A 12-year-old boy has set a world record after discovering the largest European wasp nest on a property Down Under. Jordan Waddingham scoured through bushland at Karoola, north east of Launceston in Tasmania to unravel the plague of wasps after his mother Stephanie offered him $20 to locate the nest.
bildungsroman (plural bildungsromans or bildungsromane) A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.
If we follow Mikhail Bakhtin, in his account of the evolution of the Bildungsroman from its ancient origins to the nineteenth-century, we are taken to a point where the distinction between the Bildungsroman and the historical novel blurs, even to a point where the two might be said to converge.