The totally ace online booksellers BookKind have chosen ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’ as their Non-Fiction Book of the Month for April. This is doubly good news because every copy sold via BookKind raises money for charity – just select from a range of charitable organisations when you order: https://bookkind.co.uk/book-of-the-month-home/ In…
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Given it’s World Book Day, I suppose I should mention that I’ve got a new book coming out next month. It’s called ‘How to Lay an Egg with a Horse Inside’: a collection of new poems, which also doubles up as a guide to enjoying and writing poetry. It is not altogether serious. It’s pre-orderable…
Former Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has taken some time out from rewriting Australian history to offer some advice to beleaguered opposition leader, Sussan Ley. His advice, to consider knighting Prince Andrew. ”Everyone loves a Royal, so why not bestow upon... Read More ›
Former Australian Prime Minister (yep, really), Tony Abbott, has announced that his soon to be released book on Australian history will be printed exclusively in white ink. ”I’m very excited for the people of Australia to get to read a... Read More ›
It’s publication day for the new edition of my first poetry collection, You Took the Last Bus Home. It’s been unavailable for nine months, following the demise of its original publisher, Unbound. I’m so delighted that Picador stepped into the breach to bring out this shiny new edition. Hopefully it will now be back on…
Some news! A new book is on its way … A Poem for Every Question consists of 100 new poems for children, written in answer to the curious questions that kids will ask. Questions such as:Are unicorns real?How many stars exploded in the Universe today?Was Blackbeard a real pirate?Can it rain fish? Each poem is…
Some news! I have a new book of poems for children coming out in a couple of months – Let Sleeping Cats Lie. It’s a collection of poems about pets (dogs, cats, goldfish, chinchilla, guinea pigs, snakes, budgies, rabbits, blue whales etc). I say it’s for children but it’s also suitable for grandchildren and, who…
I’m excited to say that I turned in my manuscript for the ActivityPub book for O’Reilly Media today. I started working on it in September of 2023, with a lot of interim checkpoints and deadlines since. In April 2024, I finished the first draft of the manuscript. Over the month of May, I’ve been working … Continue reading I turned in my manuscript!
Former Australian Prime Minister (yep, really), Scott Morrison, has written in his new book about his painful battle with the disease endometriosis. Mr Morrison, or ScoMo, as he prefers to be referred to, revealed that he believed that he had... Read More ›
Former Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s wife, Jen Morrison, has taken the day off today due to exhaustion from spending the night trying to explain to her husband the Lehrmann verdict. “Poor Jen, it took hours to explain this to ScoMo,”... Read More ›