A monthly series of backlist book recommendations, and an archive of essays on the creative process.
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Soulmates, confidantes & ‘beautiful enemies’
Friendship - especially the complicated, twisty kind - is a topic of endless fascination for me. This month’s titles each hold a different kind of relationship up to the light for intrigued inspection.
In The Element of Lavishness we se...
This week: Elements of the Writing Life
Emily & Charlotte at Sydney Writers’ Festival, Sept 2026 - photo by Diana Nguyen
This week sees the launch of Elements of the Writing Life in its self-directed online learning format. This course - presented by award-winning Aotearoa New Z...
Departures, escapes, vacations from the self
Welcome to episode one of my new Backlist Book Club! The three titles I’ve chosen for our first month share a yearning for escape - from trouble, from convention, from places or even from one’s own sense of self.
In Mirror, Shoulder, Si...
Introducing my Backlist Book Club
Solastalgia. Glenn Albrecht, an environmental philosopher, coined this term two decades ago to refer to the grief so many of us carry about climate change.
Albrecht said that solastalgia might be described as “the homesickness you have wh...
Three free events with Emily & Charlotte
A quick message to let the writers among you know about three completely free events I’m doing with Emily Perkins, my co-host in our sellout Elements of Fiction and Elements of the Writing Life courses. Two are live and one is online....
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