Author Talk with Rachael Johns (Australind Library)

Rachael Johns is coming to the 2025 Shire of Harvey Libraries Literacy Festival!

About Rachael

Rachael Johns is an English teacher by trade, a mum 24/7, a Diet Coke addict, a cat lover and chronic arachnophobe.

She rarely sleeps and never irons. She is also the bestselling, ABIA-winning author of The Patterson Girls and a number of other romance and women’s fiction books, including her recent bestseller, Something to Talk About.

Rachael is currently Australia’s leading writer of contemporary relationship stories around women’s issues, a genre she has coined ‘life-lit’.

Rachael has finaled in a number of competitions, including the Australian Romance Readers Awards. Jilted (her first rural romance) won Favourite Australian Contemporary Romance in 2012, and The Patterson Girls won the 2016 Romance Writers of Australia RUBY Award and also the 2015 Australian Book Industry Award for General Fiction. She continually places in Booktopia’s Top 50 Aussie Authors poll.

Rachael lives in the Swan Valley with her hyperactive husband, three mostly-gorgeous heroes-in-training, two ravenous cats, a cantankerous bird and a very badly-behaved dog.

About the event

Rachael will be talking about her most recent title “The Bridesmaid.”

She will speak about adapting ideas from the original Parent Trap story to suit adult readers, and researching information for the story in Norfolk Island.

Rachael will be at Australind Library for an Author Talk event on Thursday, 6 March 2025 at 10.30am. 

See you there!

For queries, ring Harvey Library on 9729 0390 or email hstaff@harvey.wa.gov.au

Check out the other Literacy Festival 2025 events or download the program of activities.