Lee Tulloch was born in Melbourne. She has had a long career as a journalist, writing on fashion and culture for numerous publications including Vogue, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, the New York Times and New York Magazine. She has travelled extensively and lived in New York and Paris. She now lives by the sea in Sydney. She has written a number of books including the hit fashion novel Fabulous Nobodies and, most recently, Perfect Pink Polish - a collection of fashion articles, published by Penguin.
Witch's Honour is the last in Jan Siegel's trilogy began in Prospero's Children and continued in The Dragon-Charmer. In the previous volumes our heroine, Fern, became aware of her powers as a witch and, with her brother Will and other allies, sought to defeat dark forces including sorceress Morgus, who tried to imprison Fern in the Otherworld and was killed by her in return. Now Fern is grown up and working in PR in London, but she discovers that Morgus has returned from the dead and come to England to seek her revenge, while evil spirit Azmordis is also on the warpath. Siegel's world is set within ours but it is a world of witches, wizards, goblins and earth-powers which coexist with ordinary and mundane people. The Gifted, or Prospero's children, have witch powers derived from the fall of Atlantis, and Atlantean and Arthurian myths are central to the narrative. Siegel writes well, and her excellent descriptive talents create some moments of real fear. The narrative sags a little in the middle - usually a problem of the middle volume of a trilogy rather than the last - but the exciting finale more than makes up for it. Siegel has a strong future ahead of her. Ages 12+ (Kirkus UK)