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  • Bibliography:
    22 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1989
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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About the Author

Kathy Lette first achieved "success de scandale" as a teenager with the novel Puberty Blues. After several years as a newspaper columnist and television sitcom writer in America and Australia, she wrote the internationally-best selling Girls' Night Out, The Llama Parlour, Foetal Attraction, Mad Cows, Altar Ego ,Nip 'n' Tuck and Dead Sexy. Her novels have been published in fourteen languages all around the world. She lives in London with her husband and two children.

Book List in Order: 22 titles



  • When Kat Kennedy, a straight-talker from Australia, wins a walk-on part in a cult Hollywood sitcom, she soon discovers the bizarre side of life there. Nude car washes, jacuzzi orgies, a drug addict heart-throb and a dead body are just a few of the th...



  • Kat's in Hollywood to meet a man who's romantic. You know, the type who talks to you after sex. Nothing special, as long as he has pectorals, a Ph.D., a nice bum, a non-sexist attitude, can cook souffles and wants a loving relationship with bone-marr...



  • Washed up in London and trying her best to raise her new-born son alone, Madeleine Wolfe is looking forward to taking her mind off things with some retail therapy â€" even if her budget stretches to prunes rather than Prada. But her day out takes an ...



  • Becky Steele has a black belt in tongue fu. She holds the Girl's Night Out record for the shortest amount of time between meeting a man and going to bed with him ( nine minutes). So why is she getting married? Sure, Julian's the right man, but has...



  • Journalist Lizzie McPhee has always thought of beauty as a case of mind over matter â€" if you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

    But all that changes when she begins the countdown towards the big 4-0. Suddenly, she's comparing her...



  • Bestselling author Kathy Lettes debut novel is available in Britain for the first time.Written twenty years ago, Puberty Blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took Australia by storm and spawned an eponymous cult movie. It ...



  • Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract. That's what Shelly Green thinks when she meets Kit Kincaide...on their wedding day. Unwittingly entered by her students in a Desperate and Dateless reality show contest, Shelly, a Lond...



  • It's brains versus Botox Lizzie's life is so perfect she has to look down to see cloud nine . . . until she realizes she's about to hit the dreaded four-oh. For most women, turning forty is more dangerous than wearing a bikini thong in a big surf. No...



  • All women want to kill their husbands some of the time...

    "Where there's a will, I intend to be in it," wives half-joke to each other.

    Marriage, it would appear, is a fun-packed frivolous hobby, only occasionally res...






  • Lucy's life was supposed to be idyllic once she and her family moved to sun-soaked Oz â€" but it couldn't be more of a mess.

    No sooner have they unpacked their Marmite, than Lucy catches her darling husband Jasper inflagrante. With...



  • Meet Merlin. He's Lucy's bright, beautiful son -- who just happens to be autistic. Since Merlin's father left them in the lurch shortly after his diagnosis, Lucy has made Merlin the centre of her world. Struggling with the joys and tribulations of ra...





  • Tilly has the day from hell when she's sacked from her barristers' chambers in the morning, then finds her husband in bed with her former best friend in the afternoon.

    She escapes to her mother, Roxy â€" a sassy solicitor whose out...



  • Women are each otherâ??s human wonder bras â?? uplifting, supportive and making each other look bigger and better. The wit and wisdom of Girl Talk will not only offer some pun-in-cheek female solidarity but will also help readers achieve ...



  • Now an adult on "L" plates, Debbie and her girlfriends reveal what women talk about when there's no men around. Prepare yourself for full-frontal comedic camaraderie. After breaking-off with both her best friend and boyfriend Debbie runs away to t...



  • An outrageously funny, heartbreaking read â€" when Ruby finds out she has cancer on the brink of her 50th birthday, she decides to start living instead of complying...

    Ruby has always been the generous mediator among her friends, family an...



  • When Jane decides to move to the Australian outback in search of a husband, her sister Anthea thinks she's mad.

    But then again, the sisters have never seen eye-to-eye. Anthea is slim, beautiful and has a perfect life and fiancé. Jane ...



  • One dead husband. Three grieving widows.When she hears a man has been killed by a Great White shark, Gwen races to the beach only to find that all that remains of her husband is his swimming cap and a piece of torn, blood-stained wetsuit. Her grief i...



  • A mother searches for love for her autistic son with hilarious consequences in this laugh-out-loud novel from Kathy Lette.

    As a crossword-addicted English teacher, Lucy never expected to be arrested for kerb-crawling. But her autistic twen...






  • Why don't women tell jokes? Because we marry them.

    Devastatingly funny and more than a little outrageous, Kathy offers up advice ("if he wants breakfast in bed, tell him to sleep in the kitchen"), her inimitable insights into ...



  • 'Fast moving and frothing with the fun kind of female fury' JO BRAND

    WHEN THE ODDS ARE AGAINST YOU, IT'S TIME TO GET EVEN.

    Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are all women at the top of their game; so imagine their surpri...



  • An outrageously funny, heartbreaking read – when Ruby finds out she has cancer on the brink of her 50th birthday, she decides to start living instead of complying...Ruby has always been the generous mediator among her friends, family and collea...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Kathy Lette has published 22 books.

The next book by Kathy Lette, HRT, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Kathy Lette, Girls' Night Out, was published in June 1989.

No. Kathy Lette does not write books in series.