Books that helped me escape 2021
December 8, 2021As The Kyoto Bell made The Australia Institute’s 2021 Essential Reads list, I thought I’d return a favour with a list of some escapist reads…
Year: 2021
GLASGOW’S SMOKY BREATH
November 5, 2021“Then suddenly the sun was snuffed Behind a sooty cloud And night let fall on Glasgow Green Its sulphur-stinking shroud” From News of the World,…
7 YEAR BRAIN FREEZE
October 23, 2021I don’t usually struggle to invent fictional names, but it took me seven frustrating years to land the title of The Capricorn Sky. A title is…
THE PEOPLE’S SCRABBLE
September 3, 2021Max loathed games. He described them as “bourgeois timewasters”, in his hard-line way. So we were surprised when one evening, he appeared round the side…
LIVE BAIT
February 11, 2021I hadn’t seen McLeay since soldiering days, and there he was. Sat at a desk under the house where, in a manner both businesslike yet…