Style Notes by Maggie Alderson

Style Notes

Author: Maggie Alderson

MAGGIE ALDERSON, novelist, philosopher of fashion and arbiter of style, brings us a new collection of her much-loved Style Notes column.

Find out why men hate shopping and why women love wearing clothes men hate. Share the frustration of the search for the perfect Walkable Heeled Shoe and consider whether a size 'large' item of clothing is acceptable as a gift.

Learn why it's good if your child is too embarrassed to be seen with you, and how to harness your life force through the power of yoga – and liberally applied make-up.

Discover some key terms for the fashion addicted – Show Crow, Bag Hag and Fleabag – and work out where you fit on the spectrum.

Warm, witty and wise, Style Notes is the ultimate insider's guide – a knowledgeable but not-too-serious take on the wonders and weirdness of the world of fashion, style and life beyond.

Everything Changes But You

By Maggie Alderson

Published: 24/10/2012

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9781921518140

RRP: $29.99

Evangeline, The Wish Keeper's Helper

By Maggie Alderson

Evangeline the toy elephant lies under the bed all day, waiting and waiting for something to happen. If only she could be useful somewhere . . . Will her wish be granted?

Published: 03/10/2011

Format: Hardback

ISBN: 9780670075355

RRP: $19.95

Evangeline Wish Keeper's Helper

By Maggie Alderson

Evangeline the toy elephant lies under the bed all day, waiting and waiting for something to happen. If only she could be useful somewhere . . . Will her wish be granted?

Published: 28/09/2011

Format: Digital

ISBN: 9781742533964

Mad About the Boy

By Maggie Alderson

Of all the nightmare options that passed through Antonia Heaveringham's head when her husband Hugo uttered the words, 'I've got something to tell you . . .', a coming out speech never figured.

Published: 01/11/2002

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143000020

RRP: $19.95

Handbags and Gladrags

By Maggie Alderson

Fashion stylist Emily Pointer is a natural blonde, a tall size 10, travels the world for work and gets 30 per cent discount at Prada. As far as she's concerned, life is perfect.

So surely a night of wild sex with a hunky Australian photographer will be just another fabulous experience to add to the package? Instead, Emily starts to discover that life can be messy – and the designer clothes in...

Fashion stylist Emily Pointer is a natural blonde, a tall size 10, travels the world for work and gets 30 per cent discount at Prada. As far as she's concerned, life is perfect.

So surely a night of wild...

Published: 21/11/2005

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143003687

RRP: $19.95

Cents and Sensibility

By Maggie Alderson

Stella Fain has a rule for men she likes: Make them wait . . . But the gorgeous Jay proves an exception to the rule when he bowls Stella off her Prada wedges at a press junket on the Cote d'Azur.

He might seem to have everything going for him, but Stella is about to realise that while jetset lifestyles can be fabulous, her career as a journalist isn't something she wants to jeopardise for any man...

Stella Fain has a rule for men she likes: Make them wait . . . But the gorgeous Jay proves an exception to the rule when he bowls Stella off her Prada wedges at a press junket on the Cote d'Azur.

He might...

Published: 04/06/2007

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143006060

RRP: $19.95

How to Break Your Own Heart

By Maggie Alderson

Amelia Bradlow seems to have everything she needs to be happy – a handsome husband, a beautiful home, money, good looks and a glamour job. Everything, that is, except the thing she wants most – a baby.

Ed, her husband, is funny, affectionate and sophisticated by simply not interested in parenthood. He likes his life neat and tidy. And he likes having a wife who attends...

Amelia Bradlow seems to have everything she needs to be happy – a handsome husband, a beautiful home, money, good looks and a glamour job. Everything, that is, except the thing she wants...

Published: 31/08/2009

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143009658

RRP: $19.95

Shall We Dance?

By Maggie Alderson

Loulou Landers, London's undisputed Queen of Vintage Fashion, meets a man on the eve of her dreaded forty-ninth birthday. Unfortunately, he's barely half her age, and Loulou's just not ready to 'go cougar'.

Published: 29/08/2011

Format: Paperback

ISBN: 9780143205609

RRP: $19.95