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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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