The joy of a film adaptation of a well-loved book
Today I went to the movies and watched Mothering Sunday, and it was fabulous. After having read Graham Swift's novella…
Today I went to the movies and watched Mothering Sunday, and it was fabulous. After having read Graham Swift's novella…
The best books reflect the times in which they were written. They capture the zeitgeist by addressing the social issues…
It was wonderful to listen to Lucy Treloar, Charlotte Wood and Jane Rawson discuss whether books can change a reader…
This weekend I'm heading to the Bendigo Writers' Festival to attend the Makes You Think session. While the panelists might…
My 11-year-old son loved reading Harry Potter and Harry, Hermione and Ron kept him enthralled for almost a year as…
I heard an interesting TED Talk on resilience recently, delivered by a mother who had lost her 12-year-old daughter in…
As an introvert, I find that book characters can be better company than real people. Rather than exhausting me as…
It was interesting to read Kate Grenville’s historical fiction about the settlers’ experience of Australia straight after finishing Hannah Kent’s…
I’m a bit late off the mark with my best of 2021 list seeing I decided to have some laptop-free…
My husband and I recently finished watching The Bureau on SBS, a series that followed the French intelligence service as…