Books


Tiny: A memoir about love, letting go 
and a very small house (2024) is a deeply personal account of my experience of building my own tiny house in northern NSW, Australia, during the 2020-21 Covid pandemic. It's about my search for a place to call home after 25 years as a semi-nomadic travel writer, it's about finding myself, and it's about love, heartbreak and resilience. For as the tiny house was coming together, my relationship with my partner, Max, with whom I was building the tiny, was falling apart. 

Tiny was published by Hardie Grant and is available in Australia and New Zealand in all formats: print, ebook and audiobook (you can even listen for free via the BorrowBox app). As of 2025, it's also available in the UK, Europe and the US through Amazon


A month of simple Sundays
(2019) is unlike anything I've written before. It's an accidental collection of 30 prose pieces and a few short poems written on idle Sunday afternoons with a pen on paper outdoors, mostly while looking at the sea, just for me - until I decided to put them together into this little book to share.

It's illustrated by Melbourne-based artist Kia Maddock, who did many of the drawings in the windswept places where I wrote the words. (I did a few of the drawings too.) It's available as a print book direct through Blurb

Surf's Up: The Girl's Guide to Surfing
(2008) was the world's very first surfing guide for girls when it was first published in 2003 by Allen & Unwin. A US edition came out in 2005, then came a second Australian edition, fully updated in 2008, and an e-book version in 2014.

It covers everything any budding surfer girl - or any newbie surfer - needs to know about learning to surf, from getting over your fear of sharks to choosing your first surfboard, finding the right waves, paddling out and standing up. There's info on surfing etiquette, the history of women in surfing, the best yoga for surfers, stand-up paddleboarding and how to be sustainable surfer.

The 2008 Australian print edition is available from Booktopia and other online retailers in Australia, through Amazon in the UK and Europe, and by special order from all good bookstores. The 2005 US print edition is also available on amazon.com.


Adventures on Earth* (2014) is a multi-media ebook, a collection of my best-ever travel stories about low-impact adventures in dream destinations around the world, illustrated by more than 300 of my own images and a few video clips.

There's trekking in Mongolia, Madagascar and Nepal's forgotten kingdom of Mustang; sea kayaking in Papua New Guinea, the Philippines and the Arctic; expedition cruises to Kamchatka, Antarctica and the Galapagos; even trips by train and road through Tibet and Bhutan and close-to-home adventures in NZ and Australia.

Here's an excerpt: 20 must-do Adventures on Earth - new ebook goes live and a 30-second preview video on YouTube.

*Adventures on Earth was originally available on iBooks, but is sadly no longer available. I'm hoping to turn it into a big, beautiful print book sometime. Stay tuned. 


Japan: A working holiday guide (2001) was my first book, based on my experience of living and working in southern Japan for a year and a half on a working holiday visa, which was one of the happiest and most carefree times of my life. Japan: A working holiday guide is pretty much out of print now, but you might be able to find a second-hand copy on Booko or in your local library.

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