Tea & book pairing: Gunflower
Matching this gorgeous Dragon Phoenix Oolong with a re-read of some of the powerful stories from Laura Jean McKay’s short story collection Gunflower. Both are bracing, clear and strong. Perfect together.
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Clunes Booktown Festival
It’s been a week since we were at the Clunes Booktown Festival with mobile bookshop On the Road Books and our soft-launch of my literary tea blends Story in a Teacup. It was such a busy two days we barely had time to take photographs but here are a few…
Read MoreOn the Road Books 2023 Roundup
It was a huge year for our little traveling bookshop! We went from the city streets (Melbourne) to the country (Wye River), attending festivals (Clunes Booktown Festival) and markets (Fitzroy Mills) and delivering books to your doorsteps. I get so much pleasure from finding new homes for books that I…
Read MoreOn the Road at Fitzroy Market in Aug/Sept
We’re often asked when and where our mobile bookshop will be heading next. If you’re keen to keep track, the best way is to follow me on Instagram as this is where we announce our comings and goings. We are about to do a few months of regular attendance in…
Read MoreTea & book pairing: Anam
As I brewed the last leaves of a beautiful batch of Kolipari Summer Gold tea tonight before settling in to start a book I have been looking forward to starting, I noticed how beautifully the pale golden tea complimented the saturated yellow on the cover of André Dao’s Anam. Both…
Read MoreOn the Road Books at Clunes Booktown Festival 2023
We took the cutest little mobile bookstore in town to Clunes Booktown Festival last weekend and it was epic. We sold over half our stock, met tonnes of lovely booklovers, authors and booksellers. What a terrific event the team at Creative Clunes put together. Books barely made it onto the…
Read MoreBook & tea pairing: Grimmish
Book & tea pairing: Royal Keemun Mao Feng with Michael Winkler’s Grimmish Today’s pairing is a bold, robust black tea to fortify you at any time of day. With smoky, tobacco notes this blend evokes the early 1900s boxing halls and back room bars of Grimmish, a story about a…
Read MoreYou’ve Got Bookmail!
The only thing better than getting books in the mail is getting surprise books in the mail. Our Bookmail service puts all my years working in bookstores, libraries, literary events, writing organisations and obsessively reading to work finding the ideal books to add to your TBR or that of a…
Read MoreWelcome On the Road Books
I’ve been a lover of books since I could listen to them on my Fisher Price tape deck as a child. I’ve also been lucky enough to work with books, literature and writing in Australia for a long time and I have such deep respect for what it takes to…
Read MoreWe’ve Got This Publication Day
I’m incredibly proud to be included in this anthology published today by Black Inc. which gathers together stories from disabled parents from Australia. My chapter reflects on how my feminism and disability politics have informed my parenting and vice versa. Spoiler alert: they’re impossible to extricate from each other! Whether…
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