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Luke Slattery

Luke Slattery

Luke Slattery is a journalist, critic and author of four works of non-fiction, one of fiction. He is struggling to finish a novel about the Italian Renaissance philosopher Pico Della Mirandola.

Son of Nobody by Yann Martel

This reimagining of the Trojan War at times verges on Monty Python parody

Yann Martel’s ambitious novel is composed largely of verse fragments from a fictional lost-and-found alternative to the Iliad of Homer – but you might be better off reading the real thing.

  • Luke Slattery

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“I’ve always tried to design my life … I’m now redesigning it.”

‘I feel like I’m having my 20s in my 50s’: the furniture maker remaking her life after divorce

Tasmanian furniture-maker Laura McCusker’s “grand design” for life changed after her divorce. But she’s still going against the grain.

  • Luke Slattery
Cyclists pass over a bridge in the mountainous countryside near Tarvisio where the borders of three nations converge.

How Europe’s derelict rail lines became a bucket-list bike trail

Traversing two of Europe’s spectacular mountain ranges between Austria and Italy is made easier on an e-bike.

  • Luke Slattery