Published Books
...and more

It's available at last. 'Kangaroo's Visitor gets a Surprise', my first picture-storybook, has finally been released.

It's available in paperback from Trafford (Click here for more details) . A slightly different version can be purchased as an ebook from Writers Exchange (Cick here for details) .

It's been exquisitely illustrated by Gail Breese and I'm sure kids will love it.





You'll find some more pictures and excerpts from it, plus things to make or do, and true facts about the Australian wildlife used as characters in the story at My New Book.

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Here are a few things I've had published over the years.



'The Australian Manual of Calligraphy' was first published by Allen and Unwin in 1987, and it went to several reprints. Unwin Hyman, a branch of HarperCollins , also published it in the UK and New Zealand in 1988 under the title 'A Manual of Calligraphy'.

They're out of print now, but still in libraries and secondhand copies of both are usually available on www.Amazon.com and eBay. (eBay copies are usually cheaper.)

All 208 pages were written by hand in calligraphy. One day I may type it out and make it available on CD or in pdf format, but all the diagrams and colour plates may make it a bit slow to download. I'll have to experiment.

At talks, I can show people how the book was created. At one time it involved a team of Chinese 'surgeons' dissecting the printing plates with scalpels to produce colour separations.

I've written and illustrated articles for periodicals. This is one that my work appears in.

'Developing Your Own Style and Voice', appears in the February / March 2004 edition of the Writing For Success Newsletter - www.writing4success-newletter.com. If you don't subscribe to it already, I recommend it. You can download a free copy to look at first.

In October 2006, Pearson published an article I wrote and illustrated in their 'Explore Magazine', which they describe as 'Australia's National Children's Magazine'. The topic for the edition was 'Fancy That!' - so my article was on 'fancy writing' - calligraphy. I also did the fancy O for the magazine title.

This one I wrote for the museum where I worked as the Curator of Natural History.


Books are like children and I love all the ones that I've written. Usually the most recent one, or the one that I'm working on at present is the favourite, but this little one from long ago is high on the 'all-time favourites' list.



It's a collection of obscure facts about some British plants, and I did the illustrations too. It was published by the Hertfordshire and Middlesex Trust for Nature Conservation.

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I hope I will be able to add to this section of the site.

I have several books completed and hot off the writing-desk, for which I would like to find publishers, and more in progress, but I'll tell you about them on other web pages.