At the Sydney launch of Lee Child's latest Jack Reacher novel, Past Tense, Reader's Digest Senior Editor Kathy Buchanan chatted with the best-selling author about his biggest challenges and influences, the most surprising and unusual celebrity fans he's met, why women are better writers than men and a whole host of other topics.
Books in which man meets woman, man woos woman (or woman woos man), and man and woman live happily ever after are a dime a dozen.
Enjoyable, for sure, but not what you'd call memorable.
So, the editors at Reader's Digest Select Editions have come up with a list of 10 of the best romance novels that tell favourite, and timeless, love stories, each of which goes above and beyond basic romance.
It’s not about adding years to your life but adding life to your years. So how can you feel – and look – younger at any age? Often it starts with a single word…
Not long after assuming power, Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party-led government began implementing the "New Southward Policy," which has sought to fill the gap left by the reduction in Chinese students attending university in Taiwan.
Pinned beneath a three-tonne excavator that plunged him into a muddy dam, Daniel Miller could keep his eyes and nose above water only by straining to his utmost. With help at least six hours away, he began the hardest battle of his life.
