Hobby

Lisa St Aubin de Teran is the prize-winning Anglo-Guyanese London- born author of 20 books, including novels, short stories and nonfiction. Much of her writing draws on her varied life experiences. And time warps, rural communities, isolation and grace under pressure are still the dominant themes in both her life and work.On the strength of her first novel, Keepers of the House (a new edition of which was published by Amaurea Press in 2024), she was chosen as a Best of British Young Novelist in 1982. After leaving the Andean hacienda, she lived as a perpetual traveller for the next twenty years. Then, in 2004, she settled in Mozambique, establishing the Teran Foundation to develop community tourism. She lived there until 2021, returning to London with a bag full of manuscripts, including her autobiography (Better Broken Than New, also published by Amaurea Press in 2024), and two new novels, The Hobby and Kafka Lodge.

"A spellbinding storyteller". -- The Listener"The author has an enviable narrative gift, and there is something magical about her deployment of it." -- The Guardian