Kathryn Apel
Kathryn Apel is a born-and-bred farm girl who’s scared of cows. She lives among the gum trees, cattle and kangaroos on a Queensland grazing property. Her previous books include the rollicking rural rhymer, This is the Mud! and the verse novel, …
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Lee Cataldi
Lee Cataldi was born in Sydney in 1942 to an Anglo-Australian mother and Italian father. She completed a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney in 1962 and then a Bachelor of Letters from Oxford University in 1968. She became a high school …
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Deborah Niland
Deborah Niland has been drawing and painting all her life. She has painted for art exhibitions and galleries, and illustrated for newspapers and magazines. Most of all, she has built a successful career illustrating children's books.
Some well-…
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Roger Vaughan Carr
Melbourne-born Roger Vaughan Carr was a well-known children’s author who wrote school reading texts, novels for adolescents and contributed stories to the Victorian School Paper. He published over 60 books and was shortlisted several times for …
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A.J. Betts
A.J. Betts is an author, teacher, speaker and cyclist. Zac & Mia, the winner of the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, is her third novel for young adults. Her others are ShutterSpeed and Wavelength. She lives in Perth, and …
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Paul Jennings
The Paul Jennings phenomenon began with the publication of Unreal! in 1985. Since then, readers all around the world have devoured his books.
Paul Jennings has written over one hundred stories and has been voted 'favourite author' over forty times…
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Michael Gerard Bauer
Michael Gerard Bauer, is is the award-winning author of Don't Call Me Ishmael.
He has taught English and economics, and lives in the suburb of Ashgrove, Australia…
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Morris Gleitzman
Morris Gleitzman grew up in England and came to Australia when he was sixteen. After university he worked for ten years as a screenwriter. Then he had a wonderful experience. He wrote a novel for young people. Now, after 42 books, he’s one of …
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Garry Disher
Garry Disher has published almost fifty titles – fiction, children’s books, anthologies, textbooks, the Wyatt thrillers and the Mornington Peninsula mysteries.
He has won numerous awards, including the German Crime Prize (twice) and two Ned …
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Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is the international bestselling author of six novels, including The Book Thief and Bridge of Clay. His work is translated into more than forty languages, and has spent more than a decade on the New York Times bestseller list, …
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