Book Club Round-Up: A Visit from the Goon Squad

The yes/no smile Last night my book club discussed Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad. I won’t rave about what a…

A Bee in My Bonnet or Idioms in Fiction

Reading the first draft of my new novel The Ark, my friend Robyn brought my attention to my frequent use of idiom. In…

Last week in The Guardian, Rick Gekoski published an article on the importance of editing, in response to the revelation that esteemed publisher…

You know that feeling when you’ve just finished an amazing book? Part of you is deeply satisfied but another part is bereft, needing…

When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end. When we write, we start in the middle…

For a writer, there’s no such thing as an exemplary life. It’s a fact that certain writers do good work at the bottom…

We are two dry stretches of country. We carry the marks of millions of years, from the volcanoes, the ice ages, droughts, fires,…

Peter Docker was born in Wiilman Country at Narrogin, Western Australia, and is of Irish, Cornish and English heritage. He grew up on…

Almost a decade ago, while living in Melbourne, I had my first ‘real’ full-time office job. A thinly-veiled fictional account of this experience…