On the wall of Tobsha Learner's flat hangs a small painting of a woman with devil's horns, wearing a red smear of a dress. She explains it's a portrait of her by a friend. Why the horns? "I don't know ...

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Egypt, 1977: Oliver, an English geophysicist expert in oil exploration, finds himself unwillingly swept up in a world of political and mystical sabotage after his wife, Isabella, a marine ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Tobsha Learner is no prose stylist but has a terrific imagination. She is funny, too, in Tremble, ...

TOBSHA LEARNER SURPRISES WITH HER BOOK OF EROTIC SHORT STORIES, WRITES CHRIS BOYD. When Tobsha Learner is told about the reaction of one Queensland critic to her historical novel The Witch of Cologne ...

Learner (Quiver) evokes an erotically charged version of the tales of the Brothers Grimm, in which magic instantly fits into the world of each story, and has a reason to exist and something to say to ...

Tobsha Learner was born and raised in England, where she first studied sculpture. She came to Australia, changed artistic direction and forged a reputation as a hot young playwright, with plays like ...