I could be more grateful. Earlier this month, I was lucky enough to be invited to Anna’s Shop Around the Corner in Cronulla south of Sydney to talk about my novel The True Story of Maddie Bright. Anna’s is a second-hand bookstore and cafe run by Anna Loder who loves to read.
Read MoreEnid Blyton is dead not only in a literary professor’s head. She’s more like a Monty Python Norwegian blue parrot kind of dead, deceased, late, no more. She died in 1968, and I suspect hasn’t written anything since. How then can she be releasing books as recently as 2009?
Read MoreIn case you hadn’t guessed, I’ll be buying books as gifts this year. I can’t think of anything better. Reading fiction makes us kinder, more empathetic humans. And what a way to thank the few surviving Brisbane bookstores for making my reading year such a wonder.
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