Derek Haines, Author at AtlasLit

The 1969 Censorship Of Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint

October 28, 2018April 16, 2021 Derek Haines 2269 Views 1969, banned books, New Jersey, New York, Newark

Nineteen sixty-nine was a tumultuous year It was the year I started to learn how to rebel. As a teenager in Perth, the most isolated city in the world, news arrived

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Finding Your Way To Tim Winton’s Famous Cloudstreet

October 18, 2018April 6, 2021 Derek Haines 2176 Views Geraldton, Margaret River, Perth

The search for Cloudstreet “Perth is the biggest country town in the world trying to be a city. The most isolated country town in the world trying to be the

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Where Did Mary Shelley Write Dr Frankenstein?

October 5, 2018February 20, 2021 Derek Haines 2979 Views Bath, Cologny, Geneva, London, Lord Byron

Walk the streets of Geneva in Switzerland to discover the answer Life was complicated for Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein, and everybody else around her. Mary Shelley (née Godwin) was born

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy And Islington

October 3, 2018February 20, 2021 Derek Haines 2622 Views Balcombe, Cottington, Islington, London, New York

After Douglas Adams destroyed Earth for a hyperspace bypass, he allowed Arthur Dent a few hometown memories The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy takes us to far away places following