Guest Blogger
Posted on 16 October 2009. Filed under: Authors, Guest Blogger |
Sara Douglass, Celebrating Ten Years of Crusader This Month
This month celebrates the tenth anniversary release of Book 3 of the Wayfarer Redemption by Sara Douglass.
Sara Douglass is an Australian author whose books were first published in 1995 with her first published book Axis, book one of the trilogy by the same name. Ever since then [...]
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Posted on 15 October 2009. Filed under: Guest Blogger |
Well, tonight I get the pleasure of introducing tomorrow’s post.
I first met Mark in 2004 when I joined the Australian Discworld Convention Disorganising Committee. I was bored and looking for something new and different to do so I joined the committee. Mark was a Committee member for the first Convention and [...]
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Posted on 13 October 2009. Filed under: Guest Blogger | Tags: Fantasy, reading |
I’m feeling rather lazy today and have spent part of the day watching Angel instead of doing useful stuff so in keeping with that theme of me being lazy I’ve talked a young person I know into writing a guest blog. Jay just finished Questors by Joan Lennon and here’s what she thinks of [...]
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Posted on 3 June 2009. Filed under: Guest Blogger | Tags: Australia, blue barrel, Books, brother, children, Grug, kids story books, missionaries, Nepal, presents |
Reflections on Grug
When I was a child, my family were missionaries in Nepal. Every so often we would receive a “blue barrel” from Australia. This would contain all sorts of goodies, including presents for myself and my 3 siblings.
One barrel contained a gift for my brother – the first book of the Grug series. This [...]
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Posted on 1 June 2009. Filed under: Guest Blogger | Tags: Action Coach, Books, business, Business Mum's Conference, Business Mum's Network, discount, free postage, Grug, Melissa, Simon and Shuster |
Now you want to know what Grug has to do with business. Well, besides being very collectable I just happened to have a friend who has memories of Grug and seeing that Grug is going to be republished this month by Simon and Shuster and Melissa just happens to be in business I thought there’s [...]
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Posted on 30 May 2009. Filed under: Guest Blogger, Uncategorized | Tags: Agatha Christie, America, BBC, Books, characters, collection, crime, Dame, detective, England, film adaptation, Hercule Poirot, Jane Marple, London, Longest running play in history, magazine, most widely read British writer in the world, Mystery, Nottingham, October, Peter Saunders, play, Poirot, published, Queen Mary, Queen of Crime, radio play, readers, red herrings, short story, St Martin's Theatre, stage play, The Mousetrap, Theatre Royal, threads, Three Blind Mice, UK, UNESCO, United States of America, USA, West End, Wikipedia, William Shapkespeare |
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DAME AGATHA CHRISTIE’S SHORT STORIES – UNTANGLING THE THREADS.
30th May 1947 – 30th May 2009, celebrating 62 years of Agatha Christie’s ‘The Mousetrap’
When, on 6th October 1952, ‘The Mousetrap’, a play written by Agatha Christie, opened at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham, England, it [...]
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