Book Award and other stuff!

First up, I was delighted yesterday to receive an award for A Ring Through Time, which has just won the Society of Women Writers Biennial Book Award in the Junior/YA Fiction category. A great celebration for a book that’s close to my heart.  It’s set on idyllic Norfolk Island with a flashback to the island’s brutal colonial…

Busy Book Week

Book Week is always a great time to celebrate bringing books and readers and authors together, and I’d like to say a few special thank yous: to Beauty Point Primary – it was a special treat to have my grandson Will in the audience! And thanks for the great raspberry brownies and beautiful flowers, Carole! …

Plantagenet Society

I’ve been asked for more information regarding the Plantagenet Society in Sydney as we’re meeting this coming Saturday, 20th July to listen to an illustrated talk about the depiction of Richard III on screen – although I believe the presentation might also extend to several other kings/queens in the Plantagenet line.  We meet every two…

Richard III convention

A super weekend at Darling Harbour listening to a range of speakers talking about ‘the king in the car park’ who of course has risen to prominence for that very reason after 500 years.  Did he or didn’t he?  We’ll never know for sure, but on available evidence and based on logic it seems highly…