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This August, I am offering two workshops in the areas of creative nonfiction and the (somewhat more) hybrid form of autobiographically-infor...

On Tuesday evening 29 October, I gave a keynote address to the Max Planck Queensland Centre for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matri...

On Saturday 12 October, I'll be at the inaugural Sunshine Coast Hinterland Writers Festival in conversation with Ashley Hay, Siang Lu, a...

The Greek Herald , self-described as 'one of the only daily Greek newspapers that serves the Greek diaspora internationally', has pu...

Two new reviews of my book, Running with Pirates , have appeared. Writing for Good Reading Magazine , Helen Gildfind comments, Running with ...

The audiobook version of my new book, Running with Pirates , will be published by Ulverscroft on 1 October 2024. I have done the narration o...

I've been interviewed on ABC Radio National's 'The Bookshelf' about Tania James's new novel, Loot. Loot is an historica...

The last few days have been busy ones for Running with Pirates , if, that is, one can speak of a book being 'busy'. Perhaps it's...

I've been interviewed about Running with Pirates by Richard Fidler for ABC Conversations, which is the Australian national broadcaster...

On Tuesday 27 August, I will be at Roaring Stories, Sydney, speaking with my friend Richard Fidler about my new book, Running with Pirates ....

Writer and critic Stephen Romei, writing for The Saturday Paper , has given a lovely review of Running with Pirates.  His comments include, ...

My publisher UQP has prepared this charming trailer for Running with Pirates  to be run on social media platforms. I really love it. I think...

Running with Pirates  has been reviewed by Heidi Maier for InReview  magazine. Maier writes, In unravelling the life-long effects of events ...

Dr Ann Skea, a freelance reviewer and scholar of the work of Ted Hughes, has reviewed Running with Pirates  for  Newtown Review of Books . H...

In the morning, I have my local swimming pool entirely to myself, a very settling luxury ahead of a busy day, and also reflective of the cre...

Readings is one of Australia's leading independent bookshops, with eight shops in Melbourne. Mark Rubbo AOM, who bought the business in ...

Last night, I was interviewed about Running with Pirates  on ABC Radio, by Rebecca Levingston.  Rebecca's response to the book was reall...

A lovely feature article by Susan Johnson about  Running with Pirates  has been published in this weekend's Spectrum , the entertainment...

Ahead of its publication at the end of this month, Running with Pirates  has received an early recommendation from Caroline Overington in Th...

With the publication of Running with Pirates  nearing, I'll soon be giving some talks and workshops that coincide with its release: 27 J...

Tonight, I'm giving a short reading from my forthcoming book Running with Pirates  at the QUT Lit Salon, a student-run series that combi...

Yesterday, Irish writer Claire Keegan was interviewed by ABC Radio's Sarah Kanowski at the Brisbane Powerhouse.  The conversation began ...

This afternoon, I attended the launch of How To Knit A Human  by Anna Jacobson, a memoir about mental illness and recovery, as well as of a ...

My new book Running with Pirates  will be launched at Avid Reader Bookshop in West End on Thursday 8 August. I will be in conversation with ...

The cover of my next book Running with Pirates  has been released. It bears an evocative design by  Lisa White , who has also created book c...

This week I received the 'first pages' of my new book, Running with Pirates , a memoir about fatherhood set on the Greek island of C...

  PRAGUE STATION, 7:44am.  Blue light.  American neighbours. One of their party is in first class: “Ooh, first class,” says their friend, af...