Good Night, Sleep Tight, Mem Fox & Judy Horacek, Scholastic This book, first released over twenty years ago, has recently been released again, largely, I gather, due to popular request. This time Horacek has taken over as illustrator, and it’s a great read by this winning ‘Green Sheep’ combination. A babysitter is trying to put…
Grimm Tales for Young and Old, Phillip Pullman, Penguin Classics This might seem a strange recommendation seeing as I have not read any Phillip Pullman books (although Adam has), despite the His Dark Materials series being high on my ‘to-read’ list. However, that said, I have always enjoyed the literary interviews in the media that…
The book launch for Crying in the Car was yesterday. Preparations for it, and the party we had at our house afterwards, wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Adam and my mother-in-law, so a big thank you, straight up for that. I took the camera down and got some photos before people started…
Whenever the moment comes to tear open that first box, anticipating the look of the books, their feel, trying to gauge all the emotions – I tell you, it remains to be quite an experience. I doubt it will ever be different – assuming this happens again – and I wouldn’t want it to be…
Read / November 14th, 2012
Vanished Years is Everett’s new memoir – his first, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, is recognised as one of the best ever celebrity autobiographies. I’ve not read it, although if Vanished Years is anything to go by I can see why it got accolades. He is bitchy and brutally assessing, to others and of…
I arrived early up to Sydney this past Thursday to spend some time with my sister. In one of those twists of fate (or chance), she now works out in the same suburb where I used to live. I spent a lot of time walking around, taking photographs – making some people look twice in…
The October/November issue of Bookseller+Publisher Magazine has the first review of Crying in the Car: Reflections on Life and Motherhood. With their kind permission, I’ve attached it below: Click here if you want to see the full-scale version. I’m pretty chuffed! Those of you interested in pre-ordering, the link to put your name down…
Read / October 24th, 2012
Slim pickings, I know. I’ve been listless and out-of-sorts this month; there’s a to-do list that’s getting longer and longer and I get spooked every time I think about sitting down to tick something off. Then at bedtime, when I usually do most of my reading – except I’m not supposed to read in bed…
I’m in the final stages of proofing. This is a delicate, crucial point: for example, I found ‘top’ today when it was supposed to read ‘tap’. Yep, those sorts of mistakes you find and think, ‘Thank CHRIST I caught it’. I’m hoping you will excuse my distraction – I’ll be here properly later in…
