Victoria Purman

Ordinary women, extraordinary stories

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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category for the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature and the 2022 ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize for an unpublished manuscript.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. ❤️🙏🥰📕
Road trip adventures for THE MARRIAGE TRAP!
Thanks to Mr Barker Library for having me and to all the lovely readers who came along,  ought books and shared their stories of the swinging sixties. And HUGE thanks to @lainie.anderson for the discussion. We could have talked all night. 🥰
Lots of signed copies of THE MARRIAGE TRAP in Adelaide bookstores! Make sure to check out @dillonsbookshop @dymocksadelaide @dymocksglenelg @dymockshydepark @mostly_books @qbdbooks Rundle Mall. @harlequinaus

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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.”
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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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