Talking about crime on the ABC
Had a little chat on ABC radio the other day, about books. No, you didn’t hear it because I was on – live to air – from 4:30 to 5:00am. The loveliest people are listening then, and they ring in, to chat. I’d love to get a regular guest gig (even if it IS at…
What I read in 2020 – Part 1, the non-fiction episode
2020 has been, for me, a year of comfort reading. Lots of books were tossed aside by page 6 or 7, if they couldn’t hold my interest. And for a while there, during the deepest part of the COVID-19 lockdown, it seemed like very little could hold my interest. Miles Franklin prize-winners: tossed. New York Times best-sellers: tossed….
Writing Q&A: What were they thinking?
Every now and then, people ask me questions about how to write. I like the questions, but whether my answers are useful or not remains a moot point. Recently, I keep getting asked about thinking. Specifically, how can anyone write about a historic figure’s mindset, if there’s no primary source material to say what they…
Mary Macarthur’s Hunter Valley Home
The home of one of Elizabeth Macarthur’s daughters looks set to be relocated – to make way for coal mining. According to this online article, The 1820s Ravensworth Homestead in the Hunter Valley, among the first agricultural properties in the area, is now in the way of a proposed expansion of the Glendell coal mine,…