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Occupation
  
Novelist

Nationality
  
Australia


Name
  
Jack Heath

Role
  
Writer

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Born
  
23 August 1986 (age 37) (
1986-08-23
)

Genre
  
Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction

Books
  
The Lab, Scream: The Spider Army, Salem VI: Chain of Souls:, Chain of Souls: Evil Lies in th, Salem VI

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Jack Heath is an Australian writer of children's and young adult fiction. He has been shortlisted for the CBCA Notable Book Award, Nottinghamshire Brilliant Book Award, the Aurealis Sci-Fi book of the Year, the National Year of Reading "Our Story" Collection, a Young Australians Best Book Award, a Kids Own Australian Literature Award and the Young Australian of the Year Award. He lives in Canberra.

Contents

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Genre and style

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Heath's young adult novels are mysteries, characterised by the frequent juxtaposition of elaborate action set pieces and moral philosophy. They usually include science fiction technologies or settings, and are almost always set in an ambiguous location.

As a public figure

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Heath has taught creative writing at the Canberra Institute of Technology, been featured in the Shanghai World Expo and spent a year reading only books by women in an effort to raise the profile of female authors.

Stand-alone novels

  • Ink, Inc. (Dec 2013)
  • Replica (Aug 2014)

    • The Fero Files

  • The Cut Out (Aug 2015) – a Children's Book Council of Australia notable book and shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction Novel
  • The Fail Safe (Sep 2016) - a Children's Book Council of Australia notable book

    • The Danger Series

  • 300 Minutes Of Danger (Sep 2015) - a Children's Book Council of Australia notable book
  • 400 Minutes Of Danger (Aug 2016)
  • 500 Minutes Of Danger (Aug 2017)
  • Countdown To Danger: Bullet Train Disaster (Feb 2016)
  • Countdown To Danger: Shockwave (May 2016)
  • Countdown To Danger: Deadly Heist (February 2017)

    • The Scream Series

  • The Human Flytrap (May 2015)
  • The Spider Army (May 2015)
  • The Haunted Book (Aug 2015)
  • The Squid Slayer (Aug 2015)

    • Ashley Arthur series (in chronological order)

  • Money Run (2008) – shortlisted for the Nottinghamshire Brilliant Book Award
  • Hit List (2010) – shortlisted for the National Year of Reading "Our Story" Collection, a YABBA and a KOALA

    • Six of Hearts series (in chronological order)

  • The Lab (2006)
  • Remote Control (2007) – shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Science-Fiction Novel
  • Third Transmission (2009) – excerpt published in The Invisible Thread: One Hundred Years of Words
  • Dead Man Running (2012)

    • Short stories

  • Sleep (published in Voiceworks, issue #65), 2006
  • The Mistress (published in Voiceworks, issue #68), 2007
  • Right-angles and hair (published in The Sex Mook), 2007
  • Emma (published in lip, issue #16), 2008
  • 404 (published on jackheath.com.au), 2008
  • Freak Show (published by the State Library of Queensland), 2008
  • The Beach (written for Salon 3 – Stoker and Shelley, and published on Tara Moss's blog, The Book Post), 2009
  • Method Living, 2010
  • Flesh (written for Salon 5 – Pinol and Wells, and published on The Book Post), 2010
  • The Caretakers, 2011

    • References

    Jack Heath Wikipedia
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