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Getting There

Sue relates her early adventures from travelling in asia, europe, central and south america and her favourite  – africa – a continent she traversed from west to east in a truck and from south to north by the power of her thumb..

Welcome to the Outback

With six outback related books under her belt, it was only natural that sue would write about her experiences travelling the dusty roads and endless skies of a country the same size as the usa but with less that one-tenth of the population., previous project travel features, next project life ....

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5 Ladies and a Bus Called Bertha

Join the ladies as they set off on their travels looking for fun and adventure, spiced with a little mischief.

Meet their old friends Fruity and Fabulous, aka Eric and George, Freddie the Fence and Annie, the farmer’s wife. Enjoy their tussles with authority in the person of Amanda, the care home manager, and Father Matthew, vicar of St Jude’s and eco warrior. Not to mention their occasional brush with the law.

Age is no barrier to having a good time and remember, it’s not just the young who want to have fun!

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Sue Williams (writer)

Sue Williams (born 1959) is a journalist, author, travel writer and university lecturer.

• 3.1 Non-fiction
• 3.2 Fiction
• 3.3 Children’s Books
• 4 Critical studies and reviews of Williams’ work
• 5 Awards and nominations
• 6 External Links
• 7 References
• 8 External links
• Literary career

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Sue Williams grew up in Essex, England, just outside London, and attended Durham University where she obtained a BA joint Hons in economics and politics, and later studied in Portsmouth for her journalism NCTJ certificate. Her first journalism job was with the Express & Star Group, the UK’s biggest independent newspaper group, based in the West Midlands of England. She travelled for many years around the world, before settling in Auckland, New Zealand, where she worked as a journalist for the Auckland Sun newspaper, and then as a news producer for the national TV broadcaster, TVNZ. Sue moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1989 and worked at the Daily Telegraph as a journalist and columnist, with her own TV media show on SBS TV. Later, she worked at the magazine company Australian Consolidated Press, then at The Australian, then the Sun Herald. In 2001, she became a freelance, working for all Australia’s major newspapers and magazines, and regularly appearing on radio and TV.

Literary Career

Sue has written both non-fiction and fiction books for such publishers as HarperCollins [1] , Penguin Australia [2] and Allen & Unwin [3] . They include full biographies, co-authored memoirs and, more recently, historical fiction.

• Powering Up (Pan Macmillan, 1994)
• Getting There: Journeys of an Accidental Adventurer (New Holland, 2001)
• Love, Obsession, Secrets & Lies (with others) (HarperCollins, 2001)
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• Apartment Living (ABC Books, 2004)
• Death of a Doctor: How the Medical Profession Turned on One of Their Own (Allen & Unwin, 2005)
• World Beyond Tears (Harper Collins, 2005) [4]
• And Then The Darkness (ABC Books/HarperCollins, 2006) [5]
• Women of the Outback (Penguin, 2008) [6]
• Love Is In The Air (HarperCollins, 2009) [7]
• Outback Spirit (Michael Joseph, 2010) [8]
• No Time For Fear (Penguin, 2011)
• Welcome to the Outback (Michael Joseph, 2012) [9]
• Left for Dead (Penguin, 2013) [10]
• The Last Showman: The Life and Times of an Outback Tent-Boxing Legend (Penguin, 2014) [11]
• Gene Genius (HarperCollins, 2015) [12]
• Growing Great Kids (HarperCollins, 2015) [13]
• Healing Lives (Pan Macmillan, 2020) [14]
• Daughter of the River Country (Echo Publishing, 2021) [15]
• Under Her Skin: The Life and work of Professor Fiona Wood (Allen & Unwin 2022) [16]
• Elizabeth & Elizabeth (Allen & Unwin, 2020) [17]
• That Bligh Girl (Allen & Unwin 2023) [18]

Children’s Books

• Everest Dreaming (Benchmark Education, 2019) [19]

Critical studies and reviews of Williams’ work

• Review of Elizabeth & Elizabeth www.carpelibrum.net/2021/04/review-elizabeth-and-elizabeth-by-sue-williams.html
• Review of Elizabeth & Elizabeth by Meg Keneally in the Weekend Australian.
• Review of Under Her Skin www.cindylspear.com/news/review-of-under-her-skin-by-sue-williams
• Review of Under Her Skin lsj.com.au/articles/book-reviews-a-trio-of-summer-reads/
• Review of Healing Lives (Paperbark Words) [20]
• Elizabeth & Elizabeth reviewed by Meg Keneally (Weekend Australian, March 13, 2021)
• Shortlisted for the international 2006 Gold Dagger Award for the world’s best crime non-fiction for And Then The Darkness [21] .
• Shortlisted for Ned Kelly Award for And Then The Darkness .
• Shortlisted for Australian Christian Book of the Year Award 2021 for Healing Lives

External Links

• Sue Williams’ website [1]
• Sue Williams at Penguin [2]
• Sue Williams at HarperCollins [3]
• Sue Williams at Traveller with the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age [4]
• Sue Williams at agency Curtis Brown [5]
• Rocks and Hard Places [22]
• Sue Williams explains her love of the world map (article in SMH) [23]
• Astonishing yet mostly ignored women (Australian Financial Review) [24]
• Behind the Pen with Sue Williams [25]
• The Finer Things in Travel: Women in the Brave New World [26]
• Daughter of the River Country (Central Coast News) [27]
• ↑ "Sue Williams" . www.penguin.com.au . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "Allen & Unwin - Australia" . www.allenandunwin.com . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "World Beyond Tears" . HarperCollins Australia . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "And Then the Darkness" . HarperCollins Australia . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "Women of the Outback by Sue Williams" . www.penguin.com.au . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "Love Is In The Air" . HarperCollins Australia . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "Outback Spirit by Sue Williams" . www.penguin.com.au . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "Welcome to the Outback by Sue Williams" . www.penguin.com.au . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "Left for Dead by Laurence Barlow" . www.penguin.com.au . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "The Last Showman: The life and times of an Outback tent-boxing legend by Fred Brophy" . www.penguin.com.au . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "GENE GENIUS" . HarperCollins Australia . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "Growing Great Kids" . HarperCollins Australia . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "Healing Lives - Pan Macmillan AU" . Pan Macmillan Australia . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "Daughter of the River Country - Dianne O'Brien with Sue Williams" . Echo Publishing . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "Everest Dreaming - 6-Pack" . www.benchmarkeducation.com . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "Healing Lives by Sue Williams" . 2020-10-20 . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CWA_Gold_Dagger_for_Non-Fiction
• ↑ "Rocks and hard places" . www.penguin.com.au . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ Gripper, Ali (2015-11-14). "Favourite things: Sue Williams explains her love of the world map" . The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "The history of astonishing, yet mostly ignored, women" . Australian Financial Review . 2021-02-05 . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ Writes, Theresa Smith (2021-01-17). "Behind the Pen with Sue Williams" . Theresa Smith Writes . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ Wallace, Sue (2021-02-18). "Women in the brave new world: Meet the writer behind the new book - Elizabeth & Elizabeth" . The Finer Things . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .
• ↑ "Daughter of the River Country" . Central Coast News . 2021-07-15 . Retrieved 2023-03-26 .

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Sue Williams is a journalist, reporter, and travel writer based in Australia. She has written for various publications such as The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and Commercial Real Estate Australia. With a focus on real estate, business, and travel, Sue's articles cover a wide range of topics and provide insightful perspectives on current trends and issues.

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Sue Williams is an award-winning journalist and columnist who's written for all of Australia's leading newspapers and magazines, as well as having her own opinion segment on a TV show. Born in England, she has also worked in print and TV in the UK and New Zealand and spent many years travelling extensively around the world.

She has written a number of best-selling biographies, including Mean Streets, Kind Heart: The Father Chris Riley Story, on the Catholic priest who's dedicated his life to helping streetkids, Peter Ryan: The Inside Story on the controversial former NSW Police Commissioner, and Father Bob about Australia's highest profile campaigner for social justice.

Despite being a confirmed city-slicker, she's also written four immensely popular books about the Australian Outback. Her most recent is Heroines of the Outback, while the previous in the series was a travel book about her own personal adventures exploring the Outback, which included a fight in an Outback boxing tent, a cattle drive - her first time on horseback - and a trek through one of the most remote stretches of wilderness in the world.

Her first travel book was Getting There: Journeys of an Accidental Adventurer, about her time travelling the world alone with a backpack.

Crime-writing is also a passion, and she wrote And Then The Darkness about the Peter Falconio killing, a book that was short-listed for the best true-crime book of the year in the international Gold Dagger Awards. In 2013, she wrote Left For Dead, about a policewoman's heart-wrenching fight for life after a brutal attack.

Other books include Love, Obsession, Secrets & Lies, Death of a Doctor, a motivational women's health guide, Powering Up, and Apartment Living: The Complete Guide to Buying, Renting, Surviving and Thriving In Apartments.

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