Still Life With Cat

The item on top of the work pile at the moment is a now very battered advance proof copy of a novel called The Little Shadows by the C...

What shall I worry about today? There are a number of choices. [NB: the state of the world is an ongoing given, no surprises there.] Wil...

are all I'm good for at the moment. * Am up sharp pointy end of Adelaide book, lurching from one paragraph to the next as deadline loo...

Australia, what have you done?

If you have to write short reviews of the four novels you've read in the last week and you find you've mislaid one of the novels and...

Writers' Week is about to start and I have to do a few things at it, so there's not been a lot of time to blog -- too busy trying to...

So when I got home this afternoon from fifteen rounds with a sibling -- the ferocious upfront one, all teeth and claws all the time, and no ...

You just keep looking for your glasses until you find them. You finish the novel, and then you finish the next one. You go to the chemist an...