It is about 12 weeks since A Sunburnt Childhood hit the stands and it has been a whirlwind of interviews, book launches and bookshop signings and the development of this website. The book reached # 3 in Dymocks Memoir in the second week and was Hachette Australia #1 for a couple of weeks. It reached… Read More »

Your epic book of your childhood and the rise and fall of the empire of Bill Tapp took me on an adventure of love, fun, disaster, survival and the appreciation of the vast land of Killarney in all its beauty and hardships. I heard a small segment of your radio interview on the release of… Read More »

“Just as the Aboriginal people have a deep connection to the land and the songlines, I feel that same spiritual connection to Killarney.” In her memoir, ‘A Sunburnt Childhood’, Toni Tapp Coutts celebrates growing up on the cattle station of Killarney with nine siblings and a cast of larger-than-life ... Read More »

As well as loving A Sunburnt Childhood “just because”, I think it’s a really important contribution to some very real and little known Oz history. Also, a very plain yet potent tribute to Australia’s indigenous people which probably hasn’t existed before. (Even We of the Never Never didn’t live it quite like you have, plus ... Read More »

I was very privileged to be able to attend the launch of A Sunburnt Childhood by our own and now famous NT Author Toni Tapp Coutts. Thank you for such a great read and for the walk back in time when things were so very different to now and also for reminding me of people I had almost… Read More »