One knows not to expect a light and fluffy read when picking up a book titled The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.  Readers will inevitably be left feeling intense sadness, yet will be rewarded with experiencing a story that is poignant and superbly written. The life of the author was as remarkable as the...

Take classic English literature and one of Australia’s most famous modern-day romance novelists, and the result is The Independence of Miss Mary Bennet. This story is a sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Its author is Colleen McCullough of The Thorn Birds fame. Naturally Pride and Prejudice...

The critically acclaimed book by Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper will make its movie premiere on Aussie screens on 30 July 2009. Although the long awaited movie has fans excited and eager for its release, the movie release is not the main reason Picoult fans are reeling – Hollywood script writers...

Trick or Treat by Kerry Greenwood is the kind of book you take on a holiday or indulge in on a “doona day” (not that we wish to encourage this sort of behaviour!). It contains classical ingredients found in “chick-lit”, such as a likeable female lead character, an adorable boyfriend, a devious...

Those who have never heard of Twilight – have you been living under a rock? From copies of the novel seen in the hands of engrossed commuters on their way to work, to gossip columns containing the latest antics of actors in the movie adaptation, Twilight has become an international phenomenon. Twilight...

India is a nation making headlines. Slumdog Millionaire scooped up eight Academy Awards recently, an achievement celebrated across many corners of the globe. Sadly, terrorist attacks in Mumbai, news of unfathomable horror, cast a disturbing shadow on India only months before. One of the targets in the...

Welcome to our first book review at A Pampered Life! We’ll be posting a book review every month so make sure you keep coming back to find which tome we’ve delved into lately. The first book on our list is He’s Just Not That into You. It was just released as a movie, but I’m the...