Meet the Anzacs Book Trailer

Before Christmas, I visited the Penguin Random House offices to record an interview about the writing of ‘Meet the Anzacs’. This week, following amazing work by the RH team, there’s a book trailer!If you would like to see it, click hereThis poster...

Let’s Celebrate Australia!

   Today, I welcome my friend, Lorraine Marwood, to my blog to talk about her new poetry collection for children. Her visit is part of a blog tour to celebrate the release of ‘Celebrating Australia’ and other blog-stops are listed at the bottom of this...

On my walk today I saw:

two ships sailing away from me old St Kilda pier pylons being unloaded from a barge at Williamstowndancing light beneath the darkest pierthe Sea Shepherd, but my photos of it have mysteriously vanished from my phonetwo young men fishing.’Caught anything...

Dromkeen Open Day and the John Barrow Collection

Dromkeen lives! The wonderful Bernadette and Tony have brought Dromkeen back to life after it was sold 18 months ago. It’s looking grand. The first exhibition is this one – The John Barrow Collection – curated by Books Illustrated (Ann and Ann).John...