Faber & Faber

I’m sure more than a few of you will have seen the story out of this week’s Adult Entertainment Expo about the launch of TrueCompanion’s “anatomically consistent” artificial intelligence-driven sex robot, Roxxxy. I’m reasonably unmoved by the story itself: sex robots aren’t new, and I think it’s safe to assume they’ll grow more sophisticated and lifelike [...]

I’m just interrupting my desperate race to the end of a first draft imposed silence to let you know a trailer featuring Matt Smith as the Doctor has found its way onto the internet. I think David Tennant is going to be a hard act to follow (though after the truly ridiculous first part of [...]

Caught The Wiggles’ Big Show in the Round this morning (I am so rock ‘n’ roll), and there, sandwiched between faves like ‘Big Red Car’ and ‘Fruit Salad’ was this relic of my misspent youth. It was kinda weird, I have to tell you, not least because it sounded so disturbingly like the original. Break text Break [...]

In my post the other day about The Low Anthem’s Oh My God Charlie Darwin, I rattled off a few of the albums that have given me the most pleasure over the last twelve months or so. I’ve talked about some of them before, but one I haven’t mentioned, and should have, is the fabulous Nothing Gold [...]

Day feel colourless and drab? Then just hop over to Vanguard Records and for a limited time you can download a free Christmas sampler featuring tracks by Josh Ritter, the Watson Twins and a bunch of other acts well worth making the acquaintance of. You see? Good things do come to those who wait. Break text Break text Posted [...]

On Twitter the other day, Angela from Literary Minded pinged me for wrongly attributing her quip about this year’s male-dominated Miles Franklin shortlist being a sausagefest to Kerryn Goldsworthy. Angela was joking, but I know where she’s coming from. Every writer’s got stories about having ideas pinched or misattributed. And though it happens less often than a [...]

I’ve been thinking vaguely of knocking together a list of my favourite albums of the year, but that project’s rather fallen by the wayside (off the top of my head, M. Ward’s joyous Hold Time, Metric’s Fantasies, The Duke and the King’s Nothing Gold Can Stay, the Felice Brothers’ footstomping Yonder is the Clock, Richmond Fontaine’s [...]

Why are all the best bloggers women? What is it about the online space that allows women's voices to predominate?

After a very rewarding morning washing a tub of Vaseline out of my three year-old’s hair (in case you’re interested shampoo is useless but talcum powder and then shampoo seems to have helped) I thought I’d chuck up a few links to liven up your Sunday. The first is a delicious new site called Autocomplete Me, [...]

Just a quick note to say congratulations to Humphrey Bower for being chosen as one of US Audiofile Magazine’s Best Voices of 2009 for his work on the Audio Book of my first novel, Wrack, produced by Australia’s Bolinda Publishing. Perth-based Humphrey, who’s built quite a reputation in recent years for his work voicing novels by [...]