Sue Williams (writer)

Sue Williams (born 1959) is a journalist, author, travel writer and university lecturer.
==Contents==
# Life
# Literary career
# Bibliography
##Non-fiction
##3.2 Fiction
##Children’s books
#Awards and nominations
# References
# External links
==Life== 
Sue Williams grew up in Essex, England, just outside London, and attended Durham University where she obtained a BA joint Hons in economics and politics, and later studied in Portsmouth for her journalism NCTJ certificate. Her first journalism job was with the Express & Star Group, the UK’s biggest independent newspaper group, based in the West Midlands of England. 
She travelled for many years around the world, before settling in Auckland, New Zealand, where she worked as a journalist for the Auckland Sun newspaper, and then as a news producer for the national TV broadcaster, TVNZ. 
Sue moved to Sydney, Australia, in 1989 and worked at the Daily Telegraph as a journalist and columnist, with her own TV media show on SBS TV. Later, she worked at the magazine company Australian Consolidated Press, then at The Australian, then the Sun Herald. In 2001, she became a freelance, working for all Australia’s major newspapers and magazines, and regularly appearing on radio and TV.
==Literary Career ==
Sue has written both non-fiction and fiction books for such publishers as HarperCollins, Penguin Australia and Allen & Unwin. They include full biographies, co-authored memoirs and, more recently, historical fiction.
===Non-fiction===
*	Powering Up (Pan Macmillan, 1994)
*	Getting There: Journeys of an Accidental Adventurer (New Holland, 2001)
*	Love, Obsession, Secrets & Lies (with others) (HarperCollins, 2001)
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*	Apartment Living (ABC Books, 2004)
*	Death of a Doctor: How the Medical Profession Turned on One of Their Own (Allen & Unwin, 2005)
*	World Beyond Tears (Harper Collins, 2005)
*	And Then The Darkness (ABC Books/HarperCollins, 2006)
*	Women of the Outback (Penguin, 2008)
*	Love Is In The Air (HarperCollins, 2009)
*	Outback Spirit (Michael Joseph, 2010)
*	No Time For Fear (Penguin, 2011)
*	Welcome to the Outback (Michael Joseph, 2012)
*	Left for Dead (Penguin, 2013)
*	The Last Showman: The Life and Times of an Outback Tent-Boxing Legend (Penguin, 2014)
*	Gene Genius (HarperCollins, 2015)
*	Growing Great Kids (HarperCollins, 2015)
*	Healing Lives (Pan Macmillan, 2020)
*	Daughter of the River Country (Echo Publishing, 2021)
*	Under Her Skin: The Life and work of Professor Fiona Wood (Allen & Unwin 2022)
===Fiction===
*Elizabeth & Elizabeth (Allen & Unwin, 2020)
*That Bligh Girl (Allen & Unwin 2023)
===Children’s Books===
*	Everest Dreaming (Benchmark Education, 2019)
==Critical studies and reviews of Williams’ work==
*	Review of Elizabeth & Elizabeth www.carpelibrum.net/2021/04/review-elizabeth-and-elizabeth-by-sue-williams.html 
*	Review of Elizabeth & Elizabeth by Meg Keneally in the Weekend Australian. 
*	Review of Under Her Skin www.cindylspear.com/news/review-of-under-her-skin-by-sue-williams
*	Review of Under Her Skin lsj.com.au/articles/book-reviews-a-trio-of-summer-reads/ 
*	Review of Healing Lives (Paperbark Words) 
*	Elizabeth & Elizabeth reviewed by Meg Keneally (Weekend Australian, March 13, 2021) 
==Awards and nominations==
*Shortlisted for the international 2006 Gold Dagger Award for the world’s best crime non-fiction for And Then The Darknesshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CWA_Gold_Dagger_for_Non-Fiction. 
*Shortlisted for Ned Kelly Award for And Then The Darkness. 
*Shortlisted for Australian Christian Book of the Year Award 2021 for Healing Lives 
==External Links==
*	Sue Williams’ website 
*	Sue Williams at Penguin 
*	Sue Williams at HarperCollins 
*	Sue Williams at Traveller with the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne Age 
*	Sue Williams at agency Curtis Brown 
*	Rocks and Hard Places
*	Sue Williams explains her love of the world map (article in SMH)
*	Astonishing yet mostly ignored women (Australian Financial Review)
*	Behind the Pen with Sue Williams
*	The Finer Things in Travel: Women in the Brave New World
*	Daughter of the River Country (Central Coast News)
Category:1959 births
Category:Journalists
Category:Author
Category:Travel writers
Category:Lecturers