Time lays out unexpected juxtapositions. I must have met Robyn when I was five or six. Fifty years ago. She was the friend of the older sister of a friend […]
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The Kinck family murder case in France in 1869 is often cited as being crucial to the development of tabloid journalism. The discovery of Hortense Kinck and five of her […]
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Meet My Main Character Blog Hop: Monsieur Antoine Claude
The lovely Elisabeth Storrs has tagged me in a blog hop of main characters. Elisabeth writes pithy novels of Ancient Rome, a subject I knew little of before I read […]
Continue reading »The Lush Carpet of Life
There are times when an author’s heart jumps. It might be a bad review, or finding another author who has written something similar, a response from an agent or publisher. […]
Continue reading »Singing in to Narrative
In 1991, I had the extra good fortune to live for a year in Italy. How I ever organised a whole year off is beyond me but during that year […]
Continue reading »The Life of Pi – Lost or Found in Translation?
As they are very different media, adaptation from novel to film is often fitting a square peg to a round hole. But there’s also a chance to review the novel […]
Continue reading »The Next Big Things…
The idea of this is that a writer puts up a post on his or her own blog answering ten questions about his/her work in progress, and then “tags” three […]
Continue reading »Cogli la prima fragola
In July we planted different varieties of strawberries, in large pots where each day the sun inched back from winter. We peppered the soil with chook manure and marinated it […]
Continue reading »So it sits upon my desk
So it sits upon my desk, a pile of paper three hundred pages high. How many years has it taken? It all started in 2001 on a trip to Paris. […]
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