The Secret Lives of Emma by Natasha Walker

John closed 'John's Bookshop' in late 2008 when the building in which it was housed was to be redeveloped and joined the staff of, where he currently holds the title of Director of Books. It was just the classics and the greatest writing possible.' It was really a place for me to sit and pontificate, and I was completely anti most of the books in the universe. About this stage of his life, John has said, 'I had no interest in business. He learned a great deal from his customers and frequently dissuaded them from buying the latest bestseller in favour of a Dostoevsky, a Hardy or an E.M. He has described this period of his life as his 'education' as a writer and says he spent more time reading and writing than selling books. Career as a bookseller įrom 1999-2008, John owned and ran John's Bookshop, a second-hand bookshop located in Mosman. He still failed his exams but had fallen in love with books. 'Then a teacher put a copy of Catch-22 in my hands and that changed my life,' John has said.

He attended Mosman High School and was in his final months of school when his teachers figured out he could barely read due to undiagnosed dyslexia.

John Purcell was born in Sydney and grew up in the wealthy lower-north-shore suburb of Mosman. He appears regularly in print, on television and at Australian writers' festivals to talk about books and the publishing industry. He is also the Director of Books at Booktopia (Australia's largest online bookseller) and Angus & Robertson Bookworld. | Fiction - Romance - General.John Purcell (born 1972) is an Australian author whose novels include The Secret Lives of Emma (under the pseudonym Natasha Walker) published by Penguin Random House in 2012 and The Girl on the Page, published by HarperCollins Australia in October 2018. 'Book 3 of the best selling trilogy' - Cover.Įrotic stories. But then a handsome, exotic stranger enters the scene - and Emma must make her decision. Choosing the latter, at least for the time being, she trades Sydney for the burning heat of the Italian coast. Can she possibly stay married to David, a man who will never understand her boundless erotic desires? And would he ever forgive her if she told him the truth? With her marriage teetering on the brink of ruin, she has two options - fight or flight. For temptation is all around her, and now her life has hit a crossroads. But she never meant any of this to happen.

Emma Benson was unlikely ever to be your average housewife.

'The continuing adventures of Emma Benson! The third book in an erotica series that taps into our deepest sexual fantasies. North Sydney, NSW : Random House Australia, 2013 National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia.The Secret Lives of Emma : unmasked / Natasha Walker Book Bib IDīook, Online, Online - Google Books

The Secret Lives of Emma by Natasha Walker