Rebecca: Misrepresented Romance
During last month’s obsession with Bluebeard, I discovered Bronte’s Jane Eyre and du Maurier’s Rebecca are considered ‘romanticised’ Bluebeard tales. I love Bluebeard (particularly Anglea Carter’s retelling, the Bloody Chamber) because it calls out violence (both within and external to us)…
Keep readingMawson is all over the Bear Wide Web – except Twitter
Dear Friends. You can find Me, Mark, the Guardian, and Mawson (the furrier one) all over this bright world including, of course, right here at WordPress. Mawson’s own Web Den on WordPress called http://www.mawsonbear.wordpress.com . Our publisher is Odyssey Books, where…
Keep readingOne Third price for Dreamy Days and Random Naps, by Mawson
‘Mawson Bear awakes and ponders on the art of creative napping. Scotland The Brave imagines doing great deeds. Professors Caddy and Bree hold the highest hopes for their visionary inventions. Samantha sees wondrous things all round her. The Seekers journey all the…
Keep readingMarked down on Amazon UK: She Ran Away From Love, only 3 Pounds
She Ran Away From Love, Mawson’s second book, features his nervous little friend Frilly who sets off on a quest to find herself. Read more about Frilly and her quiet, determined quest here. It’s marked down to only three pounds on Amazon…
Keep readingMarked down on Amazon UK: Bright World and She Ran Away
She Ran Away From Love, Mawson’s second book, features his nervous little friend Frilly who sets off on a quest to find herself. Read more about Frilly and her quiet, determined quest here. It’s marked down to only three pounds on Amazon…
Keep readingThe Galah In The Reflection
Kevin and Kylie (as I overheard them by the garden water cooler. I have parrot-phrased as closely as possible). Kevin: ‘Hey, Kylie, there’s another parrot down in the water here. Right below me. Look’. Kylie: ‘Oh, Kev, that’s you, ya daft…
Keep readingThe Sophie Sayers Village Mysteries, by Debbie Young: Best Murder In Show
When the least-liked woman in Wendlebury Barrow collapses inside a headless Anne Boleyn costume while tied to the rail of a float in the village show, newcomer Sophie Sayers, like all the other villagers, accepts the verdict of death by natural…
Keep readingHALF PRICE for Dreamy Days and Random Naps by Mawson at Amazon UK
You can find Dreamy Days and Random Naps on this link. In Amazon UK marked down by half. Look also for She Ran Away From Love which is less than a Pound in softcover! Here is more about ‘Dreamy Days’: ‘Mawson…
Keep readingFlush, A Biography, by Virginia Woolf. Who are you afraid of?
‘Then with one bound Flush sprang on to the sofa and laid himself where he was to lie for ever after – on the rug at Miss Barrett’s feet.’ Still afraid of Virginia Woolf? You needn’t be if you are a…
Keep readingDo Quokkas Go Out in the Rain?
Come with me on a train ride. We’ll travel 4,352 kilometres across Australia from east to west, spending four days and three nights on a train 731 metres long. We’ll start in Sydney and stay in Perth at the end and…
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I’m Mark, Guardian of Mawson the Writer-Bear (See more on Page called Guardian). Mawson and I loll about on cushions in Perth, Western Australia. We have made 3 books (I had to help a lot) and also done the illustrations for another book called When A Brave Bears Fights Cancer by Carola Schmidt
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