Archive for the 'Books' Category

Last Sunday my wife and I attended the second launch of Rosanne Hawke’s latest novel Marrying Ameera. This time the launch was in Rosanne’s home town of Kapunda in the lower north of South Australia. I wrote a review of this wonderful book here. The launch was held in one of the local art galleries [...]

The Children’s Book Council of Australia has announced the winners of this year’s Book of the Year awards. For the full list of both the winning books and the honour books click here. Permit me a few moments of dreaming: I hope one day my name will be listed in these awards. Okay – dream [...]

Released just this week, Marrying Ameera is the latest YA novel from award winning South Australian author Rosanne Hawke. Whatever you read this year, put this novel on your MUST READ list. Ameera, 17 years old, is the daughter of an Australian mother – a Christian – and a Pakistani father who is a devout [...]

A recently over heard conversation went as follows: “I am writing a book. I’ve made a great start: I’ve numbered all the pages.” Consider the following: Countless people say they are going to write a book. Only a few ever begin the actual writing. If you have started writing a book you are in rare [...]

Many of my readers here possibly do not know that I am a passionate birder. In fact, I write a very popular birding blog called Trevor’s Birding (click here). It is one of the most popular of its type with many hundreds of daily visitors. Heaps of photos too. One of the essential tools of [...]