Australian Authors

Simon Rowell Book List

Simon was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He is a graduate of both the University of South Australia and Flinders University. He and his wife, Karen, share their home in rural Victoria with a farm full of rescued animals and a large collection of books. Simon is a lover of baseball, jalapeños and sculpture. Author …

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Jimmy Thomson Book List

Jimmy Thomson has written three military histories, including one about the Australian sappers (Army Engineers) who discovered the famous tunnels of Cu Chi in Vietnam. He’s also written a true crime memoir set in Sydney’s Kings Cross and the biographies of dual rugby internationalist Wendell Sailor and cricketer Shane Watson. He is a successful TV …

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Peter Papathanasiou Book List

Peter Papathanasiou was born in northern Greece and adopted as a baby to an Australian family. His writing has been published internationally by The New York Times, Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Canberra Times, Daily Telegraph, The ABC, SBS, Huffington Post. He also holds an MA in Creative Writing from City University, London, and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from …

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Sara Foster Book List

Sara Foster was born and raised in England and moved to Australia in 2004. Before becoming a writer she worked as a book editor, at first in-house at HarperCollins UK and then freelance. She lives near Perth, Western Australia, with her husband and two young daughters, and is a doctoral candidate with Curtin University. Author …

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Michael Levitt Book List

Michael Levitt is a practising surgeon and health bureaucrat. He is also a sought-after public speaker who in 2003, was awarded the Centenary Medal (in Australia) for services to public education about colorectal cancer. Michael has been collecting art for many years, has been the invited speaker at the launch of art exhibitions and at …

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Sally Bothroyd Book List

Sally Bothroyd lives in Darwin with her partner and daughter. She’s currently the director of the Northern Territory Writers’ Centre, but before that worked for many years as a journalist – both in broadcast and in print. Sally grew up in Victoria and lived in Melbourne in the 1990s. She returned there for a period in …

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Kelli Hawkins Book List

Kelli Hawkins writes reports for a private investigator, as well as working on novels for adults and children. She lives in Newcastle with her two teenagers. Over the years she’s travelled whenever possible and worked all kinds of jobs. Kelli’s been a political journalist, a graphic designer, a mystery shopper – even a staple remover. …

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Robert Jeffreys Book List

Robert Jeffreys has worked as an actor, teacher, builder, labourer, cleaner, real estate agent, personal security agent and playwright of the professionally produced stage plays Cox Four, Covert, The Simple Truth, and The Messenger. ABC Radio National featured his radio plays, Covert, which received an AWGIE award, and Bodily Harm. He has also published a …

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Karen Manton Book List

Karen Manton currently lives and writes in Darwin and Batchelor, Northern Territory, Australia. Her short stories have won five NT Literary awards and are published in various anthologies, including Best Australian Stories. Author website Stand AloneThe Curlew’s Eye (2021)

Anni Taylor Book List

ANNI TAYLOR lives on The Central Coast, north of Sydney, Australia, with her partner and four boys. Previously, she was a Features’ Writer and Community Manager for Fairfax Media, Australia. She writes thrillers under her own name and Young Adult books under the pen name, Anya Allyn Author website Tallman’s Valley Detectives seriesPsychological thriller series …

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