A Strong Belief in Wicker

It's been fun participating in the Australian Women Writers Challenge this year. It became a really successful initiative. Some peop...

I was very excited about this title when it came out last year, it's a shame that it's taken me so long to read it. It's a fa...

Some books just demand to be read when the iron is hot and Nest was one of those books for me. I had been to the fabulous On the Wing ...

I've long been obsessed by the notion of Antarctica. Back when I was 20 I decided to write an action thriller set in Antarctica. I...

I always really enjoy reading some fiction based around travel locations. So when I had the chance to travel to Melbourne for the Melbour...

I hadn't heard of Penguin Specials until I stumbled upon this ad in the Weekend Australian Magazine last week.  A new series ...

Sonya Hartnett is a big name in Aussie writing. A bit of a powerhouse really. She's written quite a number of highly regarded books....

I finished The Naming of Tishkin Silk last week. And then I reread it today, on a sick day, spent mostly lounging about in bed. It...

Australia is famously  a land of droughts and flooding rains . There have certainly been plenty of both recently, and Queensland has bo...

I was excited to find this book at a used book sale a few weeks ago. It became the first book that I dipped into from my Big Fat Book...

Like everyone else who was ever an Australian school girl I remember teachers trying to teach me about Australian explorers. Of course I...

I'd seen the badge for this challenge around the blog world a few times of late, but hadn't really looked at it until the other day....

Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks are both famous in their own right. Margaret Wild as the author of more than 70 books, including the ext...