Catherine Jinks

AUTHOR ED TOOL

CATHERINE Jinks’ books for children, teenagers and adults have been published to wide acclaim throughout the world and have won numerous awards. She is a four-time winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award, and has also won a Victorian Premier’s Literature Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, the Ena Noel Award for Children’s Literature and an Aurealis Award for Science Fiction. In 2001 she was presented with a Centenary Medal for her contribution to Australian Children’s Literature. Born in Brisbane Jinks grew up in Papua New Guinea and later studied medieval history at the University of Sydney. After working for several years in a bank, she married a Canadian journalist, and lived for a short time in Nova Scotia, Canada. She is now a full-time writer, residing in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Her latest book Charlatan: the Dishonest Life and Dishonoured

MEET CATHERINE JINKS:

In conversation with ABC Radio National’s Paul Barclay. 6:00 PM. Tickets $10: avidreader.com.au

(above North Lakes Library, Brisbane). Free. moretonbay.qld.gov.au/libraries

Loves of Thomas Guthrie Carr, Stage Mesmerist is the story of a nineteenth century court case involving Thomas Guthrie Carr, a notorious, larger-than-life character who made his living as a mesmerist, phrenologist, public speaker and, some say, charlatan.

A FRAMEWORK FOR TRANSFORMATION CLASSROOMS

Initiated by educator, entrepreneur and visionary Angela Maiers, Choose2Matter is a call to action that invites everyone, especially school communities, to make “mattering” a way of life. Choose2Matter has grown from a few classrooms to a reach of nearly 60,000 classrooms, across 100 countries, touching more than a million students a year. Maiers’ Choose2Matter’s Liberating Genius framework challenges people in these three ways: ACCEPT, ACCELERATE and ACT.