The posts on this site consist of examples of my short stories, essays, and extracts from my novels.
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Here is a list of the titles on the site:
Beginning in 2017
DECEMBER 2017 ‘Speech at State Library of Victoria’; ‘Fairy Tales at the Ian Potter Museum’;
NOVEMBER 2017 ‘UNDERSTATEMENT‘ from Dear Writer Revisited’; ‘Now Ida Haunts the Car Park’; ‘Rose of Jericho’
OCTOBER 2017 ‘I Hear the Chopper Going Over‘;Euthanasia and the Good Butler; Extract from novel ‘Family Skeleton‘; ‘The Matter of the Mosque‘; Extract from ‘The Bluebird Cafe’; ‘My Hearts Are Your Hearts‘;’The Dead Aviatrix and the Stratemeyer Syndicate’
JANUARY 2018 ‘New Year – the Folio Society Diary’; ‘Ashes to Ashes – is it cricket?’; A MEMORY OF AUBERON WAUGH AND THE FOXGLOVE SAGA; SPANISH SHORT STORIES – MEMOIR AND COMMENT; ‘All Souls’ translation from Spanish of a story by Gerardo Rodriguez Salas
MARCH 2018
‘Mathinna’; RAF THE DOG.
APRIL 2018
MERMAID; PENNYWIEGHT FLAT CHILDREN’S CEMETERY
MAY 2018
Tasmanian Memoir of WW2
‘JEREMY’
JUNE 2018
‘EXTINCTION OF SPECIES – A LOVE LETTER TO LOLA’
JULY 2018
‘The Red Riding Hood Virus‘ – a short feminist essay
AUGUST 2018
“The Cinnamon Walls of the Incarnation Convent’ – from The White Garden
SEPTEMBER 2018
Extract from FAIR GAME – a memoir
OCTOBER 2018
‘Maytime Fair’ – short story beginning with misbehaviour of a bank
NOVEMBER 2018
‘Waiting to be seated’ – a short story response to 9/11
DECEMBER 2018
‘Beware the Tasmanian Sniffer Dog’ on growing up as a writer in Tasmania
JANUARY 2019
The witch, the elephant – and here comes the sun
FEBRUARY 2019
MARCH 2019
Birds of a Feather – on getting an agent
APRIL 2019
Mary Had Always Been Fond of Dogs
MAY 2019
My review of Star-Crossed by Minnie Darke
JULY 2019
Tasmanian Gothic
SEPTEMBER 2019
Resurrection Plant
JANUARY 2020
‘Field of Poppies’ – Reading Group Notes
FEBRUARY 2020
Beware the Tasmanian Sniffer Dog
APRIL 2020
LOOTING OF HATS IN TIME OF PLAGUE
AUGUST 2020
FICTION IS NECESSARY
MARCH 2021
A COMMODITY OF WOMEN
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