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This was another score from The Book Grocer. Also $6.00. Like Holloway, it’s a hard cover,  high quality publication from an English imprint (Weidenfeld and Nicholson) – and also right up my alley. While the sub-title does give the reader … Continue reading →

I bought this beautiful book at The Book Grocer for $6.00 (!!!!) It’s a Faber and Faber hard-cover, with a lovely stiff paper dust jacket, illustrated end-papers and black and white illustrations by Stanley Donwood and beautiful text – prose … Continue reading →

I have had an excellent weekend. A really, really excellent weekend. Perhaps it was the sunshine. The birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees are all singing as one with The Beatles – ‘Here comes the sun…’ … Continue reading →

I’ve just finished Karen Joy Fowler’s Booker short-listed We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, and from the outset I knew. It was right there on the cover. “One of the best twists in years.” So what is this twist? I … Continue reading →

  I was recently asked to help judge a fiction prize at the junior campus of my local high school. Sixteen students from years 7, 8 and 9 submitted pieces ranging from half to eleven pages. The winner and runner-up … Continue reading →

Revising and editing at the present. I work at the Bookroom 2 days a week, and I’m aiming  to work on my novel 4 days a week – which leaves me one day off. Today was the day, and my … Continue reading →

I’m in love with this book and I haven’t finished it yet. I’m deliberately not finishing it because I love it so much. Does that make sense? Probably not! I have only fifty pages to go. Perhaps tonight, instead of … Continue reading →

If you only know Morris Gleitzman’s for his funny books – like Blabber Mouth, Misery Guts, Toad Rage and so on – you will maybe be surprised by this series. Soon is the fifth book (the others are Once, Then, … Continue reading →

My sessions today at Text Marks the Spot, the Bendigo Writer’s Festival Schools event, were great fun. Here’s my list of recommended books – starting, of course, with my own!                     … Continue reading →