May 22, 2017

The Alphabet Sisters cover stories

My forthcoming novel The Trip of a Lifetime is the third of my novels to feature Lola Quinlan and her family (though I promise it is a standalone story if…

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May 18, 2017

The Trip of a Lifetime July tour

My big thanks to the booksellers & librarians around Australia who are already promoting the talks & events I’ll be doing during my July tour for my new novel The…

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May 11, 2017

The Quinlan family tree

Penguin Books Australia have started the countdown to The Trip of a Lifetime with this great animation of the Quinlan family tree. I’m counting down too! Watch the family tree…

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May 8, 2017

Announcing my July tour!

I’m delighted to be able to share this link to the Events page, with the details of my July Australian book tour for The Trip of a Lifetime. I’ll be…

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May 5, 2017

New look Quinlan covers

It’s now just nine weeks until my latest novel The Trip of a Lifetime is published in Australia and NZ. Yesterday I was thrilled to receive advance copies of the…

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May 3, 2017

My cover comes to life

My beautiful new book cover has come to life over on Instagram! Thank you so much for the clever animation, Penguin Random House Australia. The Trip of a Lifetime will…

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March 11, 2017

Australian Authors in the spotlight

I’m delighted to be talked about in this list of ‘Australian Authors Everyone’s Talking About‘. Thank you very much, Better Reading!

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February 9, 2017

Announcing: THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME

I’m thrilled to be able to emerge from my attic and – finally – share this news: my new novel, called THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME, will be published by…

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February 2, 2017

Hello from the Gillespies in Latvia

Delighted to take delivery this morning of the Latvian hardback edition of Hello from the Gillespies. I’m even more pleased to see that not only have the title and text…

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January 31, 2017

A County Meath Talk

A warm invitation to any of you in or near County Meath here in Ireland – I’m giving a talk about books, writing and my love of libraries in the…

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