Sydney Writers' Festival

Lucinda Holdforth is a speechwriter and the author of two nonfiction works, ‘True Pleasures: A Memoir of Women in Paris’ and ‘Why Manners Matter: The Case for Civilised Behaviour in a Barbarous World’. Each has been published in markets around the world.

• Turning Japanese

Lee Tulloch is the author of five novels, her latest being ‘The Woman in the Lobby’. She is currently working on her sixth novel, ‘Dorothea Goes Wild’, as well as contributing to ‘Vogue Living’ as travel editor. She spent two years in Paris and lived in New York City for a total of 10 years, starting in 1985 when she began her first novel, ‘Fabulous Nobodies’. After September 11, 2001, she returned to live in Sydney.
 leetulloch.com

• 9/11: I Was There

Carolyn Burke was born in Australia, spent many years in Paris, and now lives in Santa Cruz, California. She is a member of the Authors Guild and the PEN American Center. Her book, ‘Lee Miller: A Life’, was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Biography Award. Carolyn is also the author of ‘Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy’. Her latest book is ‘No Regrets: The Life of Edith Piaf’.
 carolynburke.com

• Je Ne Regrette Rien
• The Artist’s Life