Bruce Menzies was born in Subiaco, Western Australia.
After scraping through a law degree he moved to Canberra for a stint in the Public Service, highlighted by three years in Germany. In the seventies, he worked as a lawyer in Fremantle and helped set up a Montessori school. Graduating to an Indian ashram, he spent seven years in a commune before returning to Perth in the mid-eighties.
In 1990 Bruce and his wife moved to Denmark on the south coast of Western Australia where they built a mud brick home, grew bio-dynamic raspberries and constructed holiday accommodation which became Bombina Cottages. During that period Bruce morphed from a lawyer into a mediator – and succumbed to the writing virus.
He has published photo-journals covering travels in Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, South Africa & Zambia, Japan, and Ecuador.
In 2011, he published The Warp and the Weft, a family history and the migration of ancestors in the nineteenth century.
Absence Makes, the first novel was published in April 2013. A sequel, Ascending Sideways, was released in December 2013.
Dreaming South Terrace, the third in the trilogy was released in October, 2015.
In August 2019, a memoir - Whirlpool - In & Out of a Spiritual Washing Machine - was birthed.
Bruce lives in South Fremantle with his wife, Daniele.
After scraping through a law degree he moved to Canberra for a stint in the Public Service, highlighted by three years in Germany. In the seventies, he worked as a lawyer in Fremantle and helped set up a Montessori school. Graduating to an Indian ashram, he spent seven years in a commune before returning to Perth in the mid-eighties.
In 1990 Bruce and his wife moved to Denmark on the south coast of Western Australia where they built a mud brick home, grew bio-dynamic raspberries and constructed holiday accommodation which became Bombina Cottages. During that period Bruce morphed from a lawyer into a mediator – and succumbed to the writing virus.
He has published photo-journals covering travels in Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, South Africa & Zambia, Japan, and Ecuador.
In 2011, he published The Warp and the Weft, a family history and the migration of ancestors in the nineteenth century.
Absence Makes, the first novel was published in April 2013. A sequel, Ascending Sideways, was released in December 2013.
Dreaming South Terrace, the third in the trilogy was released in October, 2015.
In August 2019, a memoir - Whirlpool - In & Out of a Spiritual Washing Machine - was birthed.
Bruce lives in South Fremantle with his wife, Daniele.
