Historical Fiction Award Shortlist
Historical Fiction Award Shortlist Well, this is exciting! Haywire is on the shortlist for Book Links Queensland’s inaugural historical fiction award. Details here! If you’re looking for me, I’m off dancing...
Treasure! – a reading
Treasure! A reading with almost real Pirates Pirates and octopuses, parrots, hats and boats. Families and more pirates. Today, I did a reading of Treasure in the beautiful Williamstown Botanic Gardens courtesy of their fabulous Friends group. There are so many corners...
Treasure! The beginnings…
Pirates! The beginnings.. About eight years ago, I wrote a picture book story based on an ‘auto-correct’ phrase. Not one I made, but one that another poet conjured when we were part of a summer poetry blog called A Poem A Day. A Poem A Day was set up by...
Update March 2020
Update March 2020 Haywire Haywire, my first novel, has hit the bookshops! Haywire is based on the true story of the Dunera voyage and the internees who travelled to Australia from London to Hay, NSW, in 1940. Life in Germany in 1939 is not safe for 13 year old Max...From Facebook
Flowers whisper. Flowers blush. #wander #wonder
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I was waiting for a friend and I could hear a tapping noise. 'Can I debug you car?'
No safe places for bugs on a car, it seems. #wander #wonder
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It started with a path to a beach, much longer than anticipated. But the beach was there. And there were more beaches. And sunshine. And lunch. And the lovely Bella at the lovely Heads & Tales Bookstore #wander #wonder
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