Kate McAuley

Name: Kate McAuley

Age: 36

Location: Australian-born, London-based (for the moment)

Occupation: writer

Website: www.i-am-not-a-celebrity.com

List:

• Goose, the cat.
• A broken shell – the first thing my beloved ever gave me not long after we met Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea.
• Jade and silver earrings bought by my beloved at the souq in Muscat, Oman.
  Silver cuff bought by my beloved at a market in Douala, Cameroon.
• My grandmother’s copy of the complete works of Oscar Wilde (most of my books are in storage at the moment).
• Link bracelet bought by my beloved at a market in Cyprus.
• Flapjack succulents struck from my mum’s plant in Sydney.
• Money plant struck from favorite plant in my yard in Dubai.
• Orchid given to me for my birthday last week (if you could see the flowers, you’d understand).
• Handful of notebooks where I make plans and write prose for my novels and the other bits and pieces I’m commissioned to produce.
• Mac book pro with an almost finished novel, photographs and music hiding somewhere safe inside.
• iPhone (for reasons obvious).
• Bronze statue bought in the markets in Douala, Cameroon.
• Silver, glittery Manolo Blahniks.
• Green woven hat from Sydney.
• Framed photographs of us at The Grand Canyon and outside The Louvre.
• The baby cactuses I got in Ikea, just because I love them and I’m so happy I’ve been able to keep them alive for more than a year.