Day: January 16, 2013

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Australian Writers’ Centre Team

YA Erskine: Police officer turned author

After working for 11 years as a police officer in Tasmania, YA (Yvette) Erskine decided to leave the force and pursue her writing career. Her first book is The Brotherhood, a fictional account of what many police officers experience daily in their working lives. The novel follows the investigation of

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