Victoria Purman
Ordinary women, extraordinary stories
For dates and booking links for appearances for the launch of The Marriage Trap, click here.
Victoria with international bestselling Australian author Chris Hammer at the Mudgee Readers Festival, 2025.
About Victoria
Australian top ten and USA Today bestselling fiction author
Victoria Purman is an Australian top ten and USA Today bestselling fiction author and sought-after MC and Chair for author events. Her new book, The Marriage Trap, is published in Australia in May 2026. She is a regular guest at writers festivals, a mentor and workshop presenter across Australia, and has judged the fiction category for the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript. In her role as an MC, she has interviewed numerous New York times bestselling and Australian bestselling authors. You’ll find information about Victoria’s books here and she can be contacted at victoria@victoriapurman.com.
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My book tour for THE MARRIAGE TRAP is over! Thank you to readers, booksellers, librarians all over the country and my incredible team @harlequinaus and the stellar, legendary @benson_publicity. ❤️🙏🥰📕 ... See MoreSee Less
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These three books are out TODAY and I'm giving away one copy of each to a lucky newsletter subscriber. If you haven't signed up, head to my website. It's simply and easy - and there are giveaways every month. I've read both Ayesha Inoon's "The Sisters of Serendib" and Arianne James' "Daughters of the Tide" and loved them both. And Penelope Janu Author is a MUST READ for me. Sign up quickly if you want the chance to win - I'm sending out my (very late) newsletter tomorrow. ... See MoreSee Less
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This is very exciting! I’m in WHO magazine this week! Have you read THE MARRIAGE TRAP yet? 📕 🥰HQBooks ... See MoreSee Less
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Being reviewed anywhere in the newspapers is hard these days, with shrinking arts pages, so imagine my absolute thrill to see this review in The Weekend Australian. Feeling very lucky 😊
“The Marriage Trap is a potent reminder of how far rights have come for women, and what we have to lose.” ... See MoreSee Less
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Thank you so much Lee and Vic’s Book Club at QBD Books! ... See MoreSee Less
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I had the most brilliant event at Dymocks Books Literary Luncheon at the Four Seasons in Sydney today. What a pleasure it was to be interviewed by the incredibly talented Cassie Hamer. Thanks to everyone who came along. HQBooks. ... See MoreSee Less
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My new book THE MARRIAGE TRAP is about the battles Australian women had to get access to the contraceptive pill, after it was introduced to Australia in 1961, only the second place in the world to approve it for use. When I was writing the book, I was fueled by the injustice of the roll-back of reproductive rights in parts of the world, particularly the United States. First abortion and then contraception. In my author talks I’ve said that we here in Australia must always be vigilant that these rights aren’t taken away from us. We must never, ever take them for granted. And so I wake up to this from the Royal Australia and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists this morning and I’m stunned. I knew about the attempts in SA to wind back abortion rights (my home state - and it won’t pass the Parliament) but what the hell is happening in Queensland? A publicly-funded hospital that won’t provide contraception? How can this be? ... See MoreSee Less
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