Peter Yeldham.
He was my brother-in-law and a friend. A great companion who enjoyed a party, a man with a fund of humorous stories about his colourful life. I met him first in 1959 when my wife and I were living in London, and Alex and his wife Winifred were on home leave from his job as…… Read more
Some years ago I expressed my dislike of books that were published as serials, ending with a cliff-hanger and inviting the reader to wait twelve months before being able to find out what happens next. Over the past few years it has been an irritating technique practised by Jeffrey Archer and his publisher, relating the…… Read more
It felt like an impossible venture that became an outstanding success, and was fondly remembered last week on Australian Story. Operation Jaywick was a plan to blow up Japanese ships in Singapore harbour. Military HQ thought it sounded like madness in the year 1943. Australia was in danger of invasion, and Japan ruled Asia and…… Read more
As an author I treasure those letters from readers that say, “I enjoyed this book so much, I never wanted it to end.” I can truthfully say this about Emma Fraser’s novel, We Shall Remember. The story begins in 1939, in a secluded and peaceful section of countryside not far outside the Polish capital city…… Read more
Some years ago, I spent the weekend with Alex Faure and his wife Winifred, to research parts of his life that spanned the war years with Japan, from 1941 to 1945. Alex is French, but was born in Japan of a French father and Russian mother. He grew up in Yokohama. In his last year…… Read more
This week I had the most marvelous letter from a reader that began with a sentence saying how much she had enjoyed listening to my book “A Distant Shore”. It was the first letter from someone who had commented on an audio version of a novel, and she was complimentary about the story and the…… Read more
Recently a youtube literature reviewer by the name of Little Book Owl posted a video about my latest novel Above the Fold. Watch her review here!… Read more
It was with deep emotion that I watched the silent crowds last week, gathered in Hiroshima to mark seventy years since the nuclear destruction of their city. I was in Hiroshima three months after the bomb fell, serving with BCOF the Occupation Force, and based in Kure on the Inland Sea, which was about as…… Read more
The name of this country is beginning to stink throughout the world. Week after week Tony Abbott’s behaviour shows we have elected a Prime Minister who is discourteous, aggressive, and has minimum concern for the universal regard of Australia. The world media has taken an axe to his blunt and callous reply, requesting help for…… Read more
The Book Thief is considered by many to be their favourite novel, and the film that derives from it is a worthy choice as one of the cinema’s best-loved movies. It is a story that begins calmly, unfolding in Germany before bombs start to destroy towns during World War Two, and benefits from an elite…… Read more
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