Best Reads 2016
Hmmm. It turns out that in 2016 I only read about one book per week. 52 books; 41 of them written by women; 31 of them fiction. Which didn’t seem like enough until I remembered that I (usually) only read in bed, at night, and that sometimes exhaustion wins out over literary merit… Or, as…
Eat Your History by Jacqui Newling – Review and Interview
Hands up if you love to cook? Keep your hand up if you are interested in Australian history? Still with me? Then do I have the perfect book for you (or for someone you know – Christmas is just around the corner and books are ever so easy to wrap…) Eat Your History: stories and…
The Art of Time Travel by Tom Griffiths – Book Review
Australian historian Tom Griffiths was hiking a pilgrimage route in rural France when he met three fellow walkers, all of them French – a salesman, a nurse and a counsellor. When they discovered Griffiths was a historian there was: … a chorus of approval, even, dare I say it, a frisson of serious regard –…
Georgette Heyer and Genre
I’m afraid I’ve been bingeing on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Poldark. Outlander. And the inimitable Georgette Heyer’s regency romances. I could explain it away as research, of course. Trying to immerse myself in the subtleties of the period so as to better to convey the context in which Elizabeth Macarthur lived. But lets not…