5/4/2010 NEWS: Susanna's Latest Book, Complete Book of Heroic Australian Women, will be out May 2010, published by Harper Collins. Available online and from all leading booksellers.
'Parenting Girls in the 21st Century' will be out in time for Mothers Day 2010! This book has been updated and re-released due to popular demand. You can purchase online at smashwords.com or amazon.com, or through Dymocks, QBD, Target, and good independent booksellers.
Susanna will be giving a short powerpoint presentation on Parenting Girls Sunday 30th May at Garden City Library at 10am wilth school teacher Marusia McCormick and single mother and businesswoman Jill Richardson.
If you're unable to make that talk - don't fret! Susanna will be giving the same talk with Marusia and Jill at Indroopilly library, Sunday 13 June 10am.
NEWS: Latest book by Susanna out in August 2009 Females on the Fatal Shore available wholesale through Tower Books of Sydney, and can be purchased by the public through Booktopia, Dymocks, and all good bookstores.
NEWS: Susanna de Vries is excited to announce that Smashwords will now be selling digital versions of selected books, available for instant download in one of eight formats! Go to 'Where to Buy - Digital Books' to see a complete list of what is available so far. More books will be added in the coming months, so continue to check back and see what has been added.
We are also proud to announce that additional digital resources have been added for Females on the Fatal Shore. Check the Females on the Fatal Shore page for more information, or go straight to Teacher Tube to watch the videos.
NEWS: Advance Notice of the Publication of Royal Lovers, Mistresses (and Bastards): This illustrated book with text and picture research by Susanna de Vries is now in course of publication by David Batemen, New Zealand, for sale through publishers in New Zealand, Australia and Europe.
Susanna de Vries is an international author and former lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology. She writes full time but gives occasional study days as part of the ‘Travel and Destinations’ programme run by the Continuing Education Dept of the University of Queensland. She also lectures to branches of the Australian Fine and Decorative Art Society. Of Anglo-Irish extraction Susanna’s biological father was a distinguished author. Adopted at birth and raised by loving adoptive parents, during World War 2, their London home was bombed and Susanna spent years living with relatives or in hotels. Reading everything she could find became her refuge and comfort.
She attended boarding school at Ascot and then went to study at the Sorbonne University in Paris and won a scholarship to study Art History in Madrid. She speaks fluent Spanish and French and has lived and worked in London, Edinburgh, Berlin, Florence, Barcelona and Sydney but now lives in Brisbane and has nine grandchildren.
Susanna’s fourteen books have won her literary awards in Ireland and Britain, an Order of Australia for services to literature and a Winston Churchill Fellowship. She has twice been short-listed for the Queensland Premier's Non-Fiction awards. Great Australian Women and Blue Ribbons, Bitter Bread: the life of Joice Loch Australia’s Most Decorated Woman have become Australian classics.
