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I have signed up to a monthly cross-stitch subscription through Spruce Craft . Each month I get a tidy package delivered to my door containi...

The Opal Desert  by Di Morrissey Macmillan Pp. 406 Di Morrissey sets place extremely well. In her dozens of novels, the scenery and landscap...

Here is the latest in the sporadic round-up of TV programs I've been watching. I've got a running list for the past 18 months or so,...

Four people who have met as part of an on-line book group take a month to go to a cottage in the Blue Mountains to talk about books – what b...

On the back of last week's Friday Five, which was actually a top ten, I am doing another for the first Friday of the year. These are my ...

Michael Sheen in Amadeus  at Sydney Opera House I realise it's a Friday and that's usually a Friday Five, but as it's the end of...

  Books read in July: Quichotte  by Salman Rushdie  - Shortlisted for the 2019, Quichotte , is a breathtakingly sophisticated novel of postm...