The Lady Brewer of London

Karen Brooks is the author of 11 books, an academic and newspaper columnist. She has a PhD in English / Cultural Studies, is an award-winning lecturer and has published internationally on popular culture, education and social psychology. When not writing, Karen loves being with her family, her fur kids – the dogs, spending time with friends, cooking, travelling, reading and dreaming. She lives in Hobart, Tasmania in a stone house built in 1868, which has its own wonderful stories to tell.

Hannah’s one-woman show My Name is Rachel Corrie was nominated for both the Adelaide Critics’ Circle and Green Room Awards 2010, and won the Adelaide Theatre Guild’s ‘Curtain Call’ Award for Best Female Performance in 2010. In 2009 she was awarded Best Theatre Performance for her role in After the End. Her theatre credits include: Actors at Work (Bell Shakespeare), Goodbye Ruby Tuesday (Melbourne International Comedy Festival), The Red and the Black (Stork Theatre), Been So Long (Adelaide Fringe 2006), Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Australian Shakespeare Company). 2012 saw Hannah starting the year touring Australia in David Williamson’s Let the Sunshine.