Each book, each creative work,
brings new things but they share
some common themes.

Some of the less academic essays are about learning how to talk, learning how to articulate what I think and feel, and navigating my path through literature, history and family.

 Although dingoes and Timor Leste might appear to be vastly different subjects, both of the books are about islands, they are both about highly fraught political situations and conflict, and they are both about colonialism.

 Writing from this position, as a settler Australian in the twenty-first century, living on the east coast of this big continent in the south-west Pacific (or south-east Indian Ocean), and drawing on the histories of the places I write about is endlessly fascinating to me. It’s a unique perspective (when you think about how North Americans, or Europeans, South-East Asians might view the world).