Enlightenment of the mind and the contemporaneous cleansing of it are the wonderful attributes of books. Whether it be fiction or non-fiction, books are our greatest gift in life, a treasure to be handed down from one generation to the next. Books are also an excellent resource to educate your mind, as the writers' experience of their lives' events becomes an invaluable recording of fact for our descendants to gain an insight into what life might have been like during our time on this spinning ball of molten rock, long after the turbulent wind carrying the sands of time has removed our presence from it.

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It is fascinating how our tastes for the arts can grow as we grow- until about fifteen months ago, I had never been to the ballet before- perhaps Alfred, Lord Tennyson was right in his poem Ulysses when he wrote the verse, 'Yet all experience is an arch wherethro', Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades, Forever and forever when I move.' What I can say is that my introduction to the exquisitely pretty yet delicate world of ballet in December 2024 could not have been any finer than the Queensland Ballet's performance of…

Seldom does an actor have the opportunity to explore the darkest shadows of their own character when they are cast for a role, yet that was the opportunity that fortuitously came my way in August of 1995, when I was cast for the role of Clochet, the flamboyant and vicious Milice interrogator in Jean-Paul Sartre's play, Men Without Shadows. And no, that is not a photograph of me performing on stage.

You realise that you are about to embark upon an absorbing read when the celebrated author, Stephen King, writes a commendation for another author's novel by simply stating, "The guy can't write a bad book." That is the commendation Michael Robotham received for Storm Child, the fourth book in his Cyrus Haven series. I previously published a newsletter about my discussion with Michael Robotham in 2024, not long after I had launched my first novel, …