Literary fiction

How to snare your reader: the secret of a good blurb

27 August 2022 9:00 am

It sounds disingenuous, not to say dis-respectful, but as a writer of 40 books, give or take, I never read…

Robert Louis Stevenson, photographed in Samoa shortly before his death

The last great adventure

2 September 2017 9:00 am

Towards the end of his life, Robert Louis Stevenson travelled widely in the central and southern Pacific Ocean. As well…