The Hair Bandeau in Fashion A hair bandeau is a narrow strip or band of ribbon, fabric, jewels, or metal worn around the head to style or secure the hair. In England, it was popularised in the Regency Era (early 1800s), but the fashion for headbands dates back centuries. Some of the earliest surviving headbands […]
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A Literary World An Interview with Elisabeth Storrs My guest today is Elisabeth Storrs, an author who has a great love for history and myths. She is the award-winning author of A Tale of Ancient Rome trilogy which was endorsed by Ursula Le Guin, Kate Quinn and Ben Kane. Now her obsession lies with Trojan […]
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A Literary World An Interview with Author Sharon Blomfield This edition of A Literary World features a writer I’ve known for some time now. Sharon Blomfield lives in Canada and I am in Melbourne, but despite the distance, our love of Greece has brought us together. Sharon fell in love with an island that I’ve […]
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A Literary World An Interview with Peter Barber Today’s guest on A Literary World is someone who will whet the appetite of those readers longing to “live the dream,” something that many of us yearn to do and yet never act on. Over the past few years, I’ve interviewed a few authors who have made that […]
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A Literary World French Impressionism at the National Gallery of Victoria This week, I visited the French Impressionism exhibition in Melbourne, developed in partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. More than 100 paintings by prominent artists are on view, including works by Cezanne, Fantin-Latour, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Pissarro, Manet, Signac, Sisley, Berthe Morisot, […]
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A Literary World An Interview with Shelley Dark Today’s guest is author Shelley Dark, a writer with whom I had the pleasure of meeting a few weeks ago when she presented her book, Winter in Hydra, at the Hellenic Museum in Melbourne. After reading her book, I could see that her writing reflected her […]
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