Thunder Road

I used to think city people have little empathy or understanding for rural bushfire victims. It doesn’t usually affect urban dwellers and so they scurry on, disconnected and disinterested. Not this week.

Someone told me this week that as the global depression-downturn-recession takes effect, book sales are rising.

After burning the midnight oil to watch the Tour de France way too many nights (Go Cadel, Simon, Stuart, et. al.), I have made an easy switch to being an Olympic spectator.

The Young Adult (YA) category of novel didn’t exist when I was a kid. Sure, there were plenty of books that would have been categorised YA if they’d been published today but mostly it was just kids’ fiction or fiction for everyone else. Depending on your reading level in the upper primary school years, you’d [...]