title: Not Quite a Memoir: Of Films, Books, the World
author:  Judy Stone 
description: "Judy Stone has the wit, the independence and the journalistic guts to call the shots as she sees them. Her interviews are smashing in their revelations." Studs Terkel
zlib_text: From stage actor and international television star to blockbuster, best-
  selling author, Judy Nunn’s career has been meteoric.
  
  Her first forays into adult fiction resulted in what she describes as her
  ‘entertainment set’. _The Glitter Game_ , _Centre Stage_ and _Araluen_ , three
  novels set in the worlds of television, theatre and film respectively, each
  became an instant bestseller.
  
  Next came her ‘city set’. _Kal_ , a fiercely passionate novel about men and
  mining set in Kalgoorlie; _Beneath the Southern Cross_ , a mammoth achievement
  chronicling the story of Sydney since first European settlement; and
  _Territory_ , a tale of love, family and retribution set in Darwin.
  _Territory_ took Australia by storm, making Judy one of the nation’s top-
  selling fiction writers, and her following novel, _Pacific_ , set principally
  in Vanuatu, met with equal success.
  
  Her next work, _Heritage_ , a thriller based in the 1950s and set in the
  Snowies during the construction of the massive Snowy Mount