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Feb 2024 · Blog
(In 2022 I revised the award-winning 2017 book Client Earth for Spanish publication. The text was heavily revised and updated, and I present the chapter on China here in its English version, updated as…
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In Hobart in August, Winter was just pushing into Spring. An imported daffodil bloomed in the park. A forest raven cawed a spectacularly mournful song from the eucalyptus trees beside Seven Mile Beach. Mount…
Read more →Apr 2016 · Writing
You know a man is straight because he tells you. It’s slipped into the first conversation – my wife, my girlfriend, the girl I fancy, he says. For years, a gay man was less…
Read more →Apr 2016 · Blog
Before the chance to get married, gay couples collected a range of anniversaries: the first meeting, the first date, the first bonding, moving in together. James and I clocked our first wedding on February…
Read more →Oct 2015 · Blog
That’s made for cheering news as publishing hots up for the Frankfurt Book Fair – Client Earth, the book I’ve been writing alongside James Thornton for the last two years, has just sold to Philip…
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