The only real writing I’ve managed all year is this article on the National Library of Australia’s Mauritius Collection, for the monthly journal National Library of Australia News. It’s wonderful to see the Library’s beautiful painting of a dodo gracing the July issue’s cover, highlighting the rich holdings relating to Mauritius in their collection. I [...]
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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 [...]
Once was enamoured of footnotes
Blue Mauritius received its first write up in the press (that I’m aware of) in the UK’s Daily Mail recently (11 August). It didn’t make it online, but a copy was sent to me this week. It is mostly a descriptive review (Critic’s choice), and to my chagrin, refers to the ball envelopes as invitations [...]
Shadows of self
Sigh, I don’t know what this blog is going to be about yet (well, unconsidered trifles…), so bear with me. I have no book news (hint, hint, publisher/distributor, ‘twould be nice to know when people can buy it in Australia – from a real bookshop, where one could indulge the thrill of seeing it on [...]