Richard Glover

Richard Glover

Richard Glover is the author of 12 books, including the prize-winning memoir “Flesh Wounds”. He presents “Drive” on 702 ABC Sydney and the comedy program “Thank God It’s Friday” on ABC local radio. For more: www.richardglover.com.au

Clancy Glover, the most perfect dog in the world.

Richard Glover: It's a dog's life renting with a pet

Dear Mum and Dad, it's your puppy Clancy here, writing from my home in the city.

'I'm an annoying person with whom to share a city. But here's another fact: other people are even worse.'

A tone-deaf taster pleads for culinary mercy

Can the man with no culinary discernment shower praise on his partner's cooking?

I'm an annoying person. But other people are even worse

My sins are many and varied, so it is best I list them all.

Where did progressive, outspoken, leather-clad Malcolm Turnbull go?

Why Turnbull needs a bigger ego

Once a man of seemingly limitless confidence, Malcolm Turnbull now seems to bend to the whims of all that surround him, pleasing no one. But he could turn it all around if only he had a little more self-regard.

A final encounter with my mother at her funeral

Richard Glover

It happened at my mother's funeral. A staff member from her nursing home approached with a copy of one of my own books, with a slightly peculiar twinkle in her eye.

The Man Jar: there'll be shiraz tonight.

Putting a price on happiness, before plastic makes it obsolete

SATIRE

According to the latest figures, cash is on the way out. Where does this leave the serendipity of the $5 note found on the ground? The $20 found in a winter jacket? The bounty of the Man Jar?

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association says many people have given up on dieting.

Dieting for the deluded: confessions of an over-eater

There are so many excuses for eating and drinking too much: a bad day, a good day, and one of those middle-of-the-road days which requires juicing up.