Barry Lee Thompson

  • Coming up …

    This Friday I’ll be chatting about Broken Rules and Other Stories with Paul J Laverty on The Quiet Carriage. The Quiet Carriage is a dedicated literature show all about books and authors, on MAINfm out of Castlemaine. You can listen live on the radio or online on Friday 1:00pm till 2:00pm, and the program will

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  • A rainy day in London is a good time to get stuck in to a book. A friend sent me this photo from the staff-room at their university, where they’ve made Broken Rules their tea-break reading choice. Mustn’t forget to pop the kettle on and get out the custard creams.

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  • Review in PS News

    A review of Broken Rules has come in from PS News. You can read it by clicking here. PS News is an online newspaper packed with news and other information designed to inform, entertain and challenge the professional staff of public sector organisations and other interested parties around the nation.

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  • SHORT FIC THOM

    The other day a friend showed me the copy of Broken Rules they’d picked up from Footscray Library. The book had been carefully covered, a catalogue sticker affixed to the spine. Seeing this was as thrilling as seeing my book in a shop for the first time. In some ways maybe more so. There’s something

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  • Colours

    When he’s nostalgic, it’s pale blue like seaside cottages. Circling seagulls in morning harbours, old-fashioned cream cakes, the damp wood of rickety beach-huts. Ease is liquid green, like late summer afternoons. The lazy buzz of insects in settled heat, the sweet anticipation of the evening ahead. Anxious is the colour of commuters in a cold

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