A European Travelblog – on the story trail
The view above is of the Danube Valley as seen from the exquisite Benedictine abbey at Melk, Austria. The abbey’s roots go back to the eleventh century. I visited the abbey as part of my tour of the autumn-coloured villages of Europe. It was a dual mission –...
New Release
I’m happy to say that I am starting 2025 with the fresh release of A Hospital in the Clouds – second edition. The novel takes place in the 1920s in Cairns, Far North Australia, and was inspired by two women, one of whom is remembered by her crime, but...
LOSS
On the evening of the Wolf Moon in January, 2020, my writing stopped. The precise moment happened when I was buying an ice-cream cake with my daughter for her son’s 10th birthday party. Her doctor made a last-minute call to her before heading home for his Friday-night...
THE WEIGHT OF SECRETS
The attraction of the theme of secrecy in a novel perhaps is not just to do with the drama of whether it will be discovered, but more about how it is borne by the character.