Sometimes my job is unbeatable. On Monday I got a call from The Australian’s London correspondent wanting to know if I was in town and free to go to the Finn brothers concert at the Royal Albert Hall that evening. Sadly, former Crowded House and Split Enz drummer Paul Hester had committed suicide on Friday [...]

I have been doing some freelance work for The Australian on the side. Among a number of projects, I have been writing expat profiles on Australians doing great things in London.
So far I have interviewed Lord Robert May (president of the Royal Society), Robert Thomson (editor of The Times) and Fiona McIntosh (editor-in-chief of [...]

Caitlin Fitzsimmons
Robert Thomson is the first editor of The Times to have played Aussie Rules for St Kilda under-19s.Then a cadet at the now-defunct Melbourne Herald, Thomson made the list pre-season and played practice games with the team before journalism intervened.“Frankly I was never going to be good enough to make it at the highest [...]

Caitlin FitzsimmonsWhen Fiona McIntosh returns to Melbourne every year for Christmas, it’s not just for the family reunion.For the editor-in-chief of Emap Elan, the women’s lifestyle division of one of Britain’s largest publishers, the trips home to Australia provide an invaluable opportunity for professional research. “I think the Australian weekly magazine market is just fantastic,” [...]

Caitlin Fitzsimmons
For Lord Robert May, a man at the very pinnacle of a scientific career, life has been a “series of happy accidents”.As a student at Sydney Boys High in the 1950s he “didn’t have the faintest idea” what he wanted to do but, as he was good at debating, was consistently advised to study [...]

The Light of the Word is the blog of a fellow BookCrosser Rosalind Mitchell dedicated to her fiction writing and photography.
I’m sure she would appreciate visitors and feedback on her work.

The WitchesWyndham Theatre9 March 2005
The Witches was jolly good fun! It is probably my favourite ever Roald Dahl book - although I do have a soft spot for Danny the Champion of the World (the only of his fiction novels without magic and yet it’s just as magical as the others!). The Witches worked brilliantly [...]

This New York Times article (free registration required) is about a core group of influential evangelical leaders in the United States swining their not-inconsiderable weight behind the fight against global warming. They argue that global warming is an urgent threat, a cause of poverty and a Christian cause because the Bible mandates humanity’s stewardship of [...]

Last week at the Guardian World Book Day Forum, Caroline Michel, publisher of HarperPress, compared BookCrossing with Napster.
“And book publishing as a whole has its very own potential Napster crisis in the growing practice of book crossing: books passed from reader to reader and tracked and organised on bookcrossing.com.”
This is so wrong! The only similarity [...]

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It’s juvenile but kinda funny!