Kathy Lette feels like my long lost sister girl even though we've only met a couple of times. On the occasion of the release of her latest book, The Sisterhood Rules, the Byron Writer's Festival asked me to host a conversation with her in front of a live audience at the A&I Hall in Bangalow. Hear us chat ahead of the event here

Gavin Wilson has curated his fourth exhibition for the S.H. Ervin Gallery on Observatory Hill in Sydney and once again it centres on our landscapes and the critical issues they face. He asked me to open the show, entitled Holding Ground, which I was delighted to do.

An edited version of this story appeared on 11/12 April 2026 in The Australian's Travel and Luxury   See below. Sunset over the Aegean from Skala Eressos "As long as I have breath in my lungs, I will love. And even after." - Sappho It is hot and dry in the centre of Lesbos. Greece has been suffering from a five year drought and the cool creeks that once gurgled around the Sanctuary at Messon have been reduced to mere trickles. We are at a 6th century BC temple dedicated to Zeus, Hyra and...