Richard Flanagan’s novel was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize of 2014 and I can see why. It’s a mesmerising story of how one man’s flight from an impossible situation led to an even worse one and how he somehow managed to survive it at great cost. A doctor, Dorrigo Evans, falls in love with […]

 I thought things were going too smoothly with my new novel publication – and I was right. All the proof reading was done at last and all the changes and edits were finished. The cover design had gone through several versions but ended being much better than I’d hoped. And yesterday, Ali, my book editor […]