Authors

Emilia Bresciani

Emilia was born in Peru of Peruvian and Italian parents. At the age of eighteen she travelled to Australia on a journey of adventure and later graduated as a journalist. For fifteen years she worked in radio and television, devoting …

Samantha Brett

Samantha Brett is a writer of popular on-line dating column and blog Sam and the City in The Sydney Morning Herald. Her first column, “Why I hate Valentine’s Day”, went up on 14 February 2006 and received a response of …

Karen Brooks

Dr Karen Brooks – mother of two – has an international reputation for her work on popular culture. She is an Associate Professor of Media Studies at Southern Cross University in Lismore, a columnist for the Courier-Mail and a regular …

Frances Burke

Francis has written several period novels set in both England and Australia. Her work has been widely published in Australasia and the UK, and one of her novels, Endless Time, was a winner in the Random House Competition of …

Nathan Burrage

Nathan Burrage has had short fiction published in Australian magazines such as Aurealis, Orb and Shadowed Realms, along with other assorted anthologies. A graduate of Clarion South, the 6-week writing workshop, his first novel Fivefold is being …

Robyn Lee Burrows

Robyn is best-known for her Australian historical novels such as When Wattles Bloom and Tea Tree Passage. She has also written non-fiction, including a biography of one of Australia’s most loved poets, Henry Lawson.…

Michelle Cavanagh

Michelle Cavanagh arrived in Australia in 1966 as a ‘ten-pound-Pom’. A long-time feminist and a retired businesswoman, she is the mother of six children. She has maintained a life-long love of literature and the theatre later developing an interest in …

Lynn Champion

Lynn has been a motivational speaker and workshop leader at conferences in Australia and internationally for many years. She is well known for her practical and entertaining approach to improving business and personal relationships. She is a social anthropologist, a …

Ann Charlton

Ann Charlton has lived most of her life in Wollongong and has travelled widely throughout Australia. Her work experience ranges from shop assistant to part owner of a small advertising business. She has won awards and written short stories, plays …

Ann Clancy

Ann is a bestselling author of historical romance novels set in the Australian outback. Her work includes The Wild Colonial Girl and Rebel Girl.…

Sharon Clarke

Sharon teaches Australian literature, children’s literature and creative writing. She has written a number of children’s books as well as the biography of Sumner Locke Elliot, Writing Life.…

Frank Coates

Born in Melbourne, Frank worked as a telecommunications engineer in Australia, Asia, and the Pacific before accepting a UN technical specialist appointment in Nairobi, Kenya, which changed his life. During his four years working and travelling throughout Africa, Frank developed …

Craig Cormick

Craig works as a journalist, writer and teacher. He is the author of two published non-fiction books, Kurikka’s Dreaming and Unwritten Histories. The latter won the ACT Book of the Year Award in 1999.…

Sandy Curtis

Sandy’s fourth suspense thriller, Until Death, hits the shelves on 25 February 2004. Her first three novels, Dance with the Devil, Black Ice, and Deadly Tide, published in Australia by Pan Macmillan, have also been sold …

Louise Cusack

Louise’s Shadow Through Time fantasy trilogy was selected as the Australian Doubleday book club ‘Quest’ as their Editor’s Choice, coinciding with the release of the final novel Glimmer in the Maelstrom in June 2003. Louise won the International PRISM award …

Andrew Daddo

Andrew Daddo is one of the sharpest new voices for many years in Australian writing for young people. In his chapter books for younger readers, Writing in Wet Cement, Creepy Cool, Andrew shows that he is a born …

Emma Darcy

Emma Darcy’s life journey has taken as many twists and turns as those of the characters in her stories whose international popularity has resulted in over sixty million sales from her books.

Over the past 20 years she has written …

Jenny Davis

Jenny grew up in Surrey, England, and emigrated to Perth in 1976. She is well known in Western Australia as an actress, and has worked extensively on stage over the past twenty years. Her book, Dear Heart, was staged …

Susanna De Vries

Susanna De Vries lectures at the University of Queensland Continuing Education Department and to women’s groups. Her father was a well-known Anglo-Irish writer and BBC broadcaster. She studied art history and history at the Sorbonne in Paris and the University …

Kaye Dobbie

(aka Lily Sommers)

Kaye began writing romance for Mills and Boon in the 1980s. After five romance novels, she began writing mainstream fiction, including five Australian historical novels under the name Lilly Sommers. Kaye has now returned to her …