Fiction

The Toymaker by Liam Pieper

by Laurie Steed •

August 2016, no. 383

$29.99 pb, 272 pp, 9780670079384

Fiction

The Toymaker by Liam Pieper

by Laurie Steed •

August 2016, no. 383

Liam Pieper has been making quite a name for himself in recent years. He published his début memoir, The Feel Good Hit of the Year, to acclaim in 2014. He followed this up with Mistakes Were Made (2015), a collection of four essays. Now, just over a year later, he has published his first novel, The Toymaker; one reviewer has even compared it favourably to J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace (1999).

Laurie Steed

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Laurie Steed is an award-winning author from Perth, Western Australia. His fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in Best Australian Stories, Award Winning Australian Writing, The Age, Meanjin, Westerly, Island, and elsewhere. His début novel, You Belong Here, was published in 2018 and shortlisted for the 2018 Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards. His memoir, Love, Dad: Confessions of an anxious father was released in August 2023 and his third book, Greater City Shadows, won the 2021 Henry Handel Richardson Flagship Fellowship for Short Story Writing, was shortlisted for the 2022 Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and will be published by UWA Publishing in 2024.