Lisa Walker Lisa Walker i(A115504 works by)
Born: Established: Holland, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Lisa Walker was born in Holland, grew up in Fiji, and spent her teenage years in Brisbane. She has worked as a bartender, wilderness guide, lecturer in outdoor education, and in environmental communication. In 2018, she was based on the north coast of New South Wales.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2010 second place FAW (Tas) Henry Savery National Short Story Award for 'His Inappropriate Heart'
2005 winner ABC Radio Regional Production Fund Short Story Project ABC Radio Short Story Competition for Fully Sick Backpackers

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Trouble Is My Business Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2021 22560420 2021 single work novel young adult

'Olivia Grace, recently retired teen PI, has her priorities sorted. Pass first-year law, look after her little sister, and persuade her parents to come back from a Nepali monastery to resume ... well, parenting. But after Olivia's friend Abbey goes missing in Byron Bay, a short drive from Olivia's Gold Coast home, she can't sit back and study Torts. It's time to go undercover as hippie-chick Nansea, in hippie-chic Byron Bay, hub of influencers and international tourism, and home of yoga, surfing and wellness culture.

'Olivia's looking for answers, with the help of her stash of disguises, the PI skills her irresistible ex-boss Rosco taught her - and a nose for trouble. Her suspects include a hardcore surfer who often argued with Abbey in the surf, a charismatic cult leader and an acrobatic botany student.

'And then there's Rosco, officially assigned to the case, and proving impossible to avoid.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 longlisted Davitt Award Best Young Adult Book
y separately published work icon The Girl with the Gold Bikini Mile End : Wakefield Press , 2020 18247236 2020 single work novel young adult

'Whenever I see a girl with a gold bikini, I think of Princess Leia. Here on the Gold Coast, gold bikinis are common, so I think of Princess Leia a lot.

'Eighteen-year-old Olivia Grace has deferred her law degree and ducked out of her friends' gap-year tour of Asia. Instead, she's fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a private investigator, following in the footsteps of Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars - who taught her everything she knows, including a solid line in quick-quipping repartee, the importance of a handbag full of disguises, and a way of mixing business with inconvenient chemistry.

'Playing Watson to the Sherlock of her childhood friend, detective agency owner Rosco (once the Han Solo to her Princess Leia), Olivia pursues a routine cheating husband case from the glitzy Gold Coast to Insta-perfect Byron Bay, where she faces yoga wars, dirty whale activism, and a guru who's kind of a creep.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 longlisted Davitt Award Best Debut
2021 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Young Adult Book
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