I'm experimenting with combining pressed plants and folklore text snippets (with some moveable type) in clay to create some necklace pendants for glass produ...

Kate Forsyth was 'in conversation' with Robyn Cadwallader at Harry Hartog (ANU) with her new novel The Blue Rose. As always it is fascinating to listen to t...

Determined to actually read my book club title for July's after slacking a few months, I jumped into Lanny by Max Porter with no idea of the theme or mood. I...

I do read a lot of e books but I love the tactile pleasure of paper. I think it was the gorgeous covers looking so pretty in my Instagram feed bolstered by g...

When I'm very busy, like in a push to finish work for an exhibition, my reading habit suffers. To tide me over I find I prefer to go back to old favourites a...

Over Christmas I was indulged with a few titles from my reading wish list and The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry was the first to be finished. No. 5 of the Top...

I don't know why I waited so long to read The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. I very much enjoyed this wonderfully frosty and creepy tale. The s...

I had seen the lovely cover of Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver on bookish Instagram and having enjoyed Uprooted I put it to the top of my TBR pile. When was I ...

Christmas has always been a time of permissible binge reading for me and with out fail there will be a book to unwrap. In the holiday season family seem more...

Kate Forsyth is a wonderful speaker and engaging storyteller. I have heard her speak quite a few times and on each occasion she tells her story afresh. She i...

While standing in the book signing queue at the National Library of Australia I managed to join another book group (as you do). Unfortunately I couldn't atte...

Between the ages of 16 and 23 I had a major crush on the Pre-Raphaelite painters. In retrospect it was probably the dresses, mixing the romantic era and medi...

As a fan of author Kate Forsyth, fairy tales and pre-Raphaelite art, I have been highly anticipating Kate's new novel 'Beauty in Thorns'. For over a year I h...