A wannabe reader-for-a-living, the deckchair guru loves to sit down with a good book, though finding time to do so is often limited to the workday commute (about 35 mins each way).

2009 Book List:

1. Everything Changes - Jonathan Tropper

2008 Book List:

1. Breath - Tim Winton
2. Mr Wong Goes West - Nury Vittachi
3. How to Talk to a Widower - Jonathan Tropper
4. Boned - Anonymous
5. A Figure of Speech - Graham Freudenberg
6. Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
7. Shakespeare: The World as Stage - Bill Bryson
8. In the Event of my Untimely Demise - Brian Sack
9. The Rise and Rise of Kerry Packer: Uncut - Paul Barry
10. The Shark Net - Robert Drewe
11. The Gathering - Anne Enright
12. Sushi Daze - Rob Payne
13. That’d Be Right - William McInnes

2007 Book List:

1. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
2. Chart Throb - Ben Elton
3. Ludmila’s Broken English - DBC Pierre
4. The First Casualty - Ben Elton
5. Love and Other Near-Death Experiences - Mil Millington
6. Down Under - Bill Bryson
7. Sunstroke - Jesse Kellerman
8. Gone - Jonathan Kellerman
9. False Impression - Jeffrey Archer
10. Midas - Russell Andrews
11. Jonestown - Chris Masters
12. Company - Max Barry
13. Sucked In - Shane Maloney
14. The Book of Joe - Jonathan Tropper
15. Made in America - Bill Bryson
16. Who Killed Channel 9? - Gerald Stone
17. The Boss - Andrew O’Keeffe
18. My Life as a Fake - Peter Carey
19. Time Bomb - Jonathan Kellerman

2006 Book List:

1. A Man’s Got to Have a Hobby - William McInnes
2. The Latham Diaries - Mark Latham
3. Lolly Scramble - Tony Martin
4. Teacher Man - Frank McCourt
5. Pressure Point - Greg Baker
6. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
7. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
8. Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre
9. Morning’s Gone - Jon Cleary
10. Holding the Man - Timothy Conigrave
11. Aphrodite – Russell Andrews
12. Start From Here - Sean French
13. Regret - Ian Kennedy Williams
14. A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby
15. Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
16. Suspension - Richard Crabbe
17. Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
18. Kokoda - Peter Fitzsimons
19. Cricket Kings - William McInnes