I lived in the UK from 1997-2005 and it was during this time that I first started writing. I had some early publication successes with a couple of short stories while there and I flirted with writing novels, not publishable ones but they were all part of the long apprenticeship that writing is and seems to remain. University of Queensland Press announced last week that they have sold both of my Australian novels – The Geography of Friendship, released last week, and Grace’s Table (2014) – to UK publisher Legend Press, to be published in the UK and Ireland in 2019. To have my writing returned to the site of where I had my earliest naïve and clumsy aspirations to be a novelist feels all the sweeter.
