This book is about fear – principally fear of firearms – and what can and should be done to reduce that fear.
The human longing for the mysterious, liberating joy of wild nature has always fascinated me. So much of art, literature and music originate from this longing, but even on a daily level, most people love to have a break in the beauty of nature. And yet we live in a ...
Wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born
It was of course totally impossible to turn Andy Griffiths’ and Terry Denton’s best-selling children’s book,The 13-Storey Treehouse, into a play. Apart from a multi-level treehouse with a bowling alley, a secret underground laboratory and a tank full of man-eating sharks, the story requires a mermaid, a ...
no one leaves home unless
One of the frustrating parts of writing a book is that once it is finished it’s set in stone while the rest of the world keeps on spinning out of control. Since I signed off on the final proofs ofWebtopiaover summer, what I describe as the ‘worldwide wreck of ...
Whenever I tell someone I’m writing about madness they often nod agreeably – and then double-take. Did you say ‘madness’? I quickly fill the silence, which I assume comes from confusion and not disinterest, with my elevator pitch: my book,Bedlam at Botany Bay, is a history of madness in ...
The story of Charmian Clift and George Johnston and their dream of a life of creative freedom on a Greek island first caught my attention over twenty years ago. Like so many other Australians, I found my imagination fired by the scale of their love story, the scale of their ...
