Inspirational

Many of us enjoy pottering in the kitchen, but few take that passion for cooking a step further. Alexia Santamaria meets three women who are making a business out of their love of food.

Tui McBeath was born in Invercargill in 1948. A former panellist on the TV show Beauty and the Beast, she talked to Hannah Sperber while in the end stages of motor neurone disease and died, days later, in Christchurch, on April 5.

The self-assurance and style of today’s older women is an inspiration for us all, says Jo Seagar.

This memoir by Helen Macdonald tells of her obsession first, then her experience raising 10-week-old Goshawk, Mabel.

Lindsay Hawdon's novel recounts the tragedy of the gypsy holocaust. Its central character, Jakob, recalls his memories and his struggle to find hope in a world drained of colour.

She is the personification of positivity and uses her holistic approach to help others, but life has not always been so smooth for Susie Turner.

Antonia Prebble returns to our screens on TV3’s Outrageous Fortune prequel, Westside.

Melissa McCarthy reveals the moment she came face-to-face with a harsh critic

Broadcaster and mum-of-three Jude Dobson, 48, is an ambassador for The Breast Cancer Foundation’s May Pink Ribbon Breakfast month.

A match made in Middlemarch.