Susan Johnson was shortlisted for the 1991 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for her novel Flying Lessons, shortlisted for the 1994 National Book Council’s Banjo Award for the novel A Big Life and shortlisted for the National Biography Award 2000 for her memoir A Better Woman. Her other books include Hungry Ghosts, Messages from Chaos, Women Love Sex (editor and contributor) and Life in Seven Mistakes. The Broken Book was shortlisted for the 2005 Nita B Kibble Award, the Best Fiction Book section of the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, the Westfield/Waverley Library Literary Award, and the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal Award for an Outstanding Australian Literary Work. Her last novel, My Hundred Lovers, was published in 2012 to critical acclaim.

In 2010 she returned from ten years in London to live in Brisbane. She is a feature writer at Qweekend magazine.

ALSO BY SUSAN JOHNSON

FICTION

Latitudes: New Writing from the North (co-editor, 1986)

Messages from Chaos (1987)

Flying Lessons (1990)

A Big Life (1993)

Women Love Sex (editor, 1996)

Hungry Ghosts (1996)

The Broken Book (2004)

Life in Seven Mistakes (2008)

My Hundred Lovers (2012)

NON-FICTION

A Better Woman (1999)

On Beauty (2009)