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40 Years Anniversary of Cyclone Tracy

Forty years ago, I recall waking up as a thirteen-year old, at my grandmother's house in Sydney on Christmas morning. My parents told me that, overnight, the city of Darwin had been destroyed by a cyclone they called Cyclone Tracy. Many were dead and injured, and many had lost everything. I think this disaster has stayed with me for so long since Christmas is supposed to be a happy and joyous occasion, which it certainly was not for many Australians that Christmas Eve of 1974.
 Scenes of the devastation.

My short story collection, Friends, Family and Other Strangers From Downunder, which is currently free on Amazon, features a Cyclone Tracy commemorative story: Santa Never Made It.

More about Author Collectives...

For the sixth in our ongoing series of Author Collective interviews, I am pleased to welcome Chris Casburn (writing as Christopher Joyce), member of CHINDI, a Chichester network of independent authors, today on the Triskele Books blog.

Christmas Giveaway

Many thanks to the lovely Jo Barton and Jaffa of Jaffareadstoo, for hosting an interview and giveaway.

Those Hysterical Women

My review of Guises of Desire, the story of Freud's Anna O, and fascinating interview with the author, Hilda Reilly on the Triskele Blog today.

Fête des Lumières Lyon

Read my take on Lyon's four-day international light festival in The Good Life France



Photos courtesy of Mary Robinson Hubert...

Literary Feast in Lyon

My article about the unique literary history of La Brasserie Georges restaurant in The Good Life France

What I Did Last Weekend

Great launch party at Barton's Bookshop Leatherhead on the Saturday afternoon and our first fab Indie Author Fair on Sunday at Chorleywood. Here on the Triskele Books blog...

Running Fox Books

How they do it in Alaska: my interview with Deb Vanasse, founding member of the Alaska-based Author Collective, Running Fox Books.

Indie Author Fair, Chorleywood

First big Indie Author Fair organised by the Triskele Books author collective, The Alliance of Independent Authors and Chorleywood Literary Festival is coming up on Sunday, November 16th in Chorleywood.
Hear works read by the authors themselves (all genres). Join in with story time sessions for children of all age groups. Browse the books while having afternoon tea and discover a hidden treasure.
Please feel free to drop in during the afternoon. Chorleywood is half an hour out of central London on either the Metropolitan Line or the Chiltern Line. The venue is a few minutes walk from the station.

INDIE BOOK OF THE DAY

Chuffed to announce that Wolfsangel is today's Indie Book of the Day 
If anyone is interested, I'm currently running another Goodreads giveaway for Wolfsangel.