Inga Simpson’s recent paperback was on my holiday menu and while the plot and characterisation aren’t especially original, the poetic meditations upon batting, music and the patient craft of fashioning beauty are exquisite. Like this section on the main character and Test cricketer Harrow was u...
Growing up in the Kapunda Football Club was fun. It does take a village to raise a child, and in part many of us were guided through to adulthood by the Bombers. Sometimes in affirming, character-building ways, and sometimes by one of the Mickan brothers. * Eudunda. Heading across the ...
Blood is thicker than water ; Actor Sean Jones has wanted to play Mickey in the hard-hitting musical Blood Brothers since he was a student. Caroline Read talks to him about touring the country in his dream roleCaroline Read
Subsequently the narrator confesses this act of violence, and events take another unexpected turn with the priest acting immorally. We find dark humour in the idea that a religious figure would steal a story and publicise it in a novel. Little wonder that our main character is disturbed! With ...