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Richard Flanagan won the Booker Prize in 2014 for his novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North , which was in part based on his father's ...

The Drifter was created for STW-9 in Perth, Western Australia, by David Whitaker, a British writer probably best known as the first story e...

In August 1964, Doctor Who 's first   story editor, David Whitaker, wrote up a CV for his new agent, Beryl Vertue, ahead of leaving his ...

David Whitaker in Australia, early 1970s On 18 April 1928, 95 years ago today, David Arthur Whitaker was born in Knebworth. In 1963, David b...

This is a very odd love letter to Australia, begun soon after the author emigrated there in the summer of 1950 and published in 1952. I borr...

Jean's life is a bit of a mess. She wants to be a ranger in the wildlife park where she works, but can't get her qualifications - an...

The latest special edition of Doctor Who Magazine is devoted to production design . Among the delights are some things by me: Dr Who and the...

In a British Red Cross shop, the Dr found me a lovely 1956 World Books monthly edition of Nevil Shute 's Requiem for a Wren (1955) -...

YouTube now boasts two clips from Rode Trip , the documentary made by my brother/boss following two people riding across Australia on horses...

The Dr came home from work last night with a fun top fact. Woomera - the Australian home to the British rocketships during the 1950s and 60s...

So where were we? Oh yes, I was blogging from our hotel in the Sydney Rocks, while the Dr was exploring the roof-top hot-tub. I went up to j...

We are now in Sydney, and have had a nice time wandering about and looking at things. The Botanical Gardens (the green bit to the left of th...

It is a bit grey and cold here in Melbourne today. I am in an internet caff in St Kilda - and the locals queue up to tell you that there was...

Hello from sunny Melbourne. It rained yesterday, which was good as I ended up having some urgent rewrites to do on something as yet unannoun...