Linda Jaivin’s new novel, A Most Immoral Woman, focuses on an Australian historical figure's affair with a woman commonly described as an ‘American nymphomaniac heiress’. Bettina Arndt’s new book is an astonishing exposé showing how ordinary couples cope with the tensions of managing their sex supply. They talk about hot women and women who find sex leaves them cold, and about female sexual desire in fact and fiction.
BETTINA ARNDT (LOCAL) BETTINA ARNDT trained as a clinical psychologist before becoming a sex therapist and social commentator. As editor of the influential Forum magazine, she spent ten years talking about sex on television and radio. She then moved on to writing about broader social issues, working as a columnist and feature writer for leading newspapers and magazines. She is the bestselling author of Private Lives, All About Us and Taking Sides. Her new book, The Sex Diaries, uses research to show how couples negotiate their sex supply and deal with the tensions of mismatched desire.
LINDA JAIVIN (LOCAL) LINDA JAIVIN is a novelist, essayist, playwright, specialist writer on China and translator. Her first novel was the comic-erotic bestseller Eat Me. The Infernal Optimist was shortlisted for the 2007 ASL Gold Medal. Her non-fiction includes the acclaimed China memoir The Monkey and the Dragon and the collection of essays Confessions of an S&M Virgin. Her latest book, the historical novel A Most Immoral Woman, is set in 1904 and is based on an incident in the life of George 'Chinese’ Morrison. The novel brings together Linda’s interests in China, history, journalism and the character of the female libertine.
ROSEMARIE MILSOM (LOCAL) ROSEMARIE MILSOM has been a journalist for 14 years. Prior to venturing into freelance writing last year, she was books editor at The Sun-Herald.
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