Apple Gidley

Apple Gidley, an Anglo-Australian author, whose life has been spent absorbing countries and cultures, considers herself a global nomad. When not on St Croix in the US Virgin Islands, she can be found in Houston, Texas.

She has moved 27 times, and has called twelve countries home (Nigeria, England, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Papua New Guinea, The Netherlands, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, Scotland, USA, Equatorial Guinea), and her experiences are described in her first book, Expat Life Slice by Slice (Summertime 2012).

Her roles have been varied - from magazine editor to intercultural trainer to Her Britannic Majesty’s Honorary Consul. Now writing full time, Apple evocatively portrays peoples and places with empathy and humour, whether writing essays, short stories or full-length fiction.

She shares her writing space with Bonnie, a stray cat who spreads across her keyboard, and Stan, a stray dog who keeps her feet warm in the tropics!

Fireburn (OC Publishing 2017), historical fiction set in the Danish West Indies of the 1870s (now the US Virgin Islands) was followed by the sequel Transfer (OC Publishing 2019). Crucian Fusion, a book of fact and fiction about St Croix in the USVI was published in the Fall, 2021. Apple's latest novel, released by Vine Leaves Press (Sept 2022), is a dual-time story set in Malaya of the 1950s and modern day Malaysia, England and Australia.

Her WIP is a contemporary novel set in Venice, and she is researching her next historical fiction to be based WWII Papua New Guinea.