A Christmas Treat
Christmas is approaching fast and all the newspapers and magazines we read are publishing their Best Books of 2022. Whether the lists have come from sports people, politicians, other journalists…
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Annual Book Week Dinner
Ever wondered how Rapunzel felt about having to deal with all that hair? As writers we need to know these things. We need to imagine how our characters feel, what…
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A Positive of European Settlement
During the ceremony to mark the 2021 Premier’s Book Awards on Friday 17th June, much was made of the spectacular success of Magabala Books. And rightly so! From the first stirrings…
Keep readingNot Fitting the Boxes: When I reached the age at which I had to fill out forms for myself, I always wondered why I never seemed to fit the boxes.…
Keep readingThe Terrible Shock
Last Thursday I had the first of two cataract operations. This one was on my right eye. Since I had been the chauffer for both my parents when they had…
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Experiment
This is our experimental post for today. I don’t know what I’m doing yet, but I’ll get there.
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Little Street Library Mysteries?
For some time now I have been intrigued by these colourful, house-shaped boxes that are popping up on people’s fences, or on sturdy posts outside their houses. These mini-houses have…
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After the Long Dark Night of covid-19
After months of lockdown-type restrictions, the presentation of prizes, last Friday evening, to winners of the 2020 West Australian Premier’s Awards, was a rare chance for the writing and Illustrating…
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Old Heads on Young Shoulders
It is frightening to think how badly mislead we could end up being if we were to stay at home in our cocoons for too long and believe only what…
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Need a Lager-phone?
How often in your life have you needed a lager-phone? When I was planning the launch of Goldfields Girl, back in March before the world went into lockdown, I thought about…
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That Goldfields Life
During the interactive part of my author talk to the Booragoon Rotary Club last week, I became conscious of just how many people in Western Australia have a personal connection…
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Novels Do Not Lie
At the beginning of Kate Grenville’s new book, A Room Made of Leaves, the long awaited follow-up to The Secret River, the editor explains that ‘this book consists of recently rediscovered notes…
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