Goldie Alexander has published fiction

Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather, imaginary—that is, invented by the author. Although fiction describes a major branch of literary work, it may also refer to theatrical,...

 and non-fiction

Non-fiction

Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...

 books for adults and children both here and overseas, plus many prizewinning short stories and articles. Her latest how-to-write’ text. for adults is “Mentoring Your Memoir”: She writes for history

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

, crime

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

, science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

, fantasy

Fantasy literature

Fantasy literature is fantasy in written form. Historically speaking, literature has composed the majority of fantasy works. Since the 1950s however, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music, painting, and other...

 and contemporary settings. Her best known book " My Australian Story

My Australian Story

My Australian Story is a series of historical novels for older children published by Scholastic Australia which was inspired by Dear America. Each book is written in the form of a fictional diary of a young person living during an important event or time period in Australian history. ...

: Surviving Sydney Cove", now in its 10th edition. Her latest historical fiction

Historical fiction

Historical fiction tells a story that is set in the past. That setting is usually real and drawn from history, and often contains actual historical persons, but the principal characters tend to be fictional...

 for Young Adults is “The Youngest Cameleer” Her books for older children include the children’s crime novel “Hedgeburners- An AZ PI Mystery”. Also new is her third collection of short stories: “Space Footy and Other Stories”, the companion to ‘My Horrible Cousins and Other Stories”, and “eSide: a contemporary fantasy in five parts”. Her culinary mystery series for adults “Unjust Desserts", "UnKind Cut", and UnFair Coverup” , make up a trilogy of ebooks under the umbrella title of “The Grevillea Murder Mysteries”. Her website is www.goldiealexander.com.

Books for adults and young adults

Body and Soul: Lilbet's Romance
The Grevillea Murder Mysteries:
1.Unjust Desserts
2.Unkind Cut
3. UnFair Coverup
Mentoring Your Memoir

Books for kids

• "My Australian Story: Surviving Sydney Cove"
• "Killer Virus and Other Stories"
• "Astronet"
• "Cowpat$"
• Starship Q
• Trapeze
• Hedgeburners: An A~Z PI Mystery.
• My Horrible Cousins and Other Stories
• Space Footy and Other Stories

Books for younger children

• 6788
• Seawall
• The Little Big School
• Shape Shifters
• Bridging the Snowy
• Beyond the Thicket

Books for very little readers

• A Hairy Story
• An Interview with Cindy Centipede
• Captain Gallant
• The History of Bread
• Lame Duck Protest

Short stories for children and adults

• Arachnida
• Suffer Little Children
• Seawall
• Mirror Play
• Wimbledon Avenue
• Alley-Cat
• Chicken
• First Kiss
• Falling
• Blind Date
• Next time we’ll go by plane
• Silver Paper
• Space Gypsies
• Eating Nemo
• The Devil's in the Daughters
• Jack and the GM Beanstalk

Plays co-authored with Hazel Edwards

Hazel Edwards

Hazel Edwards is an Australian author who has written 200 books, including the classic children's book, There's a Hippopotamus on our Roof Eating Cake, which recently celebrated its 30th anniversary and a short film Since its publication in 1981, the age-less Hippopotamus on the roof has been...

• Right and Wrong Clsssroom Plays.
• Health and Understanding Maga series
• Dramatics: A Resource Book
• The Business of Writing for Young People.

Awards

• Scholarship for the Romanian Writers Exchange Program September 2005
• Australian Society of Authors
  Australian Society of Authors
  The Australian Society of Authors is the peak body representing Australia's literary creators and is the major advocate for the rights and remuneration of authors in Australia...
  
  Mentor program 2005-2006
• 2000 & 2001 Mary Grant Bruce Award for two long short stories
• Mavis Road Medley. CBC Notable Book. Short Listed by the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Youth Literature 150 best Book
• Easternport Bay - Victorian Ministry of Arts Writing grant
• My Australian Story: Surviving Sydney Cove - CBC Notable Book
• Cassie’s Big Swim - Brant Point Literary prize
• Body and Soul - Brant Point Literary prize

External links

• Goldie Alexanders' official homepage