Soon to be relaxing at the Diggers Rest Hotel

Having vented my frustration at some of the vagaries of Australian publishing, I now have a more positive note.  A friend has managed to purchase a copy of The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGeachin (quite possibly the last for sale in Oz), had it shipped to her and has tucked it into her suitcase for me, along with Sulari Gentill's A Decline in Prophets, for the long flight back to Ireland.  I hope to be checking into said hotel some time in the new year and hopefully it will have been worth the journey.