Friday Faves: Flawed Characters
In Whiskey and Charlie both my title characters are what you might call ‘flawed’. My friend and mentor Richard Rossiter, when reading the manuscript for…
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Friday Faves: Sibling Stories
This month my novel Whiskey and Charlie (published in Australia as Whisky Charlie Foxtrot) was released in the US. It tells the story of…
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Friday Faves: Memoirs
I rarely read non-fiction but one form I am drawn to is the memoir. I recently enjoyed Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild (the starting point for…
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Friday Faves: Climate Change Books
My novel The Ark is set twenty years from now, during a post-peak oil crisis. The polar ice caps have melted. Crops are…
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Friday Faves: Best Books of 2014
SA Jones: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler My favourite book of 2014 was Karen Joy Fowler’s We Are…
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Friday Faves: Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
…in which I invite someone bookish to share one of their all-time favourite works of fiction and what it means to them. This…
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Friday Faves: Books About War
There are certain topics I tend to avoid in my reading and war is one of them but Richard Flanagan’s Booker-prize win for…
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Friday Faves: Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
…in which I invite someone bookish to share one of their all-time favourite works of fiction and what it means to them. This…
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Friday Faves: Dark Tower by Stephen King
…in which I invite someone bookish to share one of their all-time favourite works of fiction and what it means to them. This…
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Friday Faves: Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
…in which I invite someone bookish to share one of their all-time favourite works of fiction and what it means to them. This…
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