Phillipa Fioretti
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Phillipa Fioretti is an award winning artist and Australian author. Phillipa studied archaeology and museum studies and worked as an artist and lecturer for twenty years before starting to write fiction in 2006. Her strong interests in Italy and Italian culture, vintage cinema and fashion, Classical Rome and the ancient world and the history of food and eating, are underlying themes in her books.
In 2008 she was selected for participation in the Hachette Australia/Queensland Writers Centre Manuscript Development Program.Her first book, The Book of Love, Hachette Australia, 2010, has also been published in Germany, Romania, Norway, Poland, Serbia and Montenegro and the sequel, The Fragment of Dreams was published in May 2011
Her third book, For One Night Only, is published by Pan MacMillan’s digital press, Momentum, January 2014
Phillipa lives at the bottom of the world – in the hills outside Adelaide, South Australia – with her husband and children and an assortment of animals domestic, wild and feral. She likes reading in bed and travelling .
