Monthly Archives: October 2014

Brush up your Shakespeare!

Posted on October 30, 2014 by [email protected]

Brush up your Shakespeare - from Kiss Me Kate … If your blonde won’t respond when you flatter ‘er Tell her what Tony told Cleopatterer If she fights when her clothes you are mussing What are clothes? Much ado about … Continue reading →

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BET YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THIS BEFORE: HISTORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS

Posted on October 27, 2014 by [email protected]

History doesn’t have to be a long time ago. Live past thirty and you can remember history. We even have photographs of history. Here are a few startling and varied ones. Let’s start with a knot unbroken for over three … Continue reading →

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SHAKESPEARE OWED IT ALL TO A GOOD EDITOR

Posted on October 23, 2014 by [email protected]

Lake Union, the historical imprint of those terrible godless people at Amazon, recently bought world rights to ISABELLA, Braveheart of France. So I had the great pleasure of working with Tegan Tigani, on the second edit. She was brilliant. Now … Continue reading →

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BOOK LAUNCH 101: THE WORLD WE LIVE IN

Posted on October 20, 2014 by [email protected]

The modern book launch: how do you expect to be taken seriously as a writer if you can’t make a video? EVERY MONTH YOU COULD WIN A COPY OF ONE OF MY BOOKS! JUST SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER RIGHT HERE!! AND … Continue reading →

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GET UP! GET DOWN! GET THE TRAIN!

Posted on October 17, 2014 by [email protected]

Another video from my adopted country, this time from my adopted city. Here’s what we do when WE go to work! The video from one man flash mob, social artist Peter Sharp, has attracted attention from around the world. Mr … Continue reading →

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PINK AND HER VIETNAM VET DAD

Posted on October 14, 2014 by [email protected]

The amazing Pink brings her Vietnam Vet dad on stage to perform a song he wrote himself about the war. Someone described this as Full Metal Chills. I agree. EVERY MONTH YOU COULD WIN A COPY OF ONE OF MY … Continue reading →

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LETS ALL PLAY A TRICK ON A HOMELESS PERSON

Posted on October 13, 2014 by [email protected]

I’m feeling pretty crap at the moment, life has not been good lately, so I thought I’d make myself feel better by playing a trick on a homeless person. Let’s rip up their sign!! That was fun. To have even … Continue reading →

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THE JOYS OF RESEARCH #2: SIBERIA. MIDNIGHT. JUST YOUR PAJAMAS.

Posted on October 8, 2014 by [email protected]

So this time it was the Trans Siberian Express from Moscow to Vladivostock. We had got as far as the tundra and so far no one had thrown up in the dining car. Things were looking good. There were four … Continue reading →

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WHY I’M PROUD TO BE AUSTRALIAN TODAY

Posted on October 7, 2014 by [email protected]

The video was made by Sydney Macquarie University media and law student Kamal Saleh, as a social experiment to test if anti-Islamic views in Australia were as widespread as the media would have us believe. “This video is hard proof … Continue reading →

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the joys of research #1: BIG CHUCK IN LITTLE CHINA

Posted on October 6, 2014 by [email protected]

I was finishing the research for SILK ROAD. We were on a train from Xian to Kashgar, three days that would take us south of the Great Wall, skirt the Taklimakan desert and on towards the Pamir Mountains and the … Continue reading →

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