Mimi and the Blue Slave
When grief strikes, you need an ally. For Mimi, that ally is Ableth, the wildly disobedient blue slave.
Catherine Bateson is a poet and writer for young adults and younger readers.
She lives in Kallista with her husband, a rescue dog called Winter, a wide assortment of tropical fish and whichever children have moved back home as well as her octogenarian mother.
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2026 – the year of poetry and change
My colleague and I learnt that this year is the last year we will be teaching the Certificate IV Professional Writing and Editing course at Gipps TAFE as the course is going to be axed. It’s a sad thing – I’ve been teaching there for over twenty years. When I started we were face-to-face, the […]
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The Shelf of Solace
Nothing like reading about the Tudors to take your mind off your own misery. I started with Philippa Gregory’s Three Sisters, Three Queen. The novel is told in the voice of Margaret Tudor, who we first meet as a whiny, self-obsessed and envious little miss, jealous of her new sister-in-law, Katherine of Aragon and determined […]