Author

Libby O’Loghlin

Libby O’Loghlin is the author of short stories, genre fiction and nonfiction. Her debut novel Charlotte Aimes (Young Adult Mystery Adventure) was longlisted for the Bath Children’s Novel Award in 2015.

Libby grew up in Australia, the US, England and Malaysia. Now living in Zürich, Switzerland, she has had a varied career in communications and narrative media production.

Publications

Decarbonista: A Refreshing Guide to Climate Savvy Living

Looking for a fresh take on the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced? Look no further.

With an invitation to crunch your numbers and play with the detail of your own unique carbon footprint, this 7-step plan workbook is a beautiful on-ramp for understanding the scope of the challenge at hand: where greenhouse gases show up in everyday life, where our levers for change reside, and how we can all contribute and participate in building a regenerative future in our own unique way. Your pace, your price, your priorities.

Co-written with Renée LaPlante, 2025.

The Expansion

VOTED 2017 BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE ONLINE BOOKCLUB

In politics and big business, truth is a matter of opinion.

Straddling the storyworlds of Panama, Washington and London, The Expansion follows British-born geomatic engineer Max Burns, who finds himself in the frame for sabotage and murder, and at the center of a web of political intrigue and betrayal that reaches far beyond the idyllic shores of Central America. The only person Max can trust is his new-found love, Karis Deen, who holds a secret that could not only destroy Max, but could change the entire balance of world power.

Ghostwritten with Christoph Zollinger, 2017.

Charlotte Aimes: The Great Alpine Adventure

LONGLISTED, BATH CHILDREN’S NOVEL AWARD, 2015

A Young Adult mystery adventure with attitude. And snowboards.

When it comes to reality aversion, Charlotte Aimes rules unrivalled. Sent to a new school after the death of her mother, she has no interest in playing the popularity game. Not for her childhood friend, Lyla. Not even for the magnetic René Adler.

But when winter sets in, she’s out of range, halfway up a mountain with a killer on her trail and a kidnapped friend on her conscience, and Charlotte knows going it alone is a really dumb idea. But who can you turn to when you’ve burned all your bridges?

On This Day

Do you remember what you were doing the day John Lennon died?

On This Day is a Bridge House 2012 anthology of short stories from the competition of the same name. Libby O’Loghlin’s story Imagine won second prize.

Audio read by Libby here.