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Lisa Walker

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Fiction, Suspense, Young Adult

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Lisa writes fiction for adults and young adults. Her eighth novel, and her first psychological suspense, 'The Pact' will come out in January 2026. Other novels are - 'Trouble is My Business', 'The Girl with the Gold Bikini', 'Paris Syndrome', 'Melt', 'Sex, Lies and Bonsai', ‘Liar Bird’, and ‘Arkie’s Pilgrimage to the Next Big Thing'.

Lisa's half-hour radio play 'Baddest Backpackers' aired on ABC Radio National in 2008. She was a finalist in the ABC Short Story Award and winner of the Byron Bay Writers Festival short story award. Her writing has been published in The Age, The Guardian, The Big Issue, The Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review and the Review of Australian Fiction.

Lisa grew up in Fiji and spent her teenage years in Brisbane. S ...more

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November Readers’ Club – Writers writing about writers

Books with writers as protagonists can be controversial. Are they just a lazy attempt for the author to avoid doing any research? Maybe a little. But on the other hand, aren’t writers with all their ambitions, envy, and obsessions entertaining? Obviously, I think so, anyway. That’s why I wrote a novel about a group of writers.

Here are four novels about writers I’ve enjoyed recently:

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Lisa Walker’s books

Average rating: 3.51 · 963 ratings · 265 reviews · 10 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Pact 3.44 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2026 — 3 editions	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
	Sex Lies and Bonsai 3.47 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	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
	Paris Syndrome 3.41 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	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
	Arkie's Pilgrimage to the Next Big Thing 3.51 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	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 Girl with the Gold Bikini (An Olivia Grace Mystery, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	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
	Liar Bird 3.47 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	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
	Trouble is my Business (An Olivia Grace Mystery, #2) 3.78 avg rating — 32 ratings — 2 editions	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
	Melt 3.81 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	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
	Sugarbaby / Blossom (RAF Volume 2: Issue 5) by Lisa Walker (Goodreads Author), Venero Armanno (Goodreads Author) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012	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
	Review of Australian Fiction (Volume 16, Issue 5) by Lisa Walker (Goodreads Author), Emma Ashmere 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings	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

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Lisa Walker and 2 other people liked Cherie's review of The Road: "3.5 stars Weird little mystery with some Aboriginal supernatural happenings. Various people travelling in different directions find themselves trapped on a stretch of road and can't leave (like they are on a loop). They meet up and try to solve a myst" Read more of this review »
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Lisa’s Quotes

“Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?”
― Don Marquis, Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers

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“Great is the power of steady misrepresentation”
― Charles Darwin

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“The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost can’t say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. That’s about it. Right now I'm living in that hope, running down its hallway and touching the walls on both sides.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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