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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

UK PUBLICATION DAY 🇬🇧 A year ago I went to London to visit some grand, old, complicated museums, and track down some big pieces of the puzzle that become my second book #TheButterflyThief 🦋 A year later, pretty much to the day, it’s out now: scribepublications.co.uk/books/the-butterfly-thief

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Free lesson in museum theft management courtesy of my new book The Butterfly Thief (spoiler: they still got robbed)

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

My second book, The Butterfly Thief, is out today — cracking open the complicated world of natural history museums, and the gentleman collector who left them scrambling 🦋 Net it in the wild at your local bookshop or order online: scribepublications.com.au/books/the-bu...

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Reflecting on the history of @meanjin.bsky.social — back in 1949 our teenage comrade Rupert Murdoch published his own lit mag and credited Meanjin (and its founder/his Geelong Grammar teacher Clem Christensen) for making it possible. It was the first thing he ever published.

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

At QLD senate estimates last week it was revealed Arts Queensland overturned a long-held plan to name QPAC’s new theatre after a prominent First Nations figure (Oodgeroo Noonuccal was frontrunner) in favour of a public vote. It’s now the ‘Glasshouse’ — the same name as a theatre in Port Macquarie 🤔

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Port Willunga beach / Tirranangku is one of the most beautiful places I know. Visited today for the first time in months and it hit me right in the guts:

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Big turnout this afternoon on Kaurna Yarta, marching across King William St bridge to Parliament House

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Pre-order links for UK and US editions of The Butterfly Thief — with alternative cover 🦋 🇬🇧 scribepublications.co.uk/books-author... 🇺🇸 scribepublications.com/books-author...

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

🦋 My new book ‘The Butterfly Thief: adventure, empire, and Australia’s greatest museum heist’ is out in Australia/UK/US from October via @scribepub.bsky.social 🦋 Pre-order here: scribepublications.com.au/books-authors/books/the-butterfly-thief-9781761381478

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Our cat loves to browse books at night

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

“We saw the worst of systems and the best of people” - @jennifermills.net.au on how a pandemic in Italy informed her spec fic novel Salvage, which we launched tonight ✨ www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781761563775/

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

When I wrote my Murdoch book in 2022 I thought maybe Welcome to Country discourse was too settled to put this story on page one — but Australia’s laziest culture warriors love reheating old material

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I am shocked that Zuckerberg would rip off my book about a young disruptor who shattered norms and challenged rusted-on establishments only to become more powerful, influential, and toxic than the dinosaurs he replaced.

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

3.5 months in and the rescue cat has definitely found her spot

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Walter Marsh @waltermarsh.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Some nice mail from the UK — I am much more depressed about AI since writing this one, but still a fun profile of Laurie Anderson

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