The old saying of history being written by the winners has added another notch to its belt with the PM’s Top History Award being awarded to Mr Colebatch for ‘Australia’s Secret War: How Unions Sabotaged our troops in WWII‘. Mr Hal Colebatch, prominent right-wing extremist, and the publishing house of Quadrant have managed to put…
One of my favourite writers in the field of the Gothic Fiction,Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, later known as Mary Shelley was born this August in 1797. I had planned to do this piece on the 30th as that would have been the anniversary of her birth but felt it would not fit well with the Weekend Funny Challenge. As…
The land of Terre d’Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land beautiful and its people welcoming and it was here that Elu and those angels who came from heaven to walk with him made their home in ages past. The ensuing race, the D’Angelines, that…
Writer Charlotte Brontë was born on this day, April 21, 1816, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was supposedly the most outspoken and ambitious of the Brontës, which was unusual for a woman of her time and background. In fact Charlotte was raised in a strict Anglican home by her clergyman father and a religious aunt…
On this day in 1912, Bram Stoker died at No. 26 St George’s Square, London. He was cremated, and his ashes placed in a display urn at Golders Green Crematorium. Born in Dublin, Ireland, on November 8, 1847, Bram Stoker published his first literary work, The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, a handbook…
It has been confirmed the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez died today in Mexico City at the age of 87 after battling a long illness. He is considered the most popular Spanish writer since Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century and has achieved literary celebrity that has spawned comparisons to Mark Twain and Charles…
Some memories you wish you could banish forever and others are so wonderful that the idea of encasing them in amber seems the most fitting tribute. Sadly we too often concentrate on those memories that cause us pain which is why when I saw the I Challenge You writing prompt for Nostalgia I was immediately…
This Side of Paradise was published on this day in 1920, immediately launching 23-year-old F. Scott Fitzgerald to fame and fortune. It is a work of a young author, and possesses some fundamental flaws, both structural and thematic. But it is a truly important work, both in the life of its author, F. Scott Fitzgerald,…
In Daughters of Rome we share the year of the four emperors shown from the perspective of four patrician women who play integral parts in the rise and fall of those in power – even if only one of them is aware of it. The perfect daughter, raised to be the next empress, the feckless…
Vintage and Anchor Books often have some amazing images interspersed with their book reviews. I saw these two and they just made me smile. It seemed fitting to end the weekend with a book – of sorts.
