This book has been reviewed as part of the 2012 Australian Women Writers Challenge I’m a sucker for well written stories set in ancient Rome or Greece, having grown up on a diet of Mary Renault and Steven Saylor. So when I went looking for my inaugural eBook to read on my shiny new Sony eReader and found Australian writer Elizabeth Storr’s book The Wedding Shroud it was an obvious choice. Once I began to read I found it hard …

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I’m very pleased to be able to share the news that the translation rights to The Book of Love have just been bought by Znak publishers in Poland. To celebrate I’m posting some pictures of famous Polish women.

Havelock Ellis, the English pre-Freudian doctor and pioneer sexologist, was the love of my Great Aunt Marjorie’s life. She corresponded with him for several decades and constructed a small altar to the man in a corner of her Sydney flat. I used to hear my parents having a giggle at Marjorie’s expense but didn’t listen closely. Marjorie was always Marjorie, a name I heard now and then, part of the background chatter of my childhood. But then I worked out …