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Graham Wilson lives in Sydney Australia. He has completed and published nine books. They comprise two series, 1. The Old Balmain House Series 2. The Crocodile Spirit Dreaming Series along with a family memoir. Children of Arnhem's Kaleidoscope The first series starts with The Old Balmain House, based on a cottage in Sydney where a photo was discovered of a small girl who died 100 years ago. It imagines her life based in an early inner Sydney suburb. The second novel in this series, Lizzie's Tale is the story of a working class teenage girl who lives in this same house in the 1950s. When she becomes pregnant she is determined not to surrender her baby for adoption, and struggles to survive in this unforgiving society. The third novel in this series, Devil's Choice, is the story of Lizzie's daughter who is faced with the awful choice of whether to seek the help of one of her mother's rapists' to try to save the life of her own daughter who is inflicted with an incurable disease. The Crocodile Spirit Dreaming Series comprises five novels based in Outback Australia. The first novel tells the story of an English backpacker, Susan, who becomes captivated and in great danger from a man who loves crocodiles. The second book in the series, Crocodile Man, follows the discovery of this man's remains and his diary and Susan, being placed on trial for murder. The third book, The Empty Place, is about her struggle to retain sanity in jail while her family and friends try to find out what really happened that fateful day. In Lost Girls Susan vanishes. It is the story of the search for her and four other lost girls whose passports were found in the possession of the man she killed. The final book, Sunlit Shadow Dance, is of a girl who appears in a remote aboriginal community in North Queensland, without memory except for a name.She rebuilds her life from an empty shell but, as fragments of the past return, dark shadows come that threaten to overwhelm her. Arnhem Lands's Children, is about the author's life in the Northern Territory. It tells of his childhood in an aboriginal community in remote Arnhem Land, in Australia's Northern Territory, one of its last frontiers. It tells of the people, danger and beauty of this place, and of its transformation over the last half century with the coming of aboriginal rights and the discovery or uranium. It also tells of his surviving an attack by a large crocodile and of his work over two decades in the outback of the NT.

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