I’m busy preparing a couple of creative writing workshops which are coming up within the next few weeks at the fabulous Harry Hartog Bookshop at Warringah Mall, Brookvale in Sydney. The first is Writing Fantasy for Kids (A Call to Adventure) which will focus on creating an ‘otherworld’, with strong, believable characters, fantastic creatures and magical…
I hope you all had a happy Easter break. Now that the excitement is over (even if the chocolate eggs haven’t all been eaten yet) I thought I’d share with you my musing on what it means to be a writer, along with the weird lives that writers lead. Being an author is a strange…
My thanks to the teachers and students of Beecroft Primary School for making me so welcome at my talks to Years 5 and 6 about writing historical fiction with particular reference to my novel, Ghost Boy. The students were great: so attentive and they threw up some really interesting questions about writing and about my book at…
I went right out of my comfort zone yesterday to record a promotional video clip for the Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, the oldest lending library in Australia, and the Thomas Keneally Centre which is housed there – both a wonderful resource for writers and readers. And my thanks to Berkelouws Bookshop, my wonderful local bookshop in…
I’m so glad I live in Sydney! I’ve had a lovely and very interesting week, starting with the beautiful Lady & Unicorn tapestries at the NSW Art Gallery on Tuesday, followed on Thursday by a really interesting talk from Paul Macdonald at the wonderful Children’s Bookshop in Beecroft, telling us about his early life and…
I spent most of yesterday at the Art Gallery of New South Wales looking at the superb Lady and the Unicorn tapestries, dating back to c 1500 and usually housed in the Musee de Cluny – Musee National du Moyen Age in Paris – where I first saw them quite a few years ago. I remembered…
My apologies for being ‘absent’ for several weeks – blame Christmas followed by a blissful holiday touring Cambodia, Vietnam and ending with a few days in Bangkok – so many exciting things to see and do (and photograph!) there, so I’ll be posting more frequently from now on and sharing some of these wonderful sites…
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL! May I wish you health, happiness and good fortune in 2018, with the love of family and friends, exciting adventures, new challenges, blissful moments and may all your wishes come true. (Rub the magical lamp and make a wish!) My apologies for the long silence: there are multiple birthdays…
The action-packed and very topical new novel by Cindy Davies, titled The Afghan Wife, was launched at Manly Art Gallery on Saturday. It was a fun and festive occasion, illustrated by a fascinating series of scenes portraying the location of the novel (primarily in Iran) which can be viewed on Cindy’s website: www.cindydavies.com.au. The novel…
I’m delighted to announce that I now have a new website! In fact, it’s been up for some time and I’ve been busily posting blogs on it – or so I thought! No; they’ve all gone up on my ‘test’ website, so you’ve missed out on all sorts of news about books and various historical…