings or study notes. You can also mark up PDFs, review documents, and convert handwritten notes into text with ease – making this an exceptional tool for both work and leisure. And thanks to USB-C charging and Amazon's usual long-lasting battery, you'll get months of reading and weeks of writing between charges. This version includes 32GB storage and comes with the Premium Pen, so it's ideal for those who plan to use the full writing functionality. Now's your chance to upgrade before this limited-time offer disappears. If you're considering alternatives, the reMarkable 2 offers a sleek, minimalist e-ink writing experience that's more notebook than reader. You can explore it here. 🔥 Free Samsung tablet? Don't miss this Sky Mobile Galaxy S25 deal Snap up the brand-new Samsung Galaxy S25 5G and Sky Mobile will throw in a Galaxy Tab A9+ worth £259 – absolutely free! This offer - which we wrote about in detail here - runs until 26 June 2025, but once it's gone, it's gone. You'll get Samsung's most powerful phone yet – built for gaming, streaming and multitasking – from just £30 a month with zero upfront cost.
Scotsman
5 days ago
- Business
- Scotsman
Kindle Scribe drops to £279.99 in rare Amazon deal
The Kindle Scribe combines distraction-free reading with powerful digital writing tools | Amazon This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission on items purchased through this article, but that does not affect our editorial judgement. Amazon has slashed £100 off the Kindle Scribe – its powerful digital notebook with Premium Pen, now down to just £279.99 for a limited time. Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... If you're thinking of upgrading your holiday reading setup, now's the time – because the Kindle Scribe has just dropped to £279.99 on Amazon, matching its best-ever price and saving you £100 off the usual £379.99. This isn't the first time the Scribe has been reduced to this level, but these deals rarely stick around – they tend to last just a few days at a time. And with summer travel on the horizon, it's the ideal moment to snap one up if you want to streamline your reading, note-taking, and document-marking while on the move. Unlike any other Kindle, the Scribe doubles as a digital notebook, letting you scribble thoughts directly onto the page, annotate documents, sketch diagrams, or create full journals. The Premium Pen is included, and never needs charging – so it's always ready when inspiration hits. Its 10.2-inch 300 ppi Paperwhite display is the largest on any Kindle, offering a natural paper-like feel with adjustable warm lighting and glare-free clarity. It's perfect for both reading and writing – and the AI-powered summarisation feature adds a clever touch, especially if you're using it for meetings or study notes. You can also mark up PDFs, review documents, and convert handwritten notes into text with ease – making this an exceptional tool for both work and leisure. And thanks to USB-C charging and Amazon's usual long-lasting battery, you'll get months of reading and weeks of writing between charges. This version includes 32GB storage and comes with the Premium Pen, so it's ideal for those who plan to use the full writing functionality. Now's your chance to upgrade before this limited-time offer disappears. If you're considering alternatives, the reMarkable 2 offers a sleek, minimalist e-ink writing experience that's more notebook than reader. You can explore it here. 🔥 Free Samsung tablet? Don't miss this Sky Mobile Galaxy S25 deal
Dublin Live
6 days ago
- Business
- Dublin Live
Huge €120 incentive as Amazon offers ultimate Kindle upgrade
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info If you're an avid reader who devours a good number of books each month, or finds it challenging to pack all your volumes when jetting off on holiday, a Kindle might be on your radar. Amazon's popular e-readers are a fantastic way to tote around hundreds or even thousands of books in your bag, ensuring you always have something to read. Currently, Amazon has cut the price of one of its most proficient Kindles. If you reckon you'd appreciate the largest screen on a Kindle, this could be the deal for you. The 2022 Kindle Scribe is now down to €274, a €100 reduction from the usual €394 RRP. Although Amazon launched a second version of the Scribe in 2024, they are functionally identical, and the 2022 model has received all the latest software updates that the newer model gets. The newer version is currently priced at least €452, so opting for the 2022 version at €274 saves you a whopping €178 on the ultimate Kindle experience. Having extensively used the 2022 Kindle Scribe, I can attest that it's a pleasure to read on, thanks to its 10.2-inch display - yes, it's large, but it allows more text on a page, and even when you enlarge the text size, there are still several words on a line, unlike on smaller screen Kindles, reports the Express. The screen boasts the same pixel density as smaller Kindles, the frontlight is excellent making reading in the dark effortless, and the battery can last for weeks, if not months. The Scribe comes equipped with Amazon's Basic Pen, which never requires charging, allowing you to write on this Kindle, be it for making notes in e-books or creating blank notebooks. This means you can carry your entire library of books and use it as a notebook for personal or work jottings. One minor gripe is that unlike rival Kobo e-readers, you can't directly write onto e-book pages as you would in a physical book. Instead, you have the option to insert boxes on the page to jot down notes, which the text then wraps around. While I find this slightly cumbersome, it's better than not having the feature at all. Personally, I prefer to utilise the large screen for reading and primarily use the Scribe as a notebook. New AI features available via a free software update allow the Scribe to summarise your notes. This proves useful after lengthy meetings, as it can convert your handwritten notes into typed bullet points or sentences. You can also access your notebooks and any in-book annotations in the Kindle app for iPhone or Android, making the Scribe an excellent choice if you want all your data synchronised across devices. Join our Dublin Live breaking news service on WhatsApp. Click this link to receive your daily dose of Dublin Live content. We also treat our community members to special offers, promotions, and adverts from us and our partners. If you don't like our community, you can check out any time you like. If you're curious, you can read our Privacy Notice. For all the latest news from Dublin and surrounding areas visit our homepage.
The Advertiser
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Advertiser
Beyoncé's mum offers rare insights into famous family
New books sampled this week include a memoir by Beyoncé's mum and He Would Never, the new novel by Holly Wainwright. Tina Knowles. Hachette. $34.99. Tina Knowles is Beyoncé's mum. In this memoir, the fashion designer recounts the family history and upbringing of the pop music megastar (and her singer sister Solange). Knowles offers rare insights into her famously private daughter's early life of school shyness and the discovery of her talent. She also writes about raising "bonus" daughter Kelly Rowland, as she and the other members of chart-topping '90s girl group Destiny's Child juggled fame and stardom at a young age. Billed as a celebration of "the world-changing power of black motherhood", the book has attracted praise from the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. Raina MacIntyre. NewSouth Books. $34.99. "If there was a vaccine against heart attacks, would you take it?" asks world-leading epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre, before explaining that the answer is right in front of us. Vaccines that will help reduce the chances of cardiac issues already exist. Flu, shingles and (surprise!) COVID shots are among them. MacIntyre explains how vaccines changed the world, and how ignorance and complacency threaten to change it back. Among the important messages: COVID isn't over. If we don't act it will be with us for decades. (If you can't be bothered getting a flu jab, maybe start with the chapter on influenza.) Damon Young. Scribe. $32.99. Just how much is there to consider, analyse and write about the simple gesture involved in asking for a restaurant bill? Quite a lot, as it turns out, and it is fascinating. You know the signal: you pretend to hold a pen and twirl your wrist in the waiter's direction. What then, can be said about the "shush" gesture, or a shrug, or the "unsanitary and unnecessary ritual of the handshake" (ick warning)? Philosopher Damon Young goes deep into 13 gestures, drawing from Degas to Dr Who. Yes, it is about gestures, but this book is really about much more. Phil Craig. Hodder & Stoughton. $34.99. The final book in Phil Craig's Finest Hour trilogy examines how the closing chapters of World War II played out for Britain and its empire. In Europe, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was being liberated. In India, nationalists faced a choice between the Raj and the Axis. In Borneo, Australian soldiers are dropped behind enemy lines, but sadly not to rescue Australian prisoners from the infamous Sandakan POW camp. Perhaps most astonishingly, in Vietnam, where Ho Chi Minh was trying to curry favour with the US, the British used freed Japanese prisoners to attack his army and return Saigon to French control. Gareth Ward & Louise Ward. Penguin. $34.99. In 2013, six years after relocating to Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, former British police officers Gareth and Louise Ward bought a local bookshop that was closing down. They went against everyone's advice, including the shop's owner, but built the business back and opened a second store. The heroes of their Bookshop Detectives cosy crime mysteries are the husband-and-wife owners of the Sherlock Tomes bookshop in a tiny NZ town. The Wards follow their 2024 debut, Dead Girl Gone, with Tea and Cake and Death, in which book-selling sleuths Garth and Eloise Sherlock investigate deadly poisonings ahead of their annual Battle of the Book Clubs fundraiser. Cassie Hamer. HarperCollins. $14.99. For her fourth suburban noir since her 2020 debut After The Party, Sydney author Cassie Hamer adds misery, mystery and mayhem to the usual festering family angst of Christmas as Maz Antonio hosts her first big family gathering after two years in jail. To atone for her terrible mistakes and show their guests she can maintain her sobriety, Maz wants the lunch to be perfect for her husband and children. But who is the man impulsively invited along by her mum? Is he really a stranger or is he connected to the past Maz is so desperate to put behind her? Jacqueline Maley. 4th Estate. $34.99. The second novel by Nine newspapers columnist Jacqueline Maley (after 2021's The Truth About Her) follows half-sisters and their unreliable mother as they reconcile with the family ties that bind them and the hidden trauma that threatens to tear them apart. Lara is a model living carefree in France. Matilda is a chef in a fancy Sydney restaurant who prefers her life solitary and self-contained. Lara is 10 years younger than Matilda, but they are close - until a visit home by Lara and the return of her long-absent, erratic father trying to make amends for his past misdeeds, blows up Matilda's buttoned-down life. Holly Wainwright. Pan MacMillan. $34.99. The fifth novel by Mamamia podcaster Holly Wainwright is inspired by her family's long-standing annual camping holidays with a bunch of other families, and the diverse perspectives and strong bonds of friendship shared by the women. For her fiction, the NSW South Coast-based author follows five women as they gather with their families for their traditional summer camping holiday at Green River. They all met at a mother's group 14 years earlier. Liss and Lachy Short are still the gang's golden couple. But is Liss prepared to listen to her second family of truth-tellers about the kind of toxic man her husband really is? Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest book reviews and articles with ease. New books sampled this week include a memoir by Beyoncé's mum and He Would Never, the new novel by Holly Wainwright. Tina Knowles. Hachette. $34.99. Tina Knowles is Beyoncé's mum. In this memoir, the fashion designer recounts the family history and upbringing of the pop music megastar (and her singer sister Solange). Knowles offers rare insights into her famously private daughter's early life of school shyness and the discovery of her talent. She also writes about raising "bonus" daughter Kelly Rowland, as she and the other members of chart-topping '90s girl group Destiny's Child juggled fame and stardom at a young age. Billed as a celebration of "the world-changing power of black motherhood", the book has attracted praise from the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. Raina MacIntyre. NewSouth Books. $34.99. "If there was a vaccine against heart attacks, would you take it?" asks world-leading epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre, before explaining that the answer is right in front of us. Vaccines that will help reduce the chances of cardiac issues already exist. Flu, shingles and (surprise!) COVID shots are among them. MacIntyre explains how vaccines changed the world, and how ignorance and complacency threaten to change it back. Among the important messages: COVID isn't over. If we don't act it will be with us for decades. (If you can't be bothered getting a flu jab, maybe start with the chapter on influenza.) Damon Young. Scribe. $32.99. Just how much is there to consider, analyse and write about the simple gesture involved in asking for a restaurant bill? Quite a lot, as it turns out, and it is fascinating. You know the signal: you pretend to hold a pen and twirl your wrist in the waiter's direction. What then, can be said about the "shush" gesture, or a shrug, or the "unsanitary and unnecessary ritual of the handshake" (ick warning)? Philosopher Damon Young goes deep into 13 gestures, drawing from Degas to Dr Who. Yes, it is about gestures, but this book is really about much more. Phil Craig. Hodder & Stoughton. $34.99. The final book in Phil Craig's Finest Hour trilogy examines how the closing chapters of World War II played out for Britain and its empire. In Europe, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was being liberated. In India, nationalists faced a choice between the Raj and the Axis. In Borneo, Australian soldiers are dropped behind enemy lines, but sadly not to rescue Australian prisoners from the infamous Sandakan POW camp. Perhaps most astonishingly, in Vietnam, where Ho Chi Minh was trying to curry favour with the US, the British used freed Japanese prisoners to attack his army and return Saigon to French control. Gareth Ward & Louise Ward. Penguin. $34.99. In 2013, six years after relocating to Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, former British police officers Gareth and Louise Ward bought a local bookshop that was closing down. They went against everyone's advice, including the shop's owner, but built the business back and opened a second store. The heroes of their Bookshop Detectives cosy crime mysteries are the husband-and-wife owners of the Sherlock Tomes bookshop in a tiny NZ town. The Wards follow their 2024 debut, Dead Girl Gone, with Tea and Cake and Death, in which book-selling sleuths Garth and Eloise Sherlock investigate deadly poisonings ahead of their annual Battle of the Book Clubs fundraiser. Cassie Hamer. HarperCollins. $14.99. For her fourth suburban noir since her 2020 debut After The Party, Sydney author Cassie Hamer adds misery, mystery and mayhem to the usual festering family angst of Christmas as Maz Antonio hosts her first big family gathering after two years in jail. To atone for her terrible mistakes and show their guests she can maintain her sobriety, Maz wants the lunch to be perfect for her husband and children. But who is the man impulsively invited along by her mum? Is he really a stranger or is he connected to the past Maz is so desperate to put behind her? Jacqueline Maley. 4th Estate. $34.99. The second novel by Nine newspapers columnist Jacqueline Maley (after 2021's The Truth About Her) follows half-sisters and their unreliable mother as they reconcile with the family ties that bind them and the hidden trauma that threatens to tear them apart. Lara is a model living carefree in France. Matilda is a chef in a fancy Sydney restaurant who prefers her life solitary and self-contained. Lara is 10 years younger than Matilda, but they are close - until a visit home by Lara and the return of her long-absent, erratic father trying to make amends for his past misdeeds, blows up Matilda's buttoned-down life. Holly Wainwright. Pan MacMillan. $34.99. The fifth novel by Mamamia podcaster Holly Wainwright is inspired by her family's long-standing annual camping holidays with a bunch of other families, and the diverse perspectives and strong bonds of friendship shared by the women. For her fiction, the NSW South Coast-based author follows five women as they gather with their families for their traditional summer camping holiday at Green River. They all met at a mother's group 14 years earlier. Liss and Lachy Short are still the gang's golden couple. But is Liss prepared to listen to her second family of truth-tellers about the kind of toxic man her husband really is? Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest book reviews and articles with ease. New books sampled this week include a memoir by Beyoncé's mum and He Would Never, the new novel by Holly Wainwright. Tina Knowles. Hachette. $34.99. Tina Knowles is Beyoncé's mum. In this memoir, the fashion designer recounts the family history and upbringing of the pop music megastar (and her singer sister Solange). Knowles offers rare insights into her famously private daughter's early life of school shyness and the discovery of her talent. She also writes about raising "bonus" daughter Kelly Rowland, as she and the other members of chart-topping '90s girl group Destiny's Child juggled fame and stardom at a young age. Billed as a celebration of "the world-changing power of black motherhood", the book has attracted praise from the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. Raina MacIntyre. NewSouth Books. $34.99. "If there was a vaccine against heart attacks, would you take it?" asks world-leading epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre, before explaining that the answer is right in front of us. Vaccines that will help reduce the chances of cardiac issues already exist. Flu, shingles and (surprise!) COVID shots are among them. MacIntyre explains how vaccines changed the world, and how ignorance and complacency threaten to change it back. Among the important messages: COVID isn't over. If we don't act it will be with us for decades. (If you can't be bothered getting a flu jab, maybe start with the chapter on influenza.) Damon Young. Scribe. $32.99. Just how much is there to consider, analyse and write about the simple gesture involved in asking for a restaurant bill? Quite a lot, as it turns out, and it is fascinating. You know the signal: you pretend to hold a pen and twirl your wrist in the waiter's direction. What then, can be said about the "shush" gesture, or a shrug, or the "unsanitary and unnecessary ritual of the handshake" (ick warning)? Philosopher Damon Young goes deep into 13 gestures, drawing from Degas to Dr Who. Yes, it is about gestures, but this book is really about much more. Phil Craig. Hodder & Stoughton. $34.99. The final book in Phil Craig's Finest Hour trilogy examines how the closing chapters of World War II played out for Britain and its empire. In Europe, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was being liberated. In India, nationalists faced a choice between the Raj and the Axis. In Borneo, Australian soldiers are dropped behind enemy lines, but sadly not to rescue Australian prisoners from the infamous Sandakan POW camp. Perhaps most astonishingly, in Vietnam, where Ho Chi Minh was trying to curry favour with the US, the British used freed Japanese prisoners to attack his army and return Saigon to French control. Gareth Ward & Louise Ward. Penguin. $34.99. In 2013, six years after relocating to Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, former British police officers Gareth and Louise Ward bought a local bookshop that was closing down. They went against everyone's advice, including the shop's owner, but built the business back and opened a second store. The heroes of their Bookshop Detectives cosy crime mysteries are the husband-and-wife owners of the Sherlock Tomes bookshop in a tiny NZ town. The Wards follow their 2024 debut, Dead Girl Gone, with Tea and Cake and Death, in which book-selling sleuths Garth and Eloise Sherlock investigate deadly poisonings ahead of their annual Battle of the Book Clubs fundraiser. Cassie Hamer. HarperCollins. $14.99. For her fourth suburban noir since her 2020 debut After The Party, Sydney author Cassie Hamer adds misery, mystery and mayhem to the usual festering family angst of Christmas as Maz Antonio hosts her first big family gathering after two years in jail. To atone for her terrible mistakes and show their guests she can maintain her sobriety, Maz wants the lunch to be perfect for her husband and children. But who is the man impulsively invited along by her mum? Is he really a stranger or is he connected to the past Maz is so desperate to put behind her? Jacqueline Maley. 4th Estate. $34.99. The second novel by Nine newspapers columnist Jacqueline Maley (after 2021's The Truth About Her) follows half-sisters and their unreliable mother as they reconcile with the family ties that bind them and the hidden trauma that threatens to tear them apart. Lara is a model living carefree in France. Matilda is a chef in a fancy Sydney restaurant who prefers her life solitary and self-contained. Lara is 10 years younger than Matilda, but they are close - until a visit home by Lara and the return of her long-absent, erratic father trying to make amends for his past misdeeds, blows up Matilda's buttoned-down life. Holly Wainwright. Pan MacMillan. $34.99. The fifth novel by Mamamia podcaster Holly Wainwright is inspired by her family's long-standing annual camping holidays with a bunch of other families, and the diverse perspectives and strong bonds of friendship shared by the women. For her fiction, the NSW South Coast-based author follows five women as they gather with their families for their traditional summer camping holiday at Green River. They all met at a mother's group 14 years earlier. Liss and Lachy Short are still the gang's golden couple. But is Liss prepared to listen to her second family of truth-tellers about the kind of toxic man her husband really is? Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest book reviews and articles with ease. New books sampled this week include a memoir by Beyoncé's mum and He Would Never, the new novel by Holly Wainwright. Tina Knowles. Hachette. $34.99. Tina Knowles is Beyoncé's mum. In this memoir, the fashion designer recounts the family history and upbringing of the pop music megastar (and her singer sister Solange). Knowles offers rare insights into her famously private daughter's early life of school shyness and the discovery of her talent. She also writes about raising "bonus" daughter Kelly Rowland, as she and the other members of chart-topping '90s girl group Destiny's Child juggled fame and stardom at a young age. Billed as a celebration of "the world-changing power of black motherhood", the book has attracted praise from the likes of Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama. Raina MacIntyre. NewSouth Books. $34.99. "If there was a vaccine against heart attacks, would you take it?" asks world-leading epidemiologist Raina MacIntyre, before explaining that the answer is right in front of us. Vaccines that will help reduce the chances of cardiac issues already exist. Flu, shingles and (surprise!) COVID shots are among them. MacIntyre explains how vaccines changed the world, and how ignorance and complacency threaten to change it back. Among the important messages: COVID isn't over. If we don't act it will be with us for decades. (If you can't be bothered getting a flu jab, maybe start with the chapter on influenza.) Damon Young. Scribe. $32.99. Just how much is there to consider, analyse and write about the simple gesture involved in asking for a restaurant bill? Quite a lot, as it turns out, and it is fascinating. You know the signal: you pretend to hold a pen and twirl your wrist in the waiter's direction. What then, can be said about the "shush" gesture, or a shrug, or the "unsanitary and unnecessary ritual of the handshake" (ick warning)? Philosopher Damon Young goes deep into 13 gestures, drawing from Degas to Dr Who. Yes, it is about gestures, but this book is really about much more. Phil Craig. Hodder & Stoughton. $34.99. The final book in Phil Craig's Finest Hour trilogy examines how the closing chapters of World War II played out for Britain and its empire. In Europe, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was being liberated. In India, nationalists faced a choice between the Raj and the Axis. In Borneo, Australian soldiers are dropped behind enemy lines, but sadly not to rescue Australian prisoners from the infamous Sandakan POW camp. Perhaps most astonishingly, in Vietnam, where Ho Chi Minh was trying to curry favour with the US, the British used freed Japanese prisoners to attack his army and return Saigon to French control. Gareth Ward & Louise Ward. Penguin. $34.99. In 2013, six years after relocating to Hawke's Bay, New Zealand, former British police officers Gareth and Louise Ward bought a local bookshop that was closing down. They went against everyone's advice, including the shop's owner, but built the business back and opened a second store. The heroes of their Bookshop Detectives cosy crime mysteries are the husband-and-wife owners of the Sherlock Tomes bookshop in a tiny NZ town. The Wards follow their 2024 debut, Dead Girl Gone, with Tea and Cake and Death, in which book-selling sleuths Garth and Eloise Sherlock investigate deadly poisonings ahead of their annual Battle of the Book Clubs fundraiser. Cassie Hamer. HarperCollins. $14.99. For her fourth suburban noir since her 2020 debut After The Party, Sydney author Cassie Hamer adds misery, mystery and mayhem to the usual festering family angst of Christmas as Maz Antonio hosts her first big family gathering after two years in jail. To atone for her terrible mistakes and show their guests she can maintain her sobriety, Maz wants the lunch to be perfect for her husband and children. But who is the man impulsively invited along by her mum? Is he really a stranger or is he connected to the past Maz is so desperate to put behind her? Jacqueline Maley. 4th Estate. $34.99. The second novel by Nine newspapers columnist Jacqueline Maley (after 2021's The Truth About Her) follows half-sisters and their unreliable mother as they reconcile with the family ties that bind them and the hidden trauma that threatens to tear them apart. Lara is a model living carefree in France. Matilda is a chef in a fancy Sydney restaurant who prefers her life solitary and self-contained. Lara is 10 years younger than Matilda, but they are close - until a visit home by Lara and the return of her long-absent, erratic father trying to make amends for his past misdeeds, blows up Matilda's buttoned-down life. Holly Wainwright. Pan MacMillan. $34.99. The fifth novel by Mamamia podcaster Holly Wainwright is inspired by her family's long-standing annual camping holidays with a bunch of other families, and the diverse perspectives and strong bonds of friendship shared by the women. For her fiction, the NSW South Coast-based author follows five women as they gather with their families for their traditional summer camping holiday at Green River. They all met at a mother's group 14 years earlier. Liss and Lachy Short are still the gang's golden couple. But is Liss prepared to listen to her second family of truth-tellers about the kind of toxic man her husband really is? Love books? Us too! Looking for more reads and recommendations? Browse our books page and bookmark the page so you can find our latest book reviews and articles with ease.
ABC News
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Award-winning Samoan artist Ladi6 unpacks life leading up to her first album since her mother's passing
She's sound-tracked various moments in our lives over the decades, and now with a brand new album on the horizon, Ladi6 is still bringing the alofa through her music. Awards and accolades aside, there was much to unpack with the legendary Samoan artist, mother, and student counsellor who is now on the cusp of releasing her fifth album, Le Vā. From hilarious high school memories with her cousin, Scribe, to the conflicting feelings she felt after being named a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, Ladi6 gets nostalgic with Nesia Daily before discussing what this new record tells us about the era she finds herself in today.
