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Liz Byrski
What does it mean to grow older?
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When Mim Squires and Mathias Vander are stranded together on a disrupted flight home to Perth, they are surprised to find that they have much in common. Mim owns a…
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Twenty Australian women from widely different backgrounds, races, beliefs and identities take up the challenge of writing about rage.
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Why are we so obsessed with staying young?
In a culture that advocates the pursuit of endless youth and physical beauty how can we embrace the reality, the pleasures and…
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Margot detests shopping malls. Any distraction is welcome, and the woman who has chained herself to the escalator, shouting about the perils of consumerism, is certainly that. She recognises Dot…
In the aftermath of the Battle of Britain, airmen filled a small Sussex town where pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe established revolutionary surgical and therapeutic treatments. For the child Liz…
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How do you get your life back on track after a sudden and traumatic event?
Is it ever too late to make amends and start afresh?
At eighteen Liz was separated from her first true love. Across the miles she dreamt of the day he would return to marry her, but fate had other plans and…
Gayle and Sonya are a study in contrasts: one reserved and cautious, the other confident and outspoken. But their very different lives will be turned upside down when they impulsively…
Ruby and Cat’s friendship was forged on an English dockside over sixty years ago when, both fearful, they boarded a ship bound for Australia. It was a friendship that was…
Over the years, the residents of Emerald Street have become more than just neighbours, they have built lasting friendships over a drink and chat on their back verandahs. Now a…
From ‘the doyenne of women’s fiction’: four women from an online book club spend a month in the Blue Mountains reading and talking about books.
They have been close friends for almost two decades, supporting each other through personal and professional crises parents dying, children leaving home, house moves, job changes, political activism, diets and…
At eighteen Liz was separated from her first true love. She dreamt of the day he would return to marry her, but fate had other plans. Thirty-seven years later, she…
A belly dancing class will change Gayle and Sonya forever…
One mistake can change a life forever.
The ninth novel from Liz Byrski, Australia’s ‘doyenne of women’s fiction’, takes us to Emerald Street, where the neighbours are about to start a new chapter in their lives…
In times of distress, it can be easier to be among strangers - a novel of friendship and discovery on a lavender farm.
Close friends for almost two decades, the ‘gang of four’ are now all fifty-something, successful … and restless.
For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Simone have been in an online book club, but they have never met face to face. Until now ...
Determined to enjoy…
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When Heather Delaney is injured in a shocking act of violence, her life is thrown off course. Struggling to return to work, she is haunted by the incident. Was it…
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Purple Prose features new works by Amanda Curtin, Lily Chan, Hanifa Deen, Sarah Drummond, Lucy Dougan, Tracy Farr, Deborah Hunn, Natasha Lester, Toni Jordan, Anne Manne, Rosemary Stevens, Annamaria Weldon…
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Zoe is living a conventional suburban life in Fremantle. She works, she gardens and she loves her supportive husband, Archie, and their three children. But the arrival of a new…
