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Alison Ripley Cubitt

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Born

in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia

Website

https://lambertnagle.com

Twitter

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Thrillers, Nonfiction, Memoir

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June 2012

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Alison Ripley Cubitt started her writing career at age nine by winning first prize in a writing competition with a pony book.

Some years later, she left New Zealand with the ability to make a white sauce without a recipe, carry three plates at once, and ride a horse (though not at the same time).

Dreaming of becoming a copywriter, she landed a job as the receptionist in an advertising agency in Sydney that made the TV series Mad Men’s work culture look tame.

But the lure of London proved too hard to resist, and she left Australia. Landing in London at the right time, she got her break in television production and lasted 15 years, working on Channel 4’s anarchic The Big Breakfast and at Walt Disney and the BBC.

For the past four years, she has ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 626 ratings · 230 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	Revolution Earth (Stephen Connor, #1) by Lambert Nagle, Alison Ripley Cubitt (Goodreads Author) 3.53 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2012 — 6 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
	Capital Crimes: With a foreword from Peter James by Douglas Stewart (Goodreads Author), Charlie Flowers, J.L. Merrow (Goodreads Author) 3.93 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 2015 — 6 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 Accidental Plus One: Travel Tales from a Trailing Spouse (The Accidental Plus One Series) 4.22 avg rating — 88 ratings — 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
	Castles in the Air: A Family Memoir of Love and Loss 3.67 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Misadventures in the Screen Trade 4.52 avg rating — 50 ratings — 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
	The Accidental Plus One Down Under : Travel Tales From a Trailing Spouse Book 2 (The Accidental Plus One Series) 4.25 avg rating — 52 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
	Buying a House in New Zealand: Find Your Perfect Home 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2016 — 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
	The Accidental Plus One Down Under: Travel Tales From a Trailing Spouse Book 2 by Alison Ripley Cubitt (Goodreads Author), Virtual Voice (Narrator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 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
	Buying a House in New Zealand 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	Finding a Home in Aotearoa New Zealand it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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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I’m delighted to welcome my guest today crime writer Eden Sharp who is busy working on Get 9 and Zero Day, Books 2 and Books 3 of her Vigilante Investigator Justice Series. Over to you, Eden. I started off by telling myself I’d write on certain days. In a spare moment, I’d plotted out my […]

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