UK PUBLICATION DAY 🇬🇧

A year ago I went to London to visit some grand, old, complicated museums, and track down some big pieces of the puzzle that become my second book #TheButterflyThief 🦋

A year later, pretty much to the day, it’s out now: scribepublications.co.uk/books/the-butterfly-thief

Free lesson in museum theft management courtesy of my new book The Butterfly Thief (spoiler: they still got robbed)

My second book, The Butterfly Thief, is out today — cracking open the complicated world of natural history museums, and the gentleman collector who left them scrambling 🦋

Net it in the wild at your local bookshop or order online: scribepublications.com.au/books/the-bu...

Reflecting on the history of @meanjin.bsky.social — back in 1949 our teenage comrade Rupert Murdoch published his own lit mag and credited Meanjin (and its founder/his Geelong Grammar teacher Clem Christensen) for making it possible. It was the first thing he ever published.

At QLD senate estimates last week it was revealed Arts Queensland overturned a long-held plan to name QPAC’s new theatre after a prominent First Nations figure (Oodgeroo Noonuccal was frontrunner) in favour of a public vote. It’s now the ‘Glasshouse’ — the same name as a theatre in Port Macquarie 🤔

Port Willunga beach / Tirranangku is one of the most beautiful places I know. Visited today for the first time in months and it hit me right in the guts:

Big turnout this afternoon on Kaurna Yarta, marching across King William St bridge to Parliament House

Pre-order links for UK and US editions of The Butterfly Thief — with alternative cover 🦋

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🦋 My new book ‘The Butterfly Thief: adventure, empire, and Australia’s greatest museum heist’ is out in Australia/UK/US from October via @scribepub.bsky.social 🦋

Pre-order here: scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-butterfly-thief-9781761381478

Our cat loves to browse books at night

“We saw the worst of systems and the best of people” - @jennifermills.net.au on how a pandemic in Italy informed her spec fic novel Salvage, which we launched tonight ✨ www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781761563775/

When I wrote my Murdoch book in 2022 I thought maybe Welcome to Country discourse was too settled to put this story on page one — but Australia’s laziest culture warriors love reheating old material

I am shocked that Zuckerberg would rip off my book about a young disruptor who shattered norms and challenged rusted-on establishments only to become more powerful, influential, and toxic than the dinosaurs he replaced.

3.5 months in and the rescue cat has definitely found her spot

Some nice mail from the UK — I am much more depressed about AI since writing this one, but still a fun profile of Laurie Anderson