About

Alison is the author of eight novels and her most recent release, The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies, is an adventure/mystery set in the Regency era. It is the first book in The Ill-Mannered Ladies series and recently won the 2024 Readers’ Choice Davitt Award and was long-listed in the 2023 ARA Historical Novel Award.

Her award winning Lady Helen dark fantasy trilogy has been described as ‘Buffy meets Pride and Prejudice’. The first book in the series, The Dark Days Club, was a 2017 CBCA Notable Book for Older Readers, a 2017 Bank Street Library Best Book and an NPR Best Book of 2016. The second book, The Dark Days Pact, won the 2016 Aurealis Award for Best YA Novel. The third and final novel in the series, The Dark Days Deceit, was an Aurealis Award finalist.

Alison is also the author of the New York Times bestselling fantasy duology EON and EONA. Her award winning debut novel, Singing the Dogstar Blues, was first published in 1998 and is still in print, and her very adult thriller, A New Kind of Death, was a Davitt Award finalist under its original title Killing the Rabbit.

Alison can dance a mean contra-dance, has a wardrobe full of historically accurate Regency clothes and will travel a long way for a good High Tea. She lives in Melbourne, Australia and was recently awarded her PhD at the University of Queensland so can now call herself Dr Al.

And for those who may be interested, the mysterious woman on the website home page (and headers) giving extreme side-eye and excellent red lip is Alison on her wedding day.

Author Photo by Tania Jovanovic