Great stories

Regular readers of this blog may remember a book recommendation from Jacqui late last year - The patron saint of eels by Gregory Day. It wa...

It's the topic we book lovers avoid discussing, the thing we like to keep secret: books we know we should read, but just can't get i...

Here's a question posed to me this week: What do people do after they've read a book? How do you absorb what you've read and wor...

My last book of 2007 was an action-packed read by new Australian author Mark Abernethy. I heard Mark speak at the Brisbane Writers' Fest...

It turns out the trick to good literary conversation isn't reading books - it's just being able to talk about them. Pierre Bayard, a...

What makes a story whimsical? Tonight, I watched Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium and yes, as you'd guess from the title, it was whimsi...

Now here's a unique way to tell a story: a TV series about a serial killer, who kills serial killers (and any other criminals who seem t...