The random media appearances continue. After my triumphant appearance in the Pontefract & Castleford Express, I’m running the risk of overexposure by being interviewed in the latest issue of TNT and popping up fleetingly in the Somerset episode of new Hairy Biker’s TV series – Food Tour of Britain. In TNT magazine I discuss the [...]

I got an email from Peter Macken the other day asking where he could find that video of me talking about Vroom with a View at Mosman Library. He’d stumbled on it a couple of years ago and couldn’t remember where. I couldn’t help him. As far as I could remember I’d never been videoed [...]

The sun is setting on a lovely day at the beach on Bracklesham Bay. Daisy is snuggled up on my chest, exhausted. We’re listening to Mrs Cold off the new Kings of Convenience album, Declaration of Dependence. It’s one of those moments that’ll stay with me forever. The last day of summer, 2009.

Just got my new Aussie passport in the post and I’ve got to say I’m impressed. And not just because I only had my ‘interview’ last Friday. Nup, what I’m really stoked about is that the new passport is actually kinda sexy. The cover is very plain and austere. Just a silver embossed coat of [...]

Travellers Tales are running a writing competition for unpublished writers living in the UK. You’ll find the details here. First prize is a trip to a four-day writing course in Istanbul. And there’s the promise of a ‘glittering award ceremony.’ Not much use to the rest of you outside the UK, but I’ll keep my [...]

Those of you who have read Swahili for the Broken-Hearted know that I didn’t quite make it to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. Me and the bright pink fleece my guide gave me didn’t quite have what it takes. I’ve always felt bad about it. Even more so now that every man and his dog [...]

I try not to talk too much about my personal life on this blog. I set it up to keep you guys informed about my books and stuff and maybe give a bit of an insight into a writer’s life. I figured that’s what you’d be interested in. Not what I had for breakfast or [...]