In recent years I have noticed that people are no longer able to have a calm, rational debate. They are unable to listen to or consider a different point of view without becoming angry and even abusive. For example, I have American friends from both sides of what I...

Last Saturday the Old Boy and I packed two boxes - one with copies of "Beast-speaker: The Flight" and "Beast-speaker: Dragon Friend" and the other with a selection of books to give away - and set off for the Gawler library, in Evanston Gardens. I was going to take a...

Why write fantasy? And, why dragons? If it has to be "magical", why not some nice little story about a fairy godmother or a giant beanstalk? (The people who ask this question obviously haven't paid much attention to the fairy stories that they learned in kindergarten....