Meet Author Larry Buttrose — writer of many talents
Larry Buttrose is a writer of such diverse talents that his output as a published author defies umbrella categorisation. Some might regard him first and foremost as a gifted poet whose literary works also include novels and plays. Others will know him as the author of travel books and popular non-fiction titles dealing with aspects of culture and history. As a journalist he is well known for his contributions to various major Australian publications. Most recently he has become known to many as the writing talent behind the non-fiction best seller A Long Way Home, which he co-wrote with Saroo Brierley and which was subsequently made into the award winning and Oscar nominated movie Lion.
Read morePause for Thought
Most of us are always rushing, racing from here to there, whether in an anxious frenzy or with determined purpose. Why? The answers are as varied as our propelled persons but we rarely take the time to stop and ask, does it always have to be like that?
Read moreTricks of the strong imagination
When Shakespeare was composing Richard III, he relied heavily on Sir Edmund de Fraude’s memoir The Kinge and I (1488), which was still available during the Bard’s day, in French translation, as Le roi et moi. Richard III trusted very few, so it fell on Sir Edmund (1447–1502) to serve his king as both valet cum butler and second in battle.
New Name for New Book
When we approached author Larry Buttrose for the publishing rights to re-issue his novel The Maze of the Muse—originally published in 1998 by Flamingo, an imprint of HarperCollins—as an eBook, he revisited the manuscript and revised it extensively. The result is a distinctly new book but because we initially kept its original name, the eBook was being confused with the old paperback. To distinguish the new from the old, the eBook is now renamed The Muse of the Maze.
Read moreBryshaWilson Press - The Maze of the Muse
Hitch-hiking young tourists assailed by a ‘truly woeful Eagles tape’ and
trapped in an ancient Merc carrying an impressive haul of hash and coke
across the border of France and Spain, does not sound like the stuff of
a literary adventure undertaken to meet a highly-regarded poet and man
of letters. However, it sure smacks of the 1970s and as such, it deftly
evokes the era in which young Australian poet Jack Driscoll sets out on
an odyssey to Deya, Mallorca to meet literary titan Robert Graves and
obtain a poet’s blessing from him. The unfolding surprise of the
unexpected is one of the most striking qualities of Larry Buttrose’s
novel The Muse of the Maze (BryshaWilson Press, Melbourne, 2016, eBook).
The other is the delicately modulated prose delivered as a first person
narrative by Jack, who assumes the dual role of major player and
observer as his story unfolds.