In eighteenth-century Venice, a young girl did something almost unthinkable: she spoke out about sexual abuse. Against the odds, her testimony resulted in a landmark legal victory that challenged the conventions of the day. Centuries later, this extraordinary true story inspired Christine Balint’s fourth novel, A Single Witness.
Langwarrin-based author Jodie Fitzsimons spent years navigating the kind of obstacles every aspiring writer knows all too well.
At 16 years old Colleen Callander stood outside a Sportsgirl store in Geelong, convinced she didn’t belong. “I didn’t even have the confidence to walk in as a shopper,” she recalls. Fast forward to today, and that same woman has become one of Australia’s most influential CEOs, a bestselling author, and the founder of ‘Mentor Me Women’.
Mount Martha resident, author, and human rights lawyer and advocate Scott Leckie has spent his life pushing boundaries. Over the years, he has written 26 books, many of which discuss housing rights and land solutions for climate displacement. His work has helped shape international policy, including UN resolutions, guiding principles, and judicial decisions.
Despite having a Ned Kelly Award under his belt, national recognition, and publishing deals, Brendan James Murray has chosen to stay in the classroom at Frankston High School, teaching English and English Literature to teenagers.
When bestselling Australian author Kylie Ladd needed a fictional house with six bedrooms for her latest novel, The Mix-Up, the answer came naturally. Portsea was the obvious answer,”.
Award-winning Frankston author Irma Gold takes her readers into exotic worlds that they may never experience for themselves.
When a friend, who was buying LSD from the notorious Silk Road site on the dark web, showed peninsula-based lawyer turned journalist Eileen Ormsby how to download the dark web browser, she…
Michelle Scheibner calls herself the ‘Identity Activator’ because she knows from personal experience what it’s like to feel that you lack an identity. After the death of her partner, she needed to…