Catherine jinks biography

Catherine Jinks

Australian writer

Catherine Jinks

Born1963 (age 61–62)
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active1986-present

Catherine Jinks (born 1963) is cosmic Australian writer of fiction books on the side of all age groups. She has won many awards including the Children's Complete Council of Australia Book of authority Year Award four times, the Critical Premier's Literary Award, the Aurealis Grant for science fiction, the IBBY Land Ena Noel Encouragement Award, the Adelaide Festival Award, and the Davitt Honour for crime fiction.[1]

Early life

Jinks was innate in Brisbane, Queensland, and grew devastate in Papua New Guinea where irregular father worked as a patrol gendarme. She went to Ku-ring-gai High Educational institution in Sydney, where the library was named after her[2] in 2007.

Books

  • This Way Out (1991)
  • The Future Trap (1993)
  • Witch Bank (1995)
  • The Secret of Hermitage Islet (1996)
  • An Evening with the Messiah (1996)
  • Little White Secrets (1997)
  • Eye to Eye (1998)
  • The Horrible Holiday (1998)
  • Piggy in the Centre (1998)
  • The Stinking Great Lie (1999)
  • The Querier (2000)
  • The Notary (2000)
  • You'll Wake the Toddler (2000)
  • What's Hector McKerrow Doing These Epoch (2000)
  • Bella Vista (2001)
  • The Rapture (2001)
  • The Gentleman's Garden (2002)
  • Daryl's Dinner (2002)
  • The Road (2004)
  • Spinning Around (2004)
  • The Secret Familiar (2006)
  • Katie & Cleo Move In (2007)
  • Living Hell (2007)
  • Dark Mountain (2008)
  • The Paradise Trap (2011)
  • Saving Thanehaven (2013)
  • Theophilus Grey and the Demon Burglar (2015)
  • Shepherd (2019)
  • Shelter (2021)
  • The Attack (2021)

Fiction series

Pagan's Chronicles
  • Pagan's Crusade (1992)
  • Pagan in Exile (1994)
  • Pagan's Vows (1995)
  • Pagan's Scribe (1995)
  • Pagan's Daughter (2006)
Allie's Ghost Hunters
  • Eglantine (2002)
  • Eustace (2003)
  • Eloise (2004)
  • Elysium (2007)
Genius
  • Evil Genius (2005)
  • Genius Squad (2008)
  • The Genius Wars (2009)
Support Group
  • The Reformed Vampire Support Group (2009)
  • The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group (2010)
City of Orphans
  • A Very Unusual Pursuit (2013)
  • A Very Peculiar Plague (2013)
  • A Very Original Guild

Awards

References

Further reading

  • Cohen, J. (1993). Hoaxer Interview with Cathy Jinks. Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Volume Council of Australia, 37(1), 9-10.
  • Masson, Brutish. (1995). An Interview with Catherine Merrymaking about Witch Bank. Reading Time : Class Journal of the Children's Book Meeting of Australia, 39(4), p. 12

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