I am a careful researcher but not infallible, and I wish to clarify a point about a certain Monsieur Herpin here.
My book, Blue Mauritius, included a brief history of philately to set the scene, mention of which must include a word on the origins of the history of the word philately, or more specifically, the [...]
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Gold medal for Blue Mauritius
Blue Mauritius won the literature class at the recent National Philatelic Exhibition held in Sydney (15-17 June 2007). There were 12 entries (or exhibits, as they are termed). The other books and catalogues entered were all very worthy and I am pleased to have won in that company. In addition to the gold medal, I [...]
Reviewed with a sense of humour
I hadn’t looked for any more reviews of Blue Mauritius after the appearance of Susan Skelly’s ‘Stamp & Deliver: The Journey of the Blue Mauritius from mail to million-dollar must-have is a saga of collectors, curios and cheats’ in The Bulletin (6 February 2007, p.68). The subsequent small reviews in Brisbane’s Courier Mail and the [...]
The taste of a good review
I am very pleased, at last, to be reviewed in the literary pages of my local paper, The Age. I felt some trepidation about this. Would the reviewer damn the whole book on the basis of one clunky sentence (which has happened – it’s a rare book that doesn’t have its clunk, surely a forgiveable [...]