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

Join me and Jennifer Mills, author of Gone, as we explore the rich territory of memory in a session moderated by Irina Dunn, called The Past is a Dangerous Place at the Sydney Writers’ Festival on Thursday, 19 May.

Wow! FLOCK graces the cover of Leading Edge’s Autumn Catalogue. This one’s from Megalong Books in Leura in the Blue Mountains 🙂