A nice surprise

A nice surprise

… when I scrolled down this post (I had been thinking about those beautiful hanging baskets… and wishing I could go to New York, in part because I’d heard from an old friend who lives there this week, and had been reading Sarah Laing’s brilliant comic 

Sydney Writers Festival

Sydney Writers Festival

… was totally fun. It was a while ago now, but I wrote some notes about being there: “In a departure lounge, newspapers take on a special pre-internet significance, as though this is the last word of home you’re going to get for a long 

It’s out!

It’s out!

My new book The Forrests has launched at Sunday Painters, with a really nice speech from Bloomsbury’s Kathleen Farrar (thanks Kathleen!), no book reading (quiet air punch), and lots of lovely people. There are some photos here (by Abba Renshaw of Allen & Unwin), posted