Lyn Hughes

I often feel a bit antsy, setting out on my daily walk. Probably because I know I’m supposed to be thinking about serious writerly stuff–plot, narrative, characterisation, dialogue–and not, as I was this morning, about what best to do with some quinces I’d just poached (in vanilla and rosewater, along with a few cloves and…

I’ve always felt a bit challenged by bread-making.  I never seem able to knead enough  (perhaps I need to lift weights or do press-ups), and my loaves are invariably a disappointment. So, for something different, I recently bought a 120-year-old German sourdough starter from the local health shop and, after reading up on various techniques…

Thinks. Bob Katter: “Gay marriage is wrong” Bob Katter’s Australian Party has paid for ads on television this week, denouncing gay marriage. Bare flesh is involved. A natural corollary, it would seem, to the word ‘gay’. Something of a puzzle to this fully-clothed dyke who spends most of her life in her far from alluring…

  Just in case you missed it…Fogo Island, the fabulous (Newfoundland writer) Michael Crummey and nice plug for The Name of the Crime, too–all in last Saturday’s SMH–nice one, Susan Wyndham 🙂

I’ll be reading, along with Andrea Goldsmith, Brett Sheehy, and others, at the Sound Lounge, Seymour Centre, on 25 Feb @ 3.30pm. It’s a Mardi Gras Queer Thinking event-and a celebration of The Bookshop’s 30th Birthday. Hope to see you there–Happy Mardi Gras http://bit.ly/ApVVXX

Later this year, I’m going to be living and writing on a hauntingly beautiful and dauntingly remote rock. It’s called Fogo Island. And it’s in Newfoundland. The Shipping News territory. I’m going to be seeing whales (hopefully). And icebergs (fingers crossed). And eating partridgeberries. And perhaps, during my three month artist’s residency, learning a new dance-a Fogo…

I’m going to be giving a free lunch-time author’s talk, from 1-2pm on Wednesday 3 August at the Parramatta City Library so, if you can, I’d love you to join me. I’m really looking forward to it. I’ve always loved libraries. It still feels like magic, walking out the door with a whole new pile of books under my…

Happily esconced between Donna Leon & Siri Hustvedt, Flock is No. 5 on the May Gleebooks Bestseller List 🙂

The Week asked me for my 5 favourite books…a hard ask but a lot of fun.

A bit tardy with this as have been away travelling in Havana and Buenos Aires 🙂 but a great review from the SMH. Sydney Morning Herald March 2011