A Strong Belief in Wicker

The recent centenary of the start of World War One has been felt and remembered around the world. Reading the stories of war is a perfect wa...

I enjoyed the opportunity to read War Horse recently. I knew that it was one of my 1001 books, and so I'd avoided the play (which ...

I expected to love 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. After all this was my second excursion with Jules Verne, not counting the lunches . I...

A few weeks ago I showed you some photos of our all too brief visit to Rottnest Island in Western Australia. Another reason Rottnest was so...

Well today was the big day, the announcement in Canberra of the winners of the CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2014. Congratulations to all the...

Recently I had the good fortune to be able to attend another author event at my library. I do like to attend as many as I can, even if I don...

Utterly Me, Clarice Bean was a book that I'd meant to read for a long time, and fully expected to like. I did like my time with Clar...