In The Lockdown Tales there's an Assistant Professor, Amelia, who falls in love with a student, Grace, whose doctoral thesis she's supervising. She wants Grace in her life and in…
I've finished The Lockdown Tales: Emergence, which is the second and final volume of my pandemic Decameron. Unlike Boccaccio, it has a hundred and one tales, not a hundred, because…
It looks like the Alan Whelan Literary Tour will be on again, when restrictions relax. It's not just that it's good value to sell your books on your own behalf,…
Tomorrow I'm going to be promoting my launch, and selling my book, in Pitt Street Mall. Do I have a permit? Not exactly. Not even as such.I expect I'll be…
The Lockdown Tales has been released! I collected it from storage on 20 April. I was almost afraid to look at it because I'd had a long and disastrous day,…
The Lockdown Tales follows ten people, seven women and three men, who escape the city in the early stages of Covid-19’s arrival in Australia, and gather at a farm in…
A look at the political views of the composer Richard Wagner, an antisemite who was also a pacifist who despised German militarism, an anti-imperialist and an anti-racist who admired Lincoln…
Byron needed a hero, and came up with Don Juan. Byron’s version of Don Juan, however, is very different from the hero of legend, or even of Mozart’s D0n Giovanni.…
I am working on Harris versus the Assassins, a sequel to Harris in Underland. It’s set in Persia in 1879, when Harris was lecturing in law at Heidelberg University.
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