Margaret R Kelly

Margaret R Kelly – Writer & Travelling Raconteur 

I write. I travel. I read. I learn. I dream and I live my dream.

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  • BOOK JUST READ: THE MINISTRY OF TIME ; Kaliane Bradley

    BOOK JUST READ: THE MINISTRY OF TIME ; Kaliane Bradley

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    Margaret Kelly
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    Billed as “speculative fiction”, it is perhaps more cheering to think of this novel, as 50% sci-fi thriller, and 50% romcom. Ok, I don’t normally read romcom—it’s trite and formulaic— but this is sort of along the lines of ‘The Time Traveller’s Wife’ which was devourable, crossed with the ‘Hunger Games’. It does bog down…

  • AN ENJOYER OF REMNANTS OF YESTERYEAR

    AN ENJOYER OF REMNANTS OF YESTERYEAR

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    Margaret Kelly
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    As a ‘taphophile’, I’m a tad excited to be going to learn the stories around an icon of Brisbane’s southwest suburbs, Toowong Cemetery, this weekend on a ghost tour. Sprawling across forty-four scenic hectares, it’s the biggest boneyard in Queensland! Steele Rudd (aka Arthur Hoey Davis), Jack-the-Ripper suspect, Walter Thomas Porriot, and Mary Kelly (no…

  • BLUE BUNYIPPING* IN THE LOCAL AREA:

    BLUE BUNYIPPING* IN THE LOCAL AREA:

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    Margaret Kelly
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    Kalbar is a neat, wee town on the northern end of south-east Queensland’s Scenic Rim. Settled by German immigrant farmers in the 1870s, Kalbar’s pioneering heritage can be seen in historic buildings and welcoming cafes, pubs and providores that offer hearty homestyle food made with locally grown produce; especially Germanicky is 2 m8’s BBQ Cafe…