Interview with Blanche d’Alpuget at Words on the Waves 2025

26 June 2025

Not Quite Write Interviews

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Ed and Amanda chat with newly minted spicy crime fiction author, Blanche d’Alpuget, following The Bunny Club with Blanche d’Alpuget session at the 2025 Words on the Waves Writers Festival. Blanche is best known as the second wife of the late Australian Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, but we take a broad look at Blanche’s extensive writing career across both fiction and non-fiction, and find out what inspired her to start writing spicy crime.

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Interview with Blanche d’Alpuget at Words on the Waves 2025

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