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The long-awaited package containing copies of my new novel arrived today, its arrival, fittingly perhaps, held up by war. Here is the...

Adrian J. Boas
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A New Novel
As a child growing up in Australia in the 1950s and 60s, the idea of war seemed extremely remote. The Second World War was hardly over,...

Adrian J. Boas
Jun 82 min read
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Adrian J. Boas
Apr 20 min read
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Landmarks and Parrots
Flinders Street Station 1927, Victoria State Transport Authority, restored by Adam Cuerden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The...

Adrian J. Boas
Mar 105 min read
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Subterranean Places
Secret passage leading from the citadel of Tiberias. Courtesy of Joppe Gosker I have never liked confined spaces. It is one of my top...

Adrian J. Boas
Mar 28 min read
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Mysterious Affairs
At the Hanging Rock. William Ford, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons When I was growing up in Australia, two unresolved occurrences...

Adrian J. Boas
Feb 233 min read
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Holding Time
Shortly after my mother died at the age of 88, I took a large portrait photograph of her to be framed. It had been lying about neglected...

Adrian J. Boas
Feb 163 min read
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Fear of What Lies Ahead
Australian soldiers near Ypres. Frank Hurley, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons I recently had a molar pulled, an excruciatingly...

Adrian J. Boas
Feb 103 min read
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Reconstructing the Past
Reenactment of the Battle of Hattin. Photograph by Yelena Kon Every summer a group of enthusiasts sets out from near Moshav Tzippori in...

Adrian J. Boas
Feb 43 min read
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A Little More on Bibliophilia
In many ways I am a late bloomer. I began my university studies at the age of thirty-two, my academic career in my forties, and I became...

Adrian J. Boas
Feb 33 min read
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Never Judge a Cover by its Book
I think it is a great misfortune that book spines are so narrow. They leave us almost entirely in the dark. All one can generally see of...

Adrian J. Boas
Jan 304 min read
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On Fabricating Facts
My novel, The Sulphur Priest  (Wheatmark 2021) is set in a medieval castle. It has mystery and action, a couple of deaths, and so, though...

Adrian J. Boas
Jan 2710 min read
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More on Imagination, and the Dilemmas of Writing Fiction
from Strappado from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War by Jacques Callot, 1633. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: from Wikimedia Commons How to...

Adrian J. Boas
Jan 234 min read
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On Fact and Fiction
Academics occasionally write works of fiction, but most often these works are stillborn. Their ill-fated destiny is to be forgotten in a...

Adrian J. Boas
Jan 203 min read
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A New Direction
After publishing my first novel, The Sulphur Priest , in 2021, a story that was very much bound up in my academic work as an...

Adrian J. Boas
Jan 154 min read
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Transience
It seems that the most splendid things are those the existence of which is most fleeting. Spring is here and already gone, and there is...

Adrian J. Boas
May 2, 20223 min read
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On Disappearances
Two unexplained episodes of people vanishing stand out in the memories in my childhood. One was the disappearance of an Australian Prime...

Adrian J. Boas
May 24, 20214 min read
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On Rural Footholds
The narrow dirt track, deeply ridged from the recent rains, passes uncultivated fields and vineyards where the twisted vines are just...

Adrian J. Boas
Apr 21, 20212 min read
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On Too Little of a Good Thing
After failing in numerous attempts at opening an external drive (the tiny white light on the side lit up and flickered like a distant...

Adrian J. Boas
Apr 13, 20213 min read
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On Selflessness and Gain
The concept of selfless love is a fine one perhaps, but how often is love genuinely selfless? How often do people do purely altruistic...

Adrian J. Boas
Apr 1, 20212 min read
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