Kate's Blog

A few weeks ago I organised a workshop in Canberra for my work team. As part of a session about our organisation's values (respect, inte...

Vintage Murder  by Ngaio Marsh Fontana Pp.223 Inspector Roderick Alleyn is on holiday in New Zealand when he gets caught up with a theatre g...

Tanamera  by Noel Barber Corgi Pp. 736 Tanamera (from the Malay meaning ‘red earth’) is the saga of the eponymous house and all who live in ...

Birds, Beasts, and Relatives  by Gerald Durrell Penguin Pp. 245 This is the second instalment of Gerald Durrell’s Corfu Trilogy...

Sometimes everything gets 'a bit much' and, in these times, I have found that working designs from Really Cross Stitch: For when You...

The Secret History of Wonder Woman  by Jill Lepore (Scribe) Pp.297 Wonder Woman is an important feminist icon, and this book ...

Visible Spirits  by Steve Yarbrough   (Picador) Pp. 273 In this novel of post-reconstruction Mississippi (Loring, 1902), althou...

Last weekend, I watched the Fair Go awards for the best advert. I don’t know why I bother because it always depresses me. Actually, I do kn...