Get A Grip: Kaz Cooke

Kaz Cooke's observations are timeless, timely reflections on almost everything important, including NASA, interior design pornography, collective nouns, lerv, weirdos and how to find your inner Nanna. She has a weakness for Scottish accents, an undying hatred of cats, a devastating gift for one-liners and an obsession with the Miss Universe contest (because, as its name suggests, people from other planets may enter...). Fierce, funny, frank, intelligent and informative reading; an essential companion to life in the nineties (and may even explain the nineties!) and everything you need to know about thigh boots, political correctness, food fads, foreign policy and the sex life of clams. Cooke started as a cadet journalist at The Age in 1981, a month after her 18th birthday, later ceoming editor of the Age's Friday 'Entertainment Guide' section. Her articles appeared in the 1980s in Dolly, The Australian Women’s Weekly and Cleo. She also wrote an etiquette column for The Age as well as numerous hilarious books about modern life.