book editor, bibliophile + word nerd
Talk about H is for Hard. If this wasn’t one of my book club reads I think I would have given up, but I am glad I persevered. It is not an easy book to read but the words on the page are simply beautiful and I now know more about goshawks than I thought ...
Courtesy UQP 5 Ways to Carry a Goat by Australian travel writer Ben Groundwater is a blogger’s world tour of 14 countries solely through the kindness of strangers. Groundwater writes Fairfax Media’s popular travel blog The Backpacker and has thousands of readers scattered around the globe, all of them faceless. The premise for this book came from the idea ...
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 ...
While not new to the bookstores, at present the plight of refugees is in our news on a daily basis, and this award-winning memoir is a timely reminder that not everyone has the freedom to travel at will. The Happiest Refugee is an amazing story of one family's escape from war-torn Vietnam and the struggles ...
If a genie suddenly appeared in my life and granted me one wish (and I couldn’t choose world peace or the demolition of poverty) then my wish would be to write like Tim Winton. What a master he is! I picked up this slim memoir for $1.00 at a school fair recently and it will go ...
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 ...
I am an Australian freelance editor, proofreader and blogger with extensive experience working with books, magazines, newspapers, websites, social media and academic journals.
