Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Indonesia”
One of the biggest delights of being in Bali at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in 2018 was talking to Rudolf Gilmore Perez from Manusia Magazine. It was an enormously stimulating interview, and it’s great to see it now online. The interview ranges pretty …
The Helsinki Book Review has just posted a very thoughtful and generous review of Stealing With the Eyes. Here’s an extractː Moving in the realms of personal travelogue and the novel, Stealing with the Eyes is a curious and always entertaining book, driven by lively …
There’s a very thoughtful write-up on my latest book, Stealing With the Eyes, over on the blog of Dr. Alex Woodall. Here’s an extract: It is an absolute joy to read. It made me laugh out loud, cry, wonder, want to know more, want to …
One of my happiest memories of the Tanimbar islands, back in the mid 1990s, is the night I spent in the village of Alusi Krawain, dancing with my hosts to the sound of Tom Waits singing the Screamin’ Jay Hawkins classic Whistlin’ Past the Graveyard. …
Oh, crikey… it’s my big face splashed all over the internet. Or at least, all over the wonderful Outside Left website, who kindly offered to do an interview about my new book Stealing with the Eyes: Imaginings Incantations in Indonesia. Interviewing was the excellent Meave …
Today is the official publication day for my travel memoir, Stealing With the Eyes: Imaginings and Incantations in Indonesia. I always feel both excited and a little apprehensive to see a new book make its way into the world. I’ve heard via the grape-vine that …
This morning I came home to find a mysterious box waiting for me, and I opened it up to find the author copies of my travel book Stealing with the Eyes: Imaginings and Incantations in Indonesia have finally arrived. The book is looking truly lovely. …
Recently, I’ve been working through the final proofs of my travel memoir, Stealing With the Eyes: Imaginings and Incantations in Indonesia, and the book is coming out from Haus Publishing in a couple of months’ time. But I’ve also been taking time out from proof-reading …
I’m very pleased to see the cover of Stealing with the Eyes, my memoir of anthropology and Indonesia, due out from Haus Publishing in 2018. The cover image is a photograph I took of Saumlaki harbour in Tanimbar back in 1994. I dug it out …
I got home yesterday to find an exciting package waiting for me: a small parcel from France, inside of which was a copy of a French comic dating from the 1960s. It was a copy of Akim (no. 247, to be precise), which started life …
Just a quick email to say that I’ve got a new article online over on Aeon Magazine’s excellent website. The article is about the Tanimbar islands in Indonesia, adat ritual law, gift exchange, and talking lizards. You can find the link here. Whilst you are at it, …
It’s now five years since my first novel, Cargo Fever, was published; and—now that my second novel has emerged out into the world—I can perhaps confess that the earlier book is one towards which I harbour both a kind of affection and also a kind …
