By Trevor Moore There has been much comment over the last week about the death on 24 August 2021 of Charlie Watts, the Rollings Stones’...

By Trevor Moore Should we stay or should we go Lionel Shriver, Borough Press, 2021, ISBN 978-0-00-845856-0, 266pp Lionel Shriver is...

By Trevor Moore A few days ago, there appeared on a couple of Facebook Groups a picture of what looks like a physical advertisement that...

Still Life Sarah Winman, 4th Estate, 2021, ISBN 978-0-00-828336-0, 438pp I had been reading too much (if that is possible) non-fiction...

By Trevor Moore Alexandria, Edmund Richardson, Bloomsbury, 978-1-5266-0381-4, 328pp Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro, Faber & Faber,...

By Trevor Moore I have had the pleasure - and sometimes the opposite - of playing in many bands over the last few decades. I have played...

By Trevor Moore The thing about pandemics, and I am making a generalisation here based on a sample size of one, which might make me a...

By Trevor Moore Above: Neil Mack will be featuring Tea For The Tillerman on his next show. Listen in. The thing about being a teenager...

Fifty years on Elton John, Tumbleweed Connection This month, to be precise on 28 October 2020, my good friend Macman, known to his fans...

Trust Chris Hammer, Allen & Unwin, 2020, ISBN 978-1-76087-741-5, 466pp a review by Trevor Moore Chris Hammer keeps himself under the...

Just Like You Nick Hornby, Penguin Viking, 2020, ISBN 978-0-241-33857-5, 310pp A review by Trevor Moore Now, here’s a book from one of...

by Trevor Moore This month, on 16 September 2020 to be precise, my good friend Macman, a.k.a. Neil Mack will be tripping the light...

by Trevor Moore Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill’s Cook Annie Gray, Profile Books, 2020, ISBN 978-1-78816-044-5, 390pp...

by Trevor Moore The Catalpa Rescue Peter Fitzsimmons, Hachette, 2019, ISBN 978-0-7336-4124-4, 405pp I picked this book up at Moruya...

By Trevor Moore The Dictionary of Lost Words Pip Williams, Affirm Press, 2020, ISBN 9-781-9259-7259-7, 423pp My injunction that no one...

By Trevor Moore https://open.spotify.com/album/3taJF5jtfoJZ3zDKJBu5zG?si=Koa6YyC1TrS-RRBzWgJeag In the autumn of 1967, on a wall in Arvon...

By Trevor Moore Peter Green’s death made the news because, if you hadn’t heard of him, you had almost certainly heard of Fleetwood Mac...

by Trevor Moore Benevolence Julie Janson, Magabala Books, ISBN978 1 9259 3663 3, 2020, 345pp Now, here’s a book that I would not normally...

by Trevor Moore Rutger Bregman, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020, ISBN 978-14088-9894-9, 463pp I had been looking forward to reading Rutger...

by Trevor Moore The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson, 2020, ISBN...

by Trevor Moore https://open.spotify.com/album/2TjodugH6rA5ZHPsWVErmw?si=XDIcaFL1RBygnku3NVKR4Q Our June “fifty years on” album was Rod...

by Trevor Moore Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/6FaMpsO2fif34ToEu1wLqf?si=6E2jiRLIQR6VpP1AJffPMw This is the first of a monthly...

by Trevor Moore The Bell in the Lake Lars Mytting, MacLehose, 2020 (Gyldendal Norsk, 2018), ISBN 978 0 85705 938 3, 392pp This is Lars...

Who Dares Wins: Britain, 1979–1982 Dominic Sandbrook, Allen Lane, 2019, ISBN 978 1 846 14747 1, 900pp A hefty but enjoyable tome; the...

Any regular reader of these musings that’s out there (and I know there is at least one, for whom I am very grateful) will know that my...

It is the time of the season for finger limes. They have them at Southlands. There seem to be plenty of ideas about what to with these...

Rock of ages or ageing rockers We’re all getting old by Trevor Moore I was idly watching something mindless on Netflix last night when...

by Trevor Moore Conway invented or helped invent much stuff to keep kids and mathematicians amused. Flexagons and Sprouts will keep kids...

By Trevor Moore No one knows who first said something along the lines of “the only constant in life is change” but it was probably...

A Bigger Picture Malcolm Turnbull, Hardie Grant Books, 2020, ISBN 9781743795637, 704pp A review by Trevor Moore I am not really sure why...

by Trevor Moore The more one looks into the past the more one finds that what seems new, strange or unusual to us today is not new,...

by Trevor Moore Night Fishing Vicki Hastrich, Allen & Unwin, 2019, 248pp, ISBN 9-781-7-6087-5503 There are some things in life that are...

by Trevor Moore The Age of Anxiety Pete Townshend, Coronet, 2020, 265pp, ISBN 9-781-473-62294-4 They say things come in threes. I am not...

By Trevor Moore You will no doubt recall, those of you who drive northwards into Moruya, that there was a sign outside the Moruya Museum...

by Trevor Moore When you want to know how things really work, study them when they’re coming apart. William Gibson (Zero History) We are...

By Trevor Moore Dylan, The Beatles and Warren Zevon Boris Johnson has tested positive and the rise in COVID19 cases in Australia...

by Trevor Moore Sometimes I wake up in the morning and see the sun is shining. I’ve been awakened by the kookaburras cranking up. Nothing...

By Trevor Moore Two hours after I wrote this article, the Chief Medical Officer referred to concern about a “very, very steep growth …...

By Trevor Moore My daughter sent me a link to a Spotify playlist called COVID-19 Isolation Bangers You have already guessed, of course,...

Our Man In New York Henry Hemming, Quercus, 2019, 384pp, ISBN 978-1-78747-4826 by Trevor Moore The thing about books about the Second...

by Trevor Moore One of the folks who commented on my article last week was amused by use of the phrase “in due course”. In using this...

By Trevor Moore The Who (source: Wikipedia) I was watching the Fire Fight Australia concert while texting with my good friend Macman. Now...

Commitment? We are living in hope more than expectation Four questions, no answers … at least, not yet by Trevor Moore Well, the rains...

by Trevor Moore Crisis … what crisis? Fires … pollution … 2019-nCoV A view from Hector McWilliam Drive looking north east: 0830 31...

By Trevor Moore Fleishman is in trouble Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Wildfire, 2019, ISBN 978-1-4722-6706-1, 373pp January is not a month for...

by Trevor Moore Fire ravaged property in Batemans Bay I suppose that several members of our local Council who decided in August last year...

New Zealand fiction reviewed by Trevor Moore The New Ships, Kate Duignan, 2018, Victoria University Press, ISBN 978-1-77656-188-9, 357pp...

by Trevor Moore The world of rock music is littered with early deaths. Janis Joplin, Marc Bolan, Nick Drake, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix...

by Trevor Moore Elton John, Macmillan, 2019, ISBN 978 1509 853311, 376pp One of the benefits of being my age is that I was a teenager in...

Silver by Chris Hammer, Allen & Unwin, 2019, ISBN 978 1 76063 299 1, 563pp A review by Trevor Moore I reviewed Hammer’s last book...