Me and William Faulkner
A lot of unexpected things have happened this year. It’s a beautiful, brilliant year in the face of some great personal hardship. It’s strange the way life does both, but it seems to [...]
Stella Shortlist 2017 & The Museum of Modern Love
The Stella Prize was established in 2011 when a group of bold, brave women took the step of acknowledging that Australian women writers were being under-represented in the books reviewed and the [...]
Sydney Review of Books – by Peter Pierce
All her fiction presents challenges to the heart and to the inquiring mind. Written by PETER PIERCE https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/the-museum-of-modern-love-heather-rose/ 17 February, 2017 The [...]
Middlemarch by George Eliot
I first picked up George Eliot’s Middlemarch when I was about 15. And put it down again after a page or two. Now, many years later, I decided to try again. (What can I say, I’m [...]
Sydney Writers Festival
A brief trip to Sydney for the Writer’s Festival was inspiring! Lawrence Krauss, particle physicist, reminded us that we are utterly insignificant in the trajectory of our flat universe. [...]