Still Life With Cat

... I received this flyer: For some detailed and fascinating insights from the novelist's own mouth pen keyboard about some of the pro...

From today's online Age : "Peter Costello is one of the most distinguished Liberals to grace the Parliament in the party's exis...

One of the joys of a regular income is that one can afford to toddle along to various beautiful Adelaide venues whenever the mood takes one ...

On page 263 of John Grisham's new novel The Associate , which in most respects I'm enjoying for all the usual Grisham things, there ...

The big political group blog Larvatus Prodeo gently, habitually and rightly mocks the style of outraged righteous indignation adopted by ma...

While I have nothing to add to the discussion of (a) whether or not Nick Xenophon has made a tactical blue in holding the whole country to r...

Alexander McCall Smith, who as I write this is just across town in the lovely old Capri Cinema charming the pants off a no doubt full house,...

It's always been in the nature of the work I do that bags and parcels and packages of new books have been features of the landscape. The...

We can go here . (Via Armagnac .) In Victoria and don't have any money to spare? Give some blood, as that site suggests. If you've ...

And this morning as the Weatherpixie climbs into her bikini for the God-knows-how-manyth time this year already, I have another look at that...

And not a spine cracked among them except for the Gelder and Salzman book on contemporary Australian fiction, After the Celebration (five d...

Renowned South Australian blogger, mother, novelist and standup comedian Adelaide From Adelaide , AKA ThirdCat, has gone to live in Abu Dhab...

This is a post for Stephanie , scholar and medievalist extraordinaire, who probably knows these pictures. Last week I read a horror novel by...

The blurb says this person has already published six books so you are expecting a degree of professionalism, a sign that here is someone who...

Today is the tenth anniversary of my mother's death, which seems absurd; even this far down the track I am shocked by how vividly presen...

Last night I went out to dinner with my regular dinner-having crew. We ate at a Greek place in Glenelg (old beachside suburb), so after we ...

Peter Carey has a really excellent, impassioned piece in today's Age on what the elimination of territorial copyright will mean for Aus...

Here's an unforeseen advantage of temperatures in the mid-forties: free solar heating! Just had a lovely refreshing yet non-heart-stopp...

Last night late I went outside with the big torch to see if my frantic watering of the lemon tree (after falling into an exhausted early-eve...