JAIPUR LIT JAM A BANGER!
April 4, 2025A month or so since returning from India and I’m still digesting the whirl and wonder that is the Jaipur Literature Festival to fashion a…
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From the Book of Criminogenesis
October 25, 2024In my new novel, Judge Rosa Somberly, which plays (havoc) with the concept of justice, there’s a thief and urban explorer called Chaz who is…
A SINCERE APOLOGY
October 16, 2024A SINCERE APOLOGY My dear Readers, Some of you will be asking: “Who, in the name of the Great Goddess, is Judge Rosa Somberly?” “Shouldn’t…
JUDGE ROSA SOMBERLY LAUNCHED
September 20, 2024Judge Rosa Somberly was officially launched in Canberra last Wednesday before a crowd of friends, supporters and book-reading humans to hear Laura Nuttall’s response to…
WAR SLANG
April 25, 2023THE SOLDIERS’ WAR SLANG DICTIONARY “Genius named them as I live! But what genius could compress, In a title what man’s humor said to man’s…
GORILLAS OF BWINDI
December 2, 2022A silverback gorilla announced itself by thrashing around in a bush, and while we couldn’t see the Big Boy we watched one of the local…
Field Notes from the 2022 Campaign
May 10, 2022Wow, isn’t there some overblown criticism about the CH9 election debate around. Check the huffing, puffing Canberra Times editorial above. Debates test policy, character and…
SEND IN THE ARMY!
March 21, 2022The suitability of our war-fighters to assist in flood and fire disasters became the topic of a national debate over the past few weeks and…
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…
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,…