by Virginia Lloyd | Feb 27, 2020 | Blog, Client book news and links
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...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 17, 2017 | Blog, Client book news and links
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...
by Virginia Lloyd | May 3, 2016 | Blog, Client book news and links, Memoir
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...
by Virginia Lloyd | Mar 30, 2016 | Blog, Client book news and links, Editorial Development
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,...
by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 5, 2015 | Blog, Client book news and links
[F]irst novels that reshape familiar historical material with originality and dash; sustain their strange tales with assurance; move confidently between countries and eras, intimate and national histories; offer two more indications of the present and future health of...
by Virginia Lloyd | Sep 6, 2015 | Blog, Client book news and links
Here’s my client Jenny Ackland’s wrap-up of the launch of her novel The Secret Son a few days ago. It was a large crowd at the Bella Union in Melbourne. Jenny did a very smart thing by wearing a flaming red dress so everyone could see her. There are...
