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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Mark Binmore
When I undertook my first ever meet and greet tour throughout America during 2016, I asked Chris Henson to accompany me with the idea of eventually producing some sort of…
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'Forward into the mysterious beauty of spring The crocuses, melon-dawn yellow snow-purple veined saffron and milk-hearts And birdsong becoming audible, trilling and chattering in symphony Spools of song, sweet canticles…
The official tag. An account of my publicity tour to advertise a book and musical workshop by Chris Henson recorded in words and pictures, as we travelled and promoted. The…
'I'm not like the other boys that you've known
But I believe I'm worth coming home to
Kiss away the night
... ...because this one sleeps only with the butterflies
…
Kiss away the night...
...because this one sleeps only with the butterflies
Just…
For Frankie.
Not the extinguishing of the light but the putting out of the lamp, because the dawn has come.
Beautiful Deconstruction sees people come to terms with the past…
When I toured across Europe for promotion of a recent published book, I anticipated some sort of confrontation between my own values of what a book launch should be, perhaps…
Hireth.
Homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, or for a home which may have never been.
An intense form of longing or nostalgia, wistfulness.
The grief for…
After A Sorta Fairytale was published, I was inundated with requests to talk more about my prose lyrics. One part of me felt that the text should speak for itself…
Set in one of the last great villas on the French Riviera, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed German family within the shadow of the wall…
'And watching lovers part, I breathe and feel you smiling. What memories we share lie so deep in your mind. To tear out from your eyes I won't speak of…
Short stories are, in my mind, just a brief snapshot of what could be a longer tale. A taster. Something in development. Fragments.
Each of these collected shorts are just…
Beautiful Mess features a kaleidoscope of scenarios and locations, together with a highly diverse cast of characters, from glamorous movie stars to burnt out strippers, somnambulists to drag queens, from…
'Did I really agree to this?' he asks. 'A couple of people who read the first book Tour De Europa, ' he says, 'they either really liked it or they…
Following on from his previous novel, Sleeps With Butterflies, evoking the manifold themes and compelling rural French atmosphere of its predecessor, The Living Return continues the story of Marc.
Still…
Summer 1987.
Stephen Wallingford, once the epitaph of all things fabulous and now a recluse of the modern era, receives a letter from an up and coming author wishing to…
Sunsets Etc is a glimpse into the life of an actor as he settles into a new home and his retirement phase. A place to escape from everything. Rooms to…
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