Roger Simpson
Roger Simpson is one of Australia’s leading producers and scriptwriters. He has created seventeen series for television including the highly acclaimed telemovie series Halifax F.P. (1995-2001) which won awards in every category during its record …
Randa Abdel-Fattah
Randa Abdel-Fattah is a prominent Palestinian Egyptian Muslim author, academic, human rights advocate, former lawyer and mother of four children. The award-winning author of eleven novels, published and translated in over 20 countries, Randa writes across …
Rae Cairns
Rae Cairns is inspired by everyday people facing extraordinary circumstances. The Good Mother draws on her background mentoring disadvantaged youth, many of them children of the paramilitaries, in Northern Ireland during the final years of …
Rachel Franks
Rachel Franks holds PhDs in Australian Crime fiction from Central Queensland University and True Crime Texts from the University of Sydney. A qualified educator and librarian, her work on crime fiction, true crime, popular culture …
Phillipa McGuinness
Phillipa McGuinness is the author of The Year Everything Changed-2001, shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and the editor of Copyfight. She has written for The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, Meanjin and Inside Story. …
Petronella McGovern
Petronella McGovern grew up on in a large family on a farm in the Central West of New South Wales. After travelling and working in Canberra for a number of years, she now lives on …
Peta McGillivray
Peta MacGillivray (BA/LLB; Grad. Dip Legal Prac; LLM; PhD Candidate) is a Kalkutungu and South Sea Islander lawyer and researcher based in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW. Peta has worked as a …
Pamela Hart
Pamela Hart is an award-winning, bestselling author of more than 40 books. She writes the Poppy McGowan mystery series as well as historical novels. The Charleston Scandal is her most recent historical story, set in …
Nina D. Campbell
Nina D. Campbell studied theatre and literature at university before stumbling into the world of work in the midst of the recession that we had to have. She cobbled together a respectable career as a …
Nicholas Cowdery
Nicholas Cowdery AO QC FAAL was Director of NSW Public Prosecutions from 1994 to 2011. He has spent over 50 years in criminal justice as a prosecutor, defender, judge and teacher. He now teaches criminal …