by Ian Cochrane | Aug 10, 2018 | Oceania, Utopia
Not just for petrol heads, this is the story of an iconic annual two-day race through Central Australia – ‘God’s Country’ – the 460km off-road Outback ordeal from Alice Springs south to the town of Finke and back. Gruelling and dangerous it certainly...
by Ian Cochrane | Jun 24, 2018 | Oceania, Utopia
‘Trick of the Light’ is Australian writer Laura Elvery’s debut collection of short stories, a journey once begun, difficult to put down. Elvery is the mistress of the mundane and the quirks that live within, the reader led down winding paths loaded...
by Ian Cochrane | May 27, 2018 | Oceania, Utopia
Australian author Helen Patrice has been described as a fantasist cat-lady, tarot enthusiast, belly dancer and a widdershins circle-casting witch. But going by her latest offering – THE COMMUNICANT and other stories – there is much more to this writer than meets the...
by Ian Cochrane | May 3, 2018 | Africa, Europe, Oceania, Utopia
Grandma was a short, stooped lady fond of telling stories in her Scottish brogue. In that blue, white and green MacDonald tartan pinny over a floral dress, she cooked up batches of potato scones, fried fruitcake and black pudding. No one in her family had seen a...
by Ian Cochrane | Apr 15, 2018 | Oceania, Utopia
This morning we ponder our breakfast bowls in quiet isolation, another bush camp away from the road trains, the caravans and crowds, 100km east of nowhere in Outback Queensland… last night’s neighbours a passing herd of camels with shining eyes, their...
