my books…

some of My Earliest memories are in the kitchen with my mum, my happy place. I’ve been incredibly fortunate to spend my thirties writing cookbooks - a gift that allowed me to stay home with my children when they were little, and fit my work around motherhood. It was photographing Life after birth that gave me the nudge i needed to enter the world of family photography and, after wanting to be a photographer for as long as i can remember, i haven’t looked back. Thank you to everyone who has been on this journey with me.

My most recent release, a book about salad for every mood, craving and occasion.

Rather than a side or simple starter, this book shows you how to make delicious and filling salads that are meals in their own right. By walking you through the five key elements for building delicious salads: leaf, body, protein, dressing and crunch, this book arms you with the tools to turn any assortment of ingredients into an Epic Salad.

Widely considered a postpartum bible, Life After Birth is a comprehensive guide to preparing, supporting, and nourishing yourself through the early stages of motherhood. It offers everything from essential conversations to have with your partner before birth, practical healing tips, and evidence-based nutrition advice to breastfeeding guidance, recipes, and hands-on insights. Drawing from my experience as a mother, Vaughne’s expertise as a naturopath, and our shared work as doulas, this book covers it all, to help parents thrive during this transformative time.

These books are from another era, but represent a huge part of who I am and what led me to where I am today.

The short version is that I started a food blog in 2013 with no idea what I was doing or how to take photos of food. I was shortlisted for a blog award and found out I was pregnant not long after. When checking my spam folder for an email from my health insurance (compulsory in Berlin, where I was living at the time), I found an email from Hardie Grant UK - wanting to do a book with me. I went on to do three books with them, all while pregnant and/or with tiny humans underfoot - one who ate nothing and one who ate everything in sight - and with an international move (from Berlin to Melbourne) and pandemic to keep me on my toes.

In the words of Chowhound, these books contain “undemanding vegan recipes that are founded on the principles of ease and affordability”