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Amanda Hampson

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Melbourne-based author, Amanda Hampson has been writing professionally for more than 30 years and is the award-winning author of nine novels: The Olive Sisters, Two for the Road, The French Perfumer, The Yellow Villa, Sixty Summers, Lovebirds, The Tea Ladies, The Cryptic Clue and The Deadly Dispute.

A runaway bestseller, The Tea Ladies won the 2024 Danger Awards for Best Crime Fiction and was Shortlisted for 2024 Davitt Awards Best Adult Crime & 2024 Ned Kelly Awards Best Fiction.


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Amanda Hampson I make myself write 500 words a day. It's a habit that overcomes strenuous resistance - it just has to be done. Even if my mind is completely blank an…moreI make myself write 500 words a day. It's a habit that overcomes strenuous resistance - it just has to be done. Even if my mind is completely blank and nothing worth writing presents itself, one little seed may sprout. Actually, sometimes a kind of creative starvation occurs that forces the brain to pull out something unexpected.(less)
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Travels with ‘Sixty Summers’

It’s been a busy few months getting out with ‘Sixty Summers’ and talking to lots of readers. As well as a number of venues around Sydney, I did a tour to the Central West – Bathurst, Orange, Dubbo, Parkes, Mudgee and Grenfell – where it was mostly freezing cold. Now I’m headed up the East Coast from Forster to Port Macquarie, Grafton, Lismore, Ballina, Helensvale, Southport, Highfields, Carindale,

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