105 days ago by Chania

SEE! RICK STEIN AT BANNISTER POINT LODGE The UK's seafood star at Mollymook, the Cornwall of Australia It was love at first sight when Rick Stein first visited the unspoiled sleepy New South Wales, South Coast seaside village of Mollymook. "This is just the sort of place," says Rick Stein, "for fres ...

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137 days ago by randomhouseaustralia

I have always rather hoped that readers would judge my book by its cover. I think its sassy, eclectic, roaming, fun and unexpected – words that I would also hope sum up Adventures in Correspondentland. The presence of Bill Clinton, smoking a cigar with Old Glory covering his modesty, was a complete ...

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150 days ago by randomhouseaustralia

We have reached our destination and the final sixth key to writing The Sixth Key and I couldn’t end without speaking about Don Quixote, Sherlock Holmes and Edgar Allan Poe. When I was a young girl, my birthdays were celebrated in my house by going to the movies. On my twelfth birthday I was taken to ...

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151 days ago by randomhouseaustralia

In a story written by Schiller, a young acolyte sneaks into the temple and steals a peak beneath the veil of the Goddess Isis. He falls down dead. What was hidden behind the veil? Something beyond time and space, something very dangerous…ourselves, or rather, what we were in past lives. In my latest ...

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157 days ago by randomhouseaustralia

The Third Key to writing The Sixth Key has to do with the fact that some people belong to their time and others do not. What do I mean by this? Like Otto Rahn, my protagonist, I realised at an early age that I didn’t belong to the Australia of the 1970’s but to the America and Europe of the 1930’s a ...

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158 days ago by randomhouseaustralia

I’m often asked how long it takes to write a book and I have to restrain myself from answering, ‘How long is a piece of string?’ There is so much more to a book than those hours that a writer sits plying the craft in glorious abandon. But I’m not talking about those nights one can’t sleep because a ...

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159 days ago by randomhouseaustralia

My latest novel The Sixth Key is published and in bookstores and now, as I bask in the warm afterglow of past labours, I find myself turning philosophical. You see, its my habit to retrace my steps, to search beyond those numerous drafts, sleepless nights, moments of self doubt and, of course, the u ...

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165 days ago by Ismé

Today I received a copy of The Shadow Girl by John Larkin in the mail, thanks to Random House Australia, and I thought I would share with you the cover. It is one of my favourite covers of this year and I am really looking forward to reading it; it sounds like it will be a breath of fresh air, an es ...

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168 days ago by randomhouseaustralia

I have dawdled away the best years of my life in bookshops. As a boy there were pinball arcades and bowling alleys and milk bars; but always at some stage I would slip away from the gang and end up at the bookshop. The owner took pity on me let me malinger and browse. He had seen a few other bookwor ...

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169 days ago by randomhouseaustralia

While doing publicity for a book you will run down some surprising conversational cul-de-sacs. (Culs-de-sac?) Pepsi Bears is a collection of short stories that, seemingly, has an animal theme. Making me come off, as one reviewer said, as a modern-day Aesop. Really, the animals in the book gathered b ...

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