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Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.

I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first book I've written that I've always known I wanted to write. Having said that, it also kept me awake at nights.

I wrote my first full book when I was fourteen, and that was 'Obernewtyn.' It was also the first book I had published. It was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to, and it was short listed for Children's Book of the Year in the older readers category in Australia.

I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.

I had a few stories and longer pieces published, but my first proper novel came in 2003, called 'Dead I Well May Be.'

All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.

This first print run of the first edition of my first novel, 'When The Lion Feeds.' back in 1964, is so rare it can fetch several thousand pounds at auction. I always wanted to be an author, and I decided to write about what I knew.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.