Diane was born in Poland and arrived in Australia in 1948. At the age of seven she decided to become a writer. Her first article, about teaching at a Blackboard Jungle school in London, was published in The Australian Womens Weekly in 1965. Diane subsequently became a freelance journalist, and over three thousand of her investigative articles, personal experience stories, profiles and travel stories have been published in newspapers and magazines such as Readers Digest and Vogue.
Stand Alone
Winter Journey (2004)
The Collaborator (2019)
Dancing With the Enemy (2021)
The Wild Date Palm (2024)




Non-Crime Books
Nocturne (2008)
Empire Day (2015)