And so, another year. To be honest, 2000 doesn’t seem that long ago to me, but between then and now, people have been born, learned to talk, completed their education and started real jobs that might well pay more than mine. The offspring of friends, who were babies just yesterday,…
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Being published, 1988
The Inheritors was published in 1988, when I was in my second year of university. I wrote it in my last two years of high school.
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Writer, Redux
For most of my literary career—I use the term ironically—I’ve been out of print.
Time travel
I’m just back from my first trip to Australia since COVID. Airlines are still not operating the kangaroo route at full capacity and tickets are eye-wateringly expensive. I booked with Lufthansa, one of the few airlines that had continued to fly to and from Australia the whole way through. The…