Please join us for an author chat and book launch with Foster Burton and Leanne at our Port Macquarie Library on Friday 14th March at 10.30am.

‘Before I was a writer, I was everything else.

I never knew I wanted to be a writer. In fact, up until embarrassingly recently, and despite being a devourer of novels, I had never even made the connection that being an author could be a job; that is, until at the peak of my business career, the penny dropped and consequently threw my life upside down.

Now, in hindsight, I can see that I was always headed in this direction, though the path was never clear. My LinkedIn, if I had one, would read like a short story: coffee van (in an old Kombi, before it was cool, thank you very much), insurance sales, app development, branding, classic car dealing, home renovation; the list goes on. Yet somehow, each career choice and pivot led me here, and I couldn’t be happier with the outcome.

My stories are littered with my own life experiences, with more than a little creative salt and pepper sprinkled on top. I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Reach out any time for a yarn.’ Foster Burton

THE HOLLOW

The long awaited 19th century historical thriller by Foster Burton

Southern Queensland, 1888

Squatter Jack Thomas has long dreamt of riches: of a grand house full of servants, and a life of comfort and luxury. So when he finds a nugget of gold on land they don’t yet own, he is faced with a difficult choice: listen to his older brother Bill, and forget he ever found it? Or follow his heart and sell it… and lose everything along the way.

“Absolutely Unputdownable” – J.N Loadsman

“The work of a REAL author” – Peter Watt, author of Cry of the Curlew