The Tumbrel Diaries

About six months ago I received an email message from a researcher for AustLit, an Australian literary website and database currently affili...

Another chance encounter in London last week: a beautifully spare publication of 150 rare documents spanning the last six centuries, each ...

This week, whilst kicking my heels in London, I chanced upon a gem of a book in a remote corner of Hatchard’s of Piccadilly. It is an anth...

I have just returned to New Haven from a working trip to London. I should have returned a week ago, but I got marooned in what will no dou...

I am now forty-six. How on earth did this happen?

It is ten years to the day since my father died in Melbourne. I can hardly believe it. I have his photograph on my desk at home, and anothe...