Top 10 Books of 2016

Four of my favourite books this year have been Australian, five from the US and one from the UK. Seven have been by…

Writers Ask Writers: Spanners in the Works

This month’s Writers ask Writers post was inspired by a question from one of my regular blog readers (thanks Steve!): How do you maintain…

I’ve just started reading Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins and it is my favourite kind of book – an analysis of an ordinary family’s…

Do you have a favourite author whose new books you’ll buy without even having to think about it? That’s the topic of this…

1. A Thousand Pardons by Jonathan Dee I discovered Jonathan Dee a few months ago, reading two of his books back to back….

Every Tuesday The Broke and the Bookish hosts a meme inviting book bloggers to post a top ten; this week’s theme is ten…

Every Tuesday The Broke and the Bookish hosts a meme inviting book bloggers to post their top ten on a given topic. I…

Being stranded on a desert island I’d definitely want to have a few of my all-time faves with me. But given that I’d…

Contemplating writers I’d like to meet, I tried to think of some who were really super handsome. And I couldn’t think of one!…

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…