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Julia Lawrinson

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Julia Lawrinson is an Australian writer of children's and young adult fiction. Her debut novel Obsession (Fremantle Press, 2001) won the Western Australian Premier's Prize for Young Adult Writing: since then her work has been shortlisted for numerous awards. Her latest book is Chess Nuts (Puffin 2010), and she's working on a novel about four girls, one boy and a secret.


On Tuesday I was interviewed on national radio for the first time. I'm not quite sure how it happened: I got a call from the producer of Books and Arts Daily and next thing it's early in the morning and I'm waiting nervously to go into the ABC studios to talk about YA lit and sex (my special topic, I know).

I was joined by the mellifluous and marvellous Margo Lanagan and the superb and savvy S... read more »
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Average rating: 3.48 · 268 ratings · 59 reviews · 9 distinct works · Similar authors
Losing It
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions
Bye, Beautiful
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2006
The Push
3.21 of 5 stars 3.21 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2008
Chess Nuts
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2010
Skating the Edge
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2002
Suburban Freak Show
3.43 of 5 stars 3.43 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2006
Obsession
3.09 of 5 stars 3.09 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2001
Bad Bad Thing
3.11 of 5 stars 3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2005
Loz and Al
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2004
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“They say you see stars, when you hit the back of your head like that, but Billy was facing upwards, and he could not tell whether the stars in his eyes were from the pulsing whites of country stars. There is nothing like the night sky in the country, the spongy purple of it, the stars with their own heartbeats, the things out there that you cannot see.”
Julia Lawrinson, Bye, Beautiful

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