ABOUT ME
I am an archivist, librarian and freelance book editor in regional Queensland. I grew up in Brisbane and started my career as a physiotherapist practising in New South Wales, before moving back to Queensland and retraining as a librarian. My fascination with Australian history inspired me to write my Australian Bushrangers series to share the colourful lives of these bushranging legends with younger readers - to show kids that history is far from boring and sometimes truth is even more entertaining than fiction. I have uncovered new facts and dispelled many of the myths that have surrounded these characters for years. My book Captain Thunderbolt was shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award in 2015. The series led me to write historical fiction for younger readers: the 'Tommy Bell, bushranger boy' series. The first in the series, Shoot-out at the Rock, was included on the Children's Book Council of Australia list of 'notables' in 2017.
MY BOOKS (For more information SEE HERE)
I am an archivist, librarian and freelance book editor in regional Queensland. I grew up in Brisbane and started my career as a physiotherapist practising in New South Wales, before moving back to Queensland and retraining as a librarian. My fascination with Australian history inspired me to write my Australian Bushrangers series to share the colourful lives of these bushranging legends with younger readers - to show kids that history is far from boring and sometimes truth is even more entertaining than fiction. I have uncovered new facts and dispelled many of the myths that have surrounded these characters for years. My book Captain Thunderbolt was shortlisted for an Australian Book Industry Award in 2015. The series led me to write historical fiction for younger readers: the 'Tommy Bell, bushranger boy' series. The first in the series, Shoot-out at the Rock, was included on the Children's Book Council of Australia list of 'notables' in 2017.
MY BOOKS (For more information SEE HERE)
- Generations of Care: St Vincent's Private Hospital Toowoomba in Pictures 1922-2022, published by SVPHT
- Ship of Death: The Tragedy of the 'Emigrant' (shortlisted for the 2021 Frank Broeze Memorial Maritime History Book Prize)
- Captain Starlight: The Strange But True Story of a Bushranger, Impostor and Murderer, published by Big Sky Publishing.
- The 'Carly Mills Pioneer Girl' series published by Big Sky Publishing:
- A New World
- Emergency!
- Superstar
- The Lady with the Lamp.
- The 'Tommy Bell Bushranger Boy' series published by Big Sky Publishing:
- Shoot-out at the Rock (a CBCA 'notable' book in 2017)
- The Horse Thief
- The Gold Escort Gang
- Outback Adventure
- Gang of Thieves
- Mrs Thunderbolt
- The Runaway (shortlisted for a Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Prize 2019)
- The Masked Man.
- The 'Australian Bushrangers' series published by Big Sky Publishing in 2014:
- Captain Thunderbolt
- Captain Moonlite
- Captain Starlight
- Ben Hall
- Frank Gardiner
- The Story of The Swamp published by Toowoomba City Library in 2008.
