The outing to the Melbourne Rare Book Fair, brought back fond memories of my years working in the book trade. Although I ended my working l...

This past week in Melbourne has been Rare Book Week and today I went with a fellow bibliophile to the Rare Book Fair which was held at Wil...

  Blue note – Talya caught napping As I write this post both cats are asleep on the bed - at opposite ends of course - Talya at the foot, a...

At about this time last year, I was eagerly following the progress of a Kickstarter project for a new Tex Murphy game.  The producers, ...

Karen Joy Fowler is well known as the author of The Jane Austen Book Club , but she has written six novels in all, and several collection...

I have mentioned the novels of American writer Edward Whittemore previously and indeed for 12 years have maintained  Jerusalem Dreaming , a...

  Paul Thorn live at Northcote Social Club – 23 June 2013 I don’t get out to music as much these days, since severing my connection to Base...