Dear Readers, I hope everyone is well. I’m writing this on a beautiful spring morning here in Melbourne. I truly feel like the blossom on the trees has to bode for better days for the world. I am thinking of all of my readers, no matter where you are. I love hearing from you, and… Read more
I’m absolutely delighted to share the cover of the new Bookouture edition of my book, Beyond the Horizon. This book is deeply personal for me, as my mother was in the Women’s Australian Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War, and Beyond the Horizon is set around the incredible Women’s Air Force Service Pilots… Read more
I’m completely delighted to share the cover of the new Polish edition of Paris Time Capsule, that has just released with my Polish publishers, Prószyński, one of the major publishers in Poland, who publish much women’s commercial fiction. I’m in love with the gorgeous cover design, and I hope that this is something cheerful and beautiful… Read more
As I’m editing my sixth novel, which has nothing to do with anything in the title above, I find myself asking, what is it that the three women who inspired my first five novels have in common with each other, if anything at all? Martha de Florian was a Belle Epoque courtesan whose apartment in… Read more
In The Things We Don’t Say, Emma Temple grows up in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century London in a tall house near Kensington Gardens. Stifled by the atmosphere in the Victorian household, yet blessed with a curious upbringing in which her father, a literary biographer and scholar believes in the education of women, but only… Read more
My novels are becoming such profound journeys. Each of them is set in a place, in a time that inspires me. I find myself overwhelmed by the true stories that incite the books. It’s a case of becoming so immersed in what really happened, in the people and their worlds, that I start to wonder… Read more
So thrilled to share the release this week of the German translation of FROM A PARIS BALCONY. It is called LOUISA’S VERMACHTNIS. Thank you to the publishers, translator and to everyone who put in such a tremendous effort to get this story into Germany. I appreciate it. xx
I am delighted to let you all know that I’ll be launching SECRET SHORES at the Melbourne Writer’s Festival. I’ll be in conversation with the lovely Gabrielle Ryan from Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre on August 27th at 1pm. There will be a signing afterwards… I can’t wait to introduce you to this new novel and will… Read more
I’m thrilled to share that the Italian edition of THE HOUSE BY THE LAKE is now available in bookstores in Italy. Thank you to the publishers of that edition, Newton Compton, for putting together such a beautiful edition of the book. I am delighted that Anna, Max, Wil and Isabelle will be travelling to Italy-… Read more
Sharing some book club questions for From a Paris Balcony, as requested by a reader today… Parisian courtesans during the Belle Epoque are generally accepted to have been some of the first women to have management of their own lives. The issue of courtesans also highlighted the dual attitudes toward women at the time, and… Read more