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Alison Rushby

Alison Rushby

Brisbane-based Australian author of more than 30 books across junior, middle-grade, YA and adult fiction, including the gothic novels Slashed Beauties (2025) and All Her Beautiful Deaths.

Sep 6, 2026

Talking Aussie Books

Talking Aussie Books

Talking Aussie Books with Allison Rushby

Sep 6 · 31m

Cassie Hamer
Cassie HamerHOST
10:09
Can you tell us a little bit about what they are and just briefly about what the premise was for that book?
Allison Rushby
Allison RushbyGUEST
10:15
Yeah.
Allison Rushby
Allison RushbyGUEST
10:16
So Slash Beaties is sort of about three women in 18th century London.
Allison Rushby
Allison RushbyGUEST
10:22
And their lives become sort of magically and murderously intertwined when they meet a witch and an anatomist who have a bit of a wicked plan behind the scenes.
Allison Rushby
Allison RushbyGUEST
10:34
And we sort of make this young antiques deal in the present day because it's a dual narrative as well.
Allison Rushby
Allison RushbyGUEST
10:39
And she's got to find a way to break her cursed connection to that trio of women in the past.
Allison Rushby
Allison RushbyGUEST
10:45
But she comes from a family that are antique stealers.
Cassie Hamer
Cassie HamerHOST
13:42
What do you think? was the key there? What did that teach you about what you need to write, what you should be writing?

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