Reading
March 16, 2015
Annabel Smith has created a disturbingly plausible world in her latest novel, The Ark, which is set later this century in a post peak oil Australia. An underground bunker, aka the Ark, has been established to preserve five billion seed specimens. As violence and lawlessness (known in the book as the Chaos) increase, 26 people consisting […]
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March 10, 2015
Welcome to the March edition of Six Degrees of Separation, a meme in which authors Annabel Smith and Emma Chapman choose a book, and we link it to six others in any way that comes to mind. This month, that book is Wild by Cheryl Strayed. As I’ve been reflecting on the 2015 Perth Writers Festival, and […]
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March 7, 2015
This Sunday, 8 March marks International Women’s Day, where we are encouraged to recognise the achievements of women, while calling for great equality. And it’s not only men who need to do their part, argues my sister-in-law, Gemma Tognini, a former television journalist, who founded and is now managing director of corporate communication and PR […]
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December 18, 2014
Summer Holiday Reading
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In my previous post, Five Faves: Writers from the West, I shared the names of five books (and their writers) that I enjoyed this year. But there are so many more on my To Read list, and I seem to be adding titles faster than I can finish them. Here are just a few of those I hope […]
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December 12, 2014
I’ve heard it said that Western Australia’s isolation disadvantages our writers and artists. Yet there is so much creative talent here that I believe I could spend 2015 reading writers from the West, and still not finish a long list of great books. For now, though, here are five books (and their writers) that I read in 2014 […]
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December 7, 2014
Welcome to Six Degrees of Separation, where authors Emma Chapman and Annabel Smith provide the name of a book and invite us to link it to six other books in any way we choose. This month’s chain begins with The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flannagan, which won the Man Booker prize this year. […]
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