Liz Byrski

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Liz Byrski


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London, The United Kingdom
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Liz Byrski is a writer and broadcaster with more than 40 years experience in the British and Australian media. She is the author of eleven non-fiction books and five novels, and her work has been published in national and international newspapers and magazines.

In the nineties Liz was a broadcaster and executive producer with ABC Radio in Perth and later an advisor to a minister in the Western Australian State Government; she now lectures in Professional and Creative Writing at Curtin University of Technology in Perth, and has PhD in writing with a focus on feminist popular fiction.

Liz was born in London and spent most of her childhood in Sussex. As an only child she spent a lot of time alone, much of it buried in books. She began her workin
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A Month of Sundays

3.89 avg rating — 2,570 ratings — published 2018 — 7 editions
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At the End of the Day

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The Woman Next Door

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Gang of Four

3.88 avg rating — 946 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions
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Family Secrets

3.89 avg rating — 795 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions
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Last Chance Cafe

3.80 avg rating — 743 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions
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In the Company of Strangers

3.99 avg rating — 637 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions
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Belly Dancing for Beginners

3.91 avg rating — 647 ratings — published 2006 — 5 editions
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Food, Sex and Money

3.98 avg rating — 627 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions
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Bad Behaviour

3.80 avg rating — 606 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions
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“war historian Paul Fussell suggests that in World War II heavy drinking was the answer to fear, boredom and the terrible damage to the sense of identity experienced by so many combatants. Drunkenness, he writes, did for the men of this war what drugs did for the next generation in Vietnam.”
Liz Byrski, In Love and War: Nursing Heroes

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