Category Archives: Literary giants

I’m bound to cross the line*

Posted on 15/02/2017 by

I made landfall in America, as many before me have done, at Los Angeles International Airport aka LAX, where I was photographed, fingerprinted and treated to a full body scan sans shoes. While I get the need for security, I found it disturbing that everyone wishing … Continue reading →

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The Goddess of Tartan Noir

Posted on 05/10/2014 by

It was my great pleasure to interview the “Goddess of Tartan Noir” (we all agreed “Queen” was just too, well, royalist) Val McDermid during her recent visit to Melbourne at an event hosted by Sisters in Crime Australia in collaboration with Melbourne’s … Continue reading →

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Val Down Under: Talking with the Queen of Tartan Noir

Posted on 19/09/2014 by

Media release from the Sisters in Crime Australia website Tartan Noir Queen Val McDermid will be in wild and wonderful conversation with Australian crime author, Angela Savage, about her latest psychological thriller, The Skeleton Road, at Melbourne’s Comedy Club, 6 … Continue reading →

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Video: Alexander McCall Smith

Posted on 26/07/2014 by

The Wheeler Centre has released the video of my immensely enjoyable interview with Alexander McCall Smith. For your viewing pleasure, the link is here.    

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Agatha Christie on writing

Posted on 15/09/2013 by

To celebrate the 123rd anniversary of the Queen of Crime’s birthday, I give you Agatha Christie’s advice on writing, as gleaned from her wonderful autobiography. Aspiring authors will take heart to learn that Agatha Christie, who published over 100 novels, … Continue reading →

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Author for a day

Posted on 28/08/2013 by

This post is inspired by Kirsten Krauth and a collective of WA writers who recently blogged on the topic: Which writer (living or dead) would you like to be for a day? It’s a tantalising prospect, one that sets my imagination off … Continue reading →

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Moveable feasts

Posted on 16/09/2012 by

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast — Ernest Hemingway I recently spent … Continue reading →

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Recreating the past: Agatha Christie, archaeology & fiction

Posted on 10/09/2012 by

‘Bismillahi ar rahman ar rahim [In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate]. That is the Arab phrase used before starting out on a journey. Eh bien, we too start on a journey. A journey into the past. A journey … Continue reading →

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Walk on the Wilde side

Posted on 02/09/2012 by

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde disdained walking and travelled between his favourite London haunts … Continue reading →

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