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London-born Australian Lesley Truffle has travelled extensively and worked in London and Japan. At present she’s living in a garret in Melbourne. She’s worked as a secondary teacher, photographer, hotel maid, fringe actor and in art galleries, bars, nightclubs and other jobs too ghastly to mention.

While exhibiting her art photography in Melbourne galleries Lesley realised she wanted to create imaginary stories and interior monologues, and returned to writing.

Her fiction piece 'A Man of Fashion' was published in 'Scarlet Stiletto:The Second Cut' in 2011, and 'Memoir of a Trollop' was performed by Baggage Productions: Madwomen Monologues in 2013. 'Memoir of a Trollop' will be performed again as part of the Madwomen Monologues retrospective ...more

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It’s been a particularly lovely autumn this year but now the days are getting shorter. Winter is coming this week. When I lived in Melbourne I enjoyed taking the city bound tram and heading off very early to work on golden autumn mornings. There weren’t many passengers on the first leg of the trip into town.

Usually the time we hit St Kilda Road and were heading down Swanston S

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Lesley Truffle rated a book really liked it Love, Pamela by Pamela Anderson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Pamela Anderson was enormously popular in the 1990's. The Canadian born actress appeared on television in 'Baywatch' dashing about in a splendid red swimming costume. She also featured in Hugh Hefner's 'Playboy' magazine. Then she seemed to disappear. ...more
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Lesley Truffle rated a book really liked it A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage (A Serial Killer's Guide to Marriage #1) by Asia Mackay	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
This humorous novel has similarities to the 2005 film starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie titled, 'Mr and Mrs Smith'. The movie is essentially about a married, wealthy couple who struggle to keep their marriage alive until they discover they're bot ...more
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Lesley Truffle rated a book it was amazing I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Dodie Smith's novel, published in 1949 (English edition), is narrated by 17 year old Cassandra Mortmain. She and her family live in a decaying castle in Suffolk UK in the 1930's. Their poverty stems from her father's inability to build on his initial ...more
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Lesley Truffle rated a book liked it Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
The author blends fiction with memoir in a short – possibly experimental – novella. The story takes place in 1986 Melbourne and is primarily about obsessive young love. St Kilda in the 80's is depicted as it was prior to becoming somewhat gentrified. ...more
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Lesley Truffle rated a book really liked it Charlie’s Good Tonight: The Life, the Times, and the Rolling Stones: The Authorized Biography of Charlie Watts – The Story of Rock's Most Celebrated Drummer by Paul Sexton	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Charlie Watts authorized biography (with Paul Sexton) explores his mastery of drumming across many different musical styles. Watts was much more than the long time drummer of the Rolling Stones and featured with many of the Jazz greats over a period o ...more
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Lesley Truffle rated a book really liked it An Excellent Thing in a Woman (Sparks and Bainbridge, #7) by Allison Montclair	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Another amateur sleuth novel in Allison Montclair's series 'Sparks & Bainbridge Mysteries'. The novel is cosy crime fiction with something of an edge - mainly due to fascinating psychopath villains and the gloomier aspects of women's lives in postwar ...more
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Lesley Truffle rated a book it was amazing Love From Venice: A golden summer on the Grand Canal by Gill Johnson	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Gill Johnson’s biography is set in Venice in 1957. At the age of twenty-five she was mortified by her boyfriend’s decision to travel on his own to Europe to further his career. Not wanting to be left behind in England she applied for a post as a nann ...more
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Lesley Truffle rated a book it was amazing Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Craig Brown’s book examines Princess Margaret, the Countess of Snowdon, through the eyes of her groupies, lovers, detractors, sycophants and servants. HRH comes off as a rather unpleasant member of the royal family. Namely because in her early twenti ...more
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Lesley Truffle rated a book really liked it The Sphinx: The Life of Gladys Deacon – Duchess of Marlborough by Hugo Vickers	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Gladys Deacon, the sphinx in Hugo Vickers biography, made the fatal mistake at the age of 14 of becoming obsessed with the quest of marrying the 9th Duke of Marlborough. It didn’t bother her that the Duke had recently married American heiress Consuel ...more
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“Apparently something nasty happened to him in the woodshed when he was a child and subsequently he’s always been emotionally fragile.’ Cat stood up and slammed her fist on the table.”
― Lesley Truffle, Hotel Du Barry

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