ANNA MACKENZIE

​ Launching a new book is an exciting thing, a beginning but also an ending. It marks the moment when the job is truly complete, and...

When I was a child my family marked Anzac Day, 25 April, by climbing to the trig station on the hill behind our house. It was steep and –...

Fair to say I'm a very occasional blogger. There always seems to be a deadline that is more pressing. Maybe that's as it should be: those...

August is always a busy month, filled with everything but writing. I have a couple of annual teaching commitments and no less than three...

My new title, sequel to Cattra's Legacy, hits the shelves this week. This book seems to have come into being very fast - partly because I...

Grubby old London is neither so grubby nor so ill-tempered as I remember. The crowds are worse - but a few blocks back from the Monopoly...

A hectic few months of completing a novel, editing a magazine, catching up with my family, and I'm off again, heading to London for the...

Three cock pheasants fighting at the edge of the woods beyond my door. They leap at one another then wander about quite contentedly, so I...

Villa Hellebos, my home for the next month, is peaceful, comfortable, charming. And - most important - it really does deliver time and...