RICHARD HARLAND
Richard is the author of fourteen published novels for children, teenagers and adults. Since focusing his writing towards younger readers, he has given talks and conducted workshops and other activities at over a hundred schools in NSW, Victoria and Queensland. He has been a schoolteacher and (unconventionally enthusiastic) university lecturer and is famous for his highly dramatic readings from his own books.

Richard’s latest books are the four Wolf Kingdom novels for younger readers in the Fantastica series. The titles are Escape, Under Siege, Race to the Ruins and The Heavy Crown

His other titles are Sassycat and Walter Wants to Be a Werewolf! (in the Aussie Chomps series), and for teenagers, Ferren and the Angel, Ferren and the White Doctor and Ferren and the Invasion of Heaven, a trilogy described by Isobelle Carmody as ‘a profoundly original fantasy’. His new novel, World-Shaker, will be published early in 2009. His adult novels include the Eddon + Vail series and The Black Crusade.

His novels and stories have won four Aurealis Awards, including one Golden Aurealis for best Australian novel in any category of SF, fantasy or horror. He has appeared twice in the CBC Notable Books list, and Sassycat is on the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge list.

Richard was born in England and came out to Newcastle at the age of twenty-two. After several years as a singer, songwriter and poet, he became a lecturer for 10 years at Wollongong University. He always dreamed of writing novels, a dream which came true and he is now a full time writer.

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