book editor, bibliophile + word nerd
The List of My Desires I chose this book for our final book club meet in 2013 for two reasons: it was slim read and everyone is busy leading up to Christmas; and I wanted a book that would open up a messy debate over dinner and drinks. I wanted to know what my friends would ...
Courtesy Fremantle Press For anyone who has ever been in love then had their heart broken, Australian author Liz Byrski’s memoir of love found and love lost will strike a chord. Remember Me At the age of 17, reknown author Liz Byrski (then Liz Beard) is living at home in Sussex and working in London when she meets and falls instantly in ...
Courtesy Pan Macmillan When a female politician is shot as she leaves her workplace, her life and the lives of the people closest to her are blown apart. Heather Delaney survives the shooting but it is the repercussions of the crime that is the real story behind Liz Byrski’s fourth novel Trip of a Lifetime. Trip of a Lifetime The tension builds when ...
Fire: a collection of stories, poems and visual images Edited by Delys Bird "A superb and necessary anthology of literature, images and commentary on our relationship to fire in its many manifestations. The works collected here are confronting, challenging, vital and also healing. We witness the destructive effects of fire, but also the visionary and pragmatic role ...
Courtesy of Penguin Inspired by the legendary music of Glenn Miller and the big band jazz of the 1940s, In the Mood by Laura Bloom tackles love and life in post-war Sydney. In the Mood The novel opens in 1946 with Robert Brooker returning home from the battlefields of New Guinea to a wife he hasn’t see for ...
Courtesy Hodder Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, page 273 Natalie and I are in the mangy TV room watching The Love Boat. We’ve dragged the wing chairs up on either side of the Christmas tree and are reaching over to pick through its branches in pursuit of any candy canes that remain. Most of them have ...
Western Australian author Liz Byrski’s new novel Last Chance Café looks at growing old in a new light. We are a society obsessed with staying young and beautiful and rarely does literature tackle the right to grow old and enjoy the process. A round of applause for Byrski. The book is filled with some wonderful characters and ...
I am an Australian freelance editor, proofreader and blogger with extensive experience working with books, magazines, newspapers, websites, social media and academic journals.
