Bream Book Fair is my favourite event of the year. The Book Fair was initiated by a wonderful local woman…
I bought Nella Last’s War for research for my current novel-in-progress. I ended up reading it for the pure joy…
The Names was recommended by a friend whose choices I trust, and this was an engrossing read. A deserved best-seller…
No Hodding is a short story I wrote for a competition back in 2021 – it didn’t score a place…
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This story was first published on 13 Dec 2020. Sabrina’s Rising is inspired by the great flood which swept up…
Five Days – Five Nights is a piece of flash fiction inspired by the 1904 Union Pit disaster in the…
This story was first published 6 May 2020. Orchard Kingdom is based on an early Australian childhood experience. The story…
The Dictionary of Lost Words is set within the history of the long gestation of the Oxford English Dictionary from…