Dr Pacific is specifically good for you – a Robert Drewe short story
Robert Drewe’s latest book of short stories, The True Colour of the Sea, is published this month. The Bangalow-based author may just have drawn…
Books & Bookworms
Drinking can lead to death – sooner or later
Robert Drewe examines the latest alarmist findings on alcohol consumption – and finds them somewhat misleading. Thank goodness. Shock! Drama! Panic! Modest drinkers around…
Because I said so! Robert Drewe on ‘Mother’ sayings…
It seems as if we don’t tick off our children quite like we used to, surmises Robert Drewe after a visit to his local…
Lisa Walker’s Creative Melting Pot
Lisa Walker’s on a creative roll – her latest novel may appear to be a light-hearted romp, writes Jane Camens, but crack the surface…
Barbara Carmichael’s memoir of love and friendship in India
Paul C Pritchard reviews a memoir that explores how pure friendship – even the most unlikely kind – can create magic. Local Byron-based writer…
Robert Drewe on why these days it’s a dog’s life
Robert Drewe says he’s a dog lover, but there’s limits. And they’re being stretched… In my day I’ve owned intelligent, obedient, affectionate and adventurous…
Warning: Tamper with Vegemite at your peril, writes Robert Drewe
Like most Australians who have consumed Vegemite all their lives, Robert Drewe had never given the nation’s favourite shiny black yeast extract a conscious…
Baby talk – but not from babies, writes Robert Drewe
Sometimes Australia’s obsession with shortening words goes just too far and that’s ‘defo’, writes Robert Drewe. The other day I heard a hospital administrator…
Robert Drewe on why he’s never going to Burundi
Burundi may be the unhappiest place on earth, but it’s still got a nerve when it comes to scamming, writes Robert Drewe. Three times…
Heartbreak grape at the Whipbird Winery
There’s satire, revelation and redemption aplenty in Robert Drewe’s latest novel, Whipbird, writes Digby Hildreth. Launching the new novel from Bangalow author Robert Drewe…
Decades of Deadlines give way to the Writing Life
For the first time in 20 years Susan Wyndham will be attending this year’s Byron Bay Writers’ Festival not as a literary editor or…
Will the Queen send herself a 100-year telegram, ponders Robert Drewe
When Robert Drewe was a young reporter, centenarians were so thin on the ground that when someone turned 100 he was sent to interview…
In reality, it’s virtually like banging your head against a brick wall
Robert Drewe ponders a world in which virtual reality is stranger than, well, reality. As someone who these days has trouble understanding actual reality,…
Waiters – no ferreting, and that’s an order…
If it’s the weekend, the chances are you’re reading this column in a café or coffee shop, writes Robert Drewe, and it’s a bit…
Discovering the Joy of Living through a journey with cancer
The irony of a radio broadcaster being diagnosed with throat cancer wasn’t lost on author Barry Eaton, but it proved to be another chance…
Zanni Louise on bears and boys and writing magic
Local author Zanni Louise found there was just a little bit of magic involved in the creation of her second book, Archie and the…
A Bob or Tim by any other name would be round or thin?
Robert Drewe on the vexed question of scientific research, the importance of names and why toast always lands butter-side down. Don’t you love complex…
Robert Drewe on Australians penchant for rhyming slang
When Robert Drewe read of Australian jockey Edgar Britt’s death earlier this year, he thought it was about time to have a quick Captain…
Fast food inventors pass through the Golden Gates
Lazy cooks, student share-houses and the nation’s hungry teenage boys should be mourning the coincidental deaths on the same day last month of two…
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