As part of the Melbourne Wheeler Centre’s “On the Road” program, author Tony Birch was in Wangaratta last Wednesday. Birch’s novel Blood was nominated for this year’s Miles Franklin award. I went and saw him talk primarily because he had
Divine News I have a new article on the Divine website, a review of Me and Her, a memoir by Karen Tyrrell. It is about her life with Bipolar Disorder. The review is very different from the personal review I had previously
Those Communist French. I read recently that the French government fixes the price of books so that French bookshops, including those online, cannot discount books by more than 5% of the RRP. On further investigation I found this article in
The Passage by Justin Cronin has been a bloody good read so far. It’s apocalyptic horror/science fiction that takes vampires back to being monsters and not the insipid morally confused fashion plates they have become. The vampires in The
Price of Top-selling ebooks Continues to Rise. It has been seven weeks since I last checked the prices of Amazon’s 100 best-selling ebooks. Some trends seem to be continuing while others are faltering. Overall, the price of a best-selling ebook
Writing News. I have been catching up on my newspaper reading and I have read some interesting articles relevant to writing and books. Shades of Twilight. A few blog posts ago, I postulated that based on the success of Fifty
Australian History in Schools There has been a bit of debate in the media lately about the teaching of Australian history in schools. I wish Australian History had been taught when I was in school in the 70’s. All
A Pursuit of Miracles is a fabulously entertaining and thought provoking collection of science fiction short stories. It maintains the exceptionally high standards of George Turner’s many novels. Turner is arguably Australia’s best ever science fiction writer and this collection
New Article on DiVine When researching an article on the definition of what a disability is I came across the surprisingly large statistic that one in five Victorians have a disability. That’s a million Victorians with disabilities. I did find
Fifty Shades of Bad Writing. Seems everywhere I look someone has written an article about the mega-selling, publishing-game-changing, super- duper, must-read-before-you die (or at least dis) Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James. As a result, I am sure publishers
Australian Karen Tyrrell has bipolar disorder, an illness that affects many millions of people. Her memoir, Me and Her: A Memoir of Madness, is about her life quest to understand and control her bipolar disorder, and to find out why
The Bottomless River begins in a small town in rural Victoria in Australia. Three mates, Tom, Jen and the male point of view character, regularly get together at a river bank for harmless fun and banter. But their innocent
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