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Call me chicken, but I’ve decided to return to the structure of my first three books for the fifth one. The Devil Will Come, is the working title for a thriller about the nature of true evil. It derives from a passage in Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The Devil will come, and Faustus must be damned. Along the Appian Way in Rome a new 1st century...
The 2010 series of The Biggest Loser will kick off this Sunday, 6:30pm, on Channel 10.
Richard Dawkins to speak at the Sydney Opera House
by Random House Australia on 28 January 2010
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Academic and author, Richard Dawkins, will be speaking at the Sydney Opera House in March, 2010.
Is there anyone who isn’t fascinated by the subject of the afterlife and near death experiences? I sure as hell am! Near Death is the working title of my fourth book, a thriller about the biological underpinnings of near death experiences. As I’m writing this blog it’s nearly half done. It’s going well but I’m not ready to run a victory lap yet. There’s a lot of hard slogging ahead and I admit...
It’s a bit unconventional but my friends at Random House have decided to bring out two of my books in 2010. I sincerely hope you don’t get sick of me… The Tenth Chamber draws on my first academic love: archaeology. I got my undergraduate degree in archaeology and it was always going to be a toss-up of whether I was going to go into that profession or medicine. For better or worse, medicine won...
I have a confession to make. When I sold LIBRARY OF THE DEAD, I committed to a sequel without having a clue how to pull it off. I wrote the first book as a stand-alone with a big ending. A sequel was the farthest thing from my mind. But necessity is the mother of invention – I really believe in this old saw! So, over the course of about a month I came up with an idea, but to make it work, I needed...
The folks at Random House have given me this terrific platform to blog for five days on any topic I like. So, being the narcissistic fellow I am (I’m not, really), I thought I’d write about myself! Well, not myself, as much as the weirdly wonderful transition from wannabe writer to published author. It’s a transition I highly recommend and I encourage everyone who’s got the burning desire to keep...
BAFTA Award (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) nominations include Random House titles.
Now: take back everything I said all week about isolating one sense from the others. To conclude with the sense of touch, we’re going to pull them all back together. The coolest poetic device I ever learned was synesthesia, which means one sensory experience is described in terms of another sensory experience. Like using a taste word to describe a sound: “her spicy voice,” or a sight word to describe...
David Malouf, Peter Carey, Tom Keneally and Colleen McCullough are now on Australian postage stamps!
