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Based on the South Coast, just outside Sydney, I have worked as a journalist for the past 14 years, mainly writing about advertising, media and marketing.

I've lived in Japan (golf caddy), London (backpacker/part-time bookseller at Charing Cross Road Books), Vietnam (PR) and New York (journalist).

I have a Master's of Letters in Creative Writing from Sydney University and spent a fabulous summer studying magazine and book publishing at New York University.

Friends & Pho is my first novel and was shortlisted for the 2008 Varuna/Harper Collins Manuscript Development Award. I'm currently working on my second novel.






favourite books

I sway between chick-lit and Booker Prize winners. I particularly love novels set in exotic locations and travel memoirs.

Some all-time favourites:
Midnight's Children
Bel Canto
House of Spirits
Love in the Time of Cholera
Middlesex
Mister Pip
Cloudstreet
A Suitable Boy
A Movable Feast

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Friends & Pho

Heather Jacobs

Cultures clash as two young Australians, Lily and Olivia, run the first Western PR company in the newly hip Saigon.


It's 1997 and the Americans and French are invading Vietnam again and the Brits and Aussies are along for the ride. As the multinationals set up shop, Olivia, a 26-year-old PR executive, is there to guide the way.

Lily, a Vietnamese refugee who fled to Sydney as a kid, has returned to Saigon – ‘no one calls it Ho Chi Minh City anymore, darling’ -- to run the first Western PR company, Konnect.

As Olivia falls under the spell of brash Saigon, in steps Scott, a charming American foreign correspondent. However, Olivia's path to true love is rocky, especially with him always being called off to interview G8 leaders. And then there's Pierre, the playboy heir to French fashion label, Joe Public, who Olivia thinks is her dream guy. When Pierre's accused of running a sweatshop, things really get messy.

 

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I wrote 827 days ago

Hi Jo, Well, I normally steer clear of books about serial killers, but this one had me hooked! Poor Chelsea - that Wesley sure is one creepy fellow and to think she was going to marry him and still holds a flame for him while he's stalking her and killing off look-a-likes to practice for his finale... view book

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Hi SJ, Who could fail to be charmed by this with sentences like, “My mother could hear angels. She would tell me about them often and for a while I told her it was just that humming noise that ears make when they are not busy.” Backed! Cheers, Heather Friends & Pho view book

I wrote 837 days ago

Hi Greg, I suffer that – a sort of restlessness, a paradoxical attraction towards the wide world mingled with a forlorn yearning for home. I love going overseas to live; the adventure of it all, and the excitement, the fish-out-of-water feeling, yet at the same time it’s hard to settle somewhere ne... view book

I wrote 840 days ago

Hey B.J, I love the snarly tone of the defence attorney as she says, “So you wrote this, didn’t you – this drivel about being kidnapped and held in a closet.” Neale Donald Walsch gets God talking to him and a bestselling series, Conversations with God, that takes him off the streets and makes him ... view book

I wrote 842 days ago

Hi Bob, You've effectively taken us through corporate England, from the thrill of the stockmarket floor (people like Billy have a lot to answer for in the current climate) to a photo shoot in a dusty bookstore in Charring Cross Road to the impersonal offices of a PR firm who's client list goes furt... view book

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