Mills & Boon author sold 71 million copies worldwide
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WENDY BRENNAN: 1940â2020
The English writer Angela Carter said that no one wrote Mills & Boon novels without putting their hearts and souls into it. Such books, she said, were only written by women of formidable intelligence. These words could be used to describe the author Wendy Brennan who has died aged 80. Writing under her pseudonym Emma Darcy she was Australiaâs bestselling romantic novelist. Both prolific and successful, she wrote 106 romance novels for Mills & Boon, firstly in partnership with her beloved husband Frank, and then, after his death in 1995, on her own.
Jacinta Price Calls for Forgiveness and Healing on Australia Day
A Sydney MP’s request for a minute’s silence for Indigenous Australians on Australia Day has been countered by Alice Springs councillor Jacinta Price, who suggested that the day could instead provide a time for forgiveness and healing.
“Why don’t we use the morning of Australia Day to … forgive?” Price told 2GB radio on Tuesday. “Why don’t we complete the act of healing and use forgiveness to move forward? As far as I’m concerned that hasn’t been achieved yet.”
Price, a Walpiri woman and the Centre for Independent Studies’ Indigenous program director, was responding to questions about Independent MP Zali Steggall’s letter sent to mayors in her Sydney electorate. Steggall asked them to observe a minute’s silence on Australia Day to honour Indigenous Australians who may carry a feeling of loss and hurt about Australia’s early settlement by British colonists.