More McPherson
Australia, McPherson, drovers – People think of theold drovers as living in general poverty but that wasn’t the case. Old McPherson, the drover I mentioned, could take a good dram when he was droving. Who […]
Australia, McPherson, drovers – People think of theold drovers as living in general poverty but that wasn’t the case. Old McPherson, the drover I mentioned, could take a good dram when he was droving. Who […]
Moidart, Australia and drover McPherson. My wife had an adopted aunt called Mary, whose father had been a drover. I heard of Mary as Mary McPherson but women had a habit of calling their friends […]
Garden of Eden – When Adam and Eve left the garden of Eden, a flaming sword was placed at the gate. What are we supposed to learn from that. We are supposed to learn that […]
Ben Okri – I watched Ben Okri being interviewed – what a great experience. A story should be about life, not a genre. It should be political, military, ordinary and romantic as well as sad […]
I’ve been researching to do a follow up novel on Drover. It’s set in Scotland after Waterloo with all the unsettled returning soldiers and the early mechanisation of the cotton industry. At school we were […]