Hi readers,My new novel, Judge Rosa Somberly: The Caiman v Tau al-Gorz is for kids and older fantasy readers alike. Fast action, mystery, monsters and time travel - it's all there - but at the heart of the story is the clash between unrelenting progress and the natural world.Thanks to a young urban explorer and art thief, Benji, you break into the world of The Court of Last Resort through a padlocked attic, where justice rules and anyone (or anything) can seek out the Judge. In this court, the Judge is young Rosa who's Papa dies during a cataclysmic chess game. Because of his untimely death, Rosa becomes the judge before she's ready and with Benji's help, has to learn judging to bring the world into balance. You'll meet angry cats, an ogre with his mad tattoos, tired cops, and a gang of art thieves who team up with Rosa to solve the ancient mystery.My books are always fast paced action adventures but with a simple message. Look after the planet!The Capricorn Sky was published in 2020. The sequel, The Kyoto Bell was published in July 2021 - they are speculative thrillers set in a climate changed Australia (and Japan) a hundred years from now.I've written a gazillion short stories, plus plays, musicals, jokes, songs, poems, pantomimes, press releases, speeches, reportage, comedy, features, editorials, you name it, but … I've always been a paid-up member of the fiction faction and my first real love is the novel. A novel is a great river of imagination where both writer and reader, both young and old, can plunge and be pulled along in those twisty currents of ideas, images, conversations, stories.As for my personal deets (thanks for asking) I was born in Scotland, but my family moved to Australia’s tropical North where I grew up. There I worked as both a journalist and sometime playwright and musician. I moved to Canberra in the 1990’s working in Federal Politics for the Labor Party. I also worked for a time at the Australian Institute of Criminology which tuned up my understanding of the both criminality and the justice system. What I have encountered over the years, I now use as inspiration to write fiction.Read more about this authorRead less about this author