Author will be guest

Ms Nicole Alexander, author of the Australian family saga The Bark Cutters, will be guest author at the morning tea event hosted by a Umina bookstore on Sunday, April 18.

Book Bazaar owner Ms Mandi McIntosh said: "A fourth generation grazier, Nicole Alexander spent six years at boarding school in Sydney, completed a degree through the University of New England before taking up a marketing career in Singapore and Australia.

"Eleven years ago she returned to the family's wheat and cattle station in Moree, and is now its business manager.

"Not only does she run the homestead but she is also a talented writer.

"Her poetry, travel and genealogy articles have been published in Australia, America and Singapore.

"She has a Master of Letters in creative writing and is currently working on the sequel to The Bark Cutters, Wangallon.

"The first novel is an Australian family saga that centres around the family property Wangallon.

"Past and present interweave in a story that traces the Gordon family from the arrival of Scottish immigrant Hamish Gordon in Australia in the 1850s to the life of his great granddaughter, Sarah, in the 1980s.

"Full of action, romance, tragedy, family secrets and misunderstandings this novel has a bit of something for everyone but particularly the discerning commercial women's fiction reader."

The event will cost $10 to cover morning tea and will be held from 10.15am.

Press release, 16 Mar 2010 Mandi McIntosh, Book Bazaar