Truganini: Journey Through the Apocalypse, by my client, the eminent historian Dr Cassandra Pybus, will be available next week. Her biography of Truganini, erroneously known in the popular imagination as 'the last Tasmanian' of her race, is a significant work of scholarship that is also a deeply personal reckoning with…
There are few things more satisfying than seeing your book published at last. Holding a hard copy in your hands, seeing it on the shelf of a bookshop, or listed with a thumbnail cover image at an online store - there's no taking away the enormous achievement of creating, revising, and…
To see my client Tim Elliott's memoir Farewell to the Father make the cover of The Good Weekend last weekend (left), as well as this extract on news.com.au, was pretty exciting, to say the least. I've already received several emails from people who read one of the extracts, bought and read the…
Fairfax journalist Tim Elliott's memoir, Farewell to the Father, will be published in April. The gorgeous cover speaks to the richness, power and detail of Elliott's recollections of growing up with his brilliant but manic-depressive and suicidal father, Max. It is a book that explores the pain and joy of a son's love…