A brilliant, fighting General like Tomoyuki Yamashita, comes along rarely. Dubbed the, “Tiger of Malaya” for his remarkable exploits as commander of the Japanese Imperial Army that invaded Malaya and took Singapore in 69 days, his subsequent history ended in ignominy and ultimately death by ... VIEW POST
Nightmare on “Honeymoon” street
Trip of a lifetime it hadn’t been but winning the weekly competition a year later would guarantee the entrée to a replicated return that might have made it so. Australia Post had invited the whole of the country to enter. The requirement was to write 250 words about a holiday that went awry. A ... VIEW POST
The great American writer Lionel Shriver
"To say Shakespeare was a great writer is almost a clichéd insult to his prodigious body of work. For someone so relatively young at 52 when he died, his profound understanding of human nature is perhaps no better encapsulated than in sonnet 129:- The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is ... VIEW POST