Style from the Suburban Intellect

I have a soft spot for North Stradbroke Island. All through Primary School, it was where we went for our family beach holidays and I h...

A book for the children: an alphabet of terrible advice . Another reason to go to Paris - like you needed one. An art installation of an i...

Today my fringe is long and sort of voluminous. I can almost kid myself it's a bit like Ariel's from The Little Mermaid. Which...

I was a big reader as a child – I still am, in fact – and Roald Dahl was and remains one of my favourite childhood authors. His b...

Yesterday on Twitter the Sydney Writers Centre posed the question: What were 5 books you grew up with? What 5 books – or series – defined y...

The much talked-about, much-anticipated, much-discussed The Great Gatsby has almost arrived. The official trailer has just been released ...

An age ago I found this listing on So Bad So Good: 10 things the kids of today will never experience and to be truthful, it got me all mist...

Last night I went with a couple of friends to see the new Muppets movie. I had high expectations of this movie and I'm sorry to say they...

A couple of weeks ago I found this article; 11 silly things you probably believed as a kid . Some of the ones they list I really did believe...

In the last month I have watched 2 movies from my childhood that were every bit as good as I remember them. The first was Babe. When I firs...