Interviews

Keith Rowe, glass blower - OrphanRock

Keith Rowe, glass blower

Keith Rowe is one of Australia’s most respected glass blowers, and lives and works in Blackheath. We spoke with him about his work and his current major exhibition in Katoomba....

Keith Rowe, glass blower

Keith Rowe is one of Australia’s most respected glass blowers, and lives and works in Blackheath. We spoke with him about his work and his current major exhibition in Katoomba....

Blue Mountain Stories - Chris McGillion, crime novelist

Chris McGillion, crime novelist

Chris McGillion is a long-time Mountains resident and author, who has worked for the Sydney Morning Herald and Charles Sturt University. He is now writing a series of intriguing crime...

Chris McGillion, crime novelist

Chris McGillion is a long-time Mountains resident and author, who has worked for the Sydney Morning Herald and Charles Sturt University. He is now writing a series of intriguing crime...

Julie Parker, Rhododendron Gardens - OrphanRock

Julie Parker, Rhododendron Gardens

Julie Parker is a retired landscape designer and volunteer for the Campbell Rhododendron Gardens at Blackheath. The Gardens, with their unusual massed plantings of rhododendrons and azaleas in native bushland,...

Julie Parker, Rhododendron Gardens

Julie Parker is a retired landscape designer and volunteer for the Campbell Rhododendron Gardens at Blackheath. The Gardens, with their unusual massed plantings of rhododendrons and azaleas in native bushland,...

Blue Mountain Stories - Pauline Conolly, author and Blackheath blogger

Pauline Conolly, author and Blackheath blogger

For many years Pauline Conolly has published her popular blog, which has become a Blue Mountains institution. Her main subjects are Blackheath (especially our birds), history, humour, and travel. In...

Pauline Conolly, author and Blackheath blogger

For many years Pauline Conolly has published her popular blog, which has become a Blue Mountains institution. Her main subjects are Blackheath (especially our birds), history, humour, and travel. In...

Blue Mountain Stories - The Asparagus Wars

The Asparagus Wars

We were fortunate to be able to begin Orphan Rock with Blue Mountains' author Carol Major and her wonderful novel The Asparagus Wars. So we're delighted that she's been short-listed for this...

The Asparagus Wars

We were fortunate to be able to begin Orphan Rock with Blue Mountains' author Carol Major and her wonderful novel The Asparagus Wars. So we're delighted that she's been short-listed for this...

New Blue Mountains crime novel - OrphanRock

New Blue Mountains crime novel

Last year's The Problem with Murder was a bestseller here in the Blue Mountains. Now Michael Duffy has written a sequel, The Strange Death of Paul Ruel. It drips with...

New Blue Mountains crime novel

Last year's The Problem with Murder was a bestseller here in the Blue Mountains. Now Michael Duffy has written a sequel, The Strange Death of Paul Ruel. It drips with...