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Victoria Book Tour – 3rd to 7th March

It’s less than a week until I head to Victoria for a book tour that’s going to take me from Shepparton, Kerang and Echuca Libraries in northern Victoria, down to Melbourne’s Frankston Library and Dymocks Camberwell’s First Tuesday Book Club in Hawthorn. I will certainly be clocking up some kms (and drinking lots of coffee)…

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Happy new year, happy news…

Hello and happy 2023! I hope that you’ve had a good break and that whatever the year ahead looks like, that it will be gentle and joyful. Those are the feelings and emotions that I’m seeking out after what feels like a gruelling couple of years; they were intense and hard work but ultimately rewarding….

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The year in books so far!

With September only a few days away I thought I had better hurry up with my blog of the most notable books of 2022 so far! It has been a fantastic year of reading with so many outstanding new releases and here are nine particularly notable ones that I can highly recommend. I don’t know…

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Esther’s Children published May 2022 by Allen & Unwin

I am excited to share the news that my fourth novel will be published by Allen & Unwin in May 2022. It’s another Second World War story and this time I have taken inspiration from the untold story of the extraordinary life of Esther Simpson, who helped rescue thousands of academic refugees from death and…

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