Tamara McKinley
Template:Short description Template:Use Australian English Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Tamara McKinley (born 1948) is a British-based Australian author, living in the south of England. She also wrote as Ellie Dean.
She was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1948, but was raised in Devonport until the age of ten, when she accompanied her English grandmother (who had adopted her at age six) to the United Kingdom where she has been based ever since. Although based in Britain, she visits Australia every year to research her novels which are all set there.[1]
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As Ellie Dean, she has also written the Cliffehaven series which has sold more than a million copies.[2]
Her home is in Jevington, East Sussex where she lived with her husband, Geoffrey Oliver "Ollie" Carter until his death in December 2020.[3]
In March 2021 she announced her retirement from writing.[2]
Bibliography
- Matilda's Last Waltz (2000, Piatkus Books)
- Jacaranda Vines (2001, Piatkus Books)
- Windflowers (2002, Piatkus Books)
- Summer Lightning (2003, Piatkus Books)
- Undercurrents (2004, Piatkus Books)
- Dreamscapes (2005, Piatkus Books)
- Lands Beyond the Sea (2007, Hodder & Stoughton)
- A Kingdom for the Brave (2008, Hodder & Stoughton)
- Legacy (2009, Hodder & Stoughton)
- Ocean Child (2010, Quercus)
- Savannah Winds (2014, Quercus)
- Firestorm (2014, Quercus)
- Echoes from Afar (2015, Quercus)
- Spindrift (2017, Quercus)
References
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- ↑ McKinley, Tamara, AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource, 22 October 2009.
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External links
- Official website (archived)
- Tamara McKinley on Goodreads
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- 1948 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Australian novelists
- 21st-century Australian novelists
- Australian women novelists
- Australian expatriates in England
- People from Launceston, Tasmania
- People from Devonport, Tasmania
- 20th-century Australian women writers
- 21st-century Australian women writers