Why are some myths so persistent? An idea takes hold and even though it’s false it can live on in people’s minds for years. Somebody once said that Georgette Heyer never wanted her books made …
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AN UNCOMMON (ROYAL) READER In many ways The Uncommon Reader is the perfect book for modern times. It’s short, funny and very entertaining. Best of all it’s a reader’s book. That may sound a bit …
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Our house was built in 1874. Until 1969 it was a Methodist manse. It’s why there are so many fruit trees in the garden. Fig, apricot, plum, lemon, orange, grapefruit, apples, crab apples and a …
THE ENTERTAINER A few years ago I heard Stephen Fry speak on stage in Melbourne. It was a one-man show and he just stood on stage and talked. Sound boring? It was anything but. It …
Jane Austen is one of the world’s most popular novelists and Susannah Fullerton is one of her biggest fans. She’s an authority on Austen, President of the Jane Austen Society of Australia and author of …
So the beautiful pittosporum was gone and the rest of the garden was a bit of a wilderness. With visions in my mind of glorious beds filled with flowers and fruit trees I took a …
I can still remember my first Kylie Scott book, it was Lick and it was brilliant. One of those books that grabs you from the first page and doesn’t let go. Lick was the first …
I’ve always wanted a beautiful garden. A romantic garden, full of flowers and bits of sculpture with birds and insects humming everywhere. For years I’d weed the land around our house and wonder how to …