Shirley Fenton Huie has lived in many parts of the world including the United Kingdom, Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, the United States, South Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Vanuatu and New Zealand. She was born in western New South Wales, Australia, to a country doctor who always wanted to be a sailor, so from childhood she was surrounded by books of adventure and derring-do. She was lucky to live the life that her father would have loved. Her four children are all grown up and she now lives in Canberra, the most beautiful city in the world.

Author's Pandanus publications

• Someone Else's Country: Living in Suharto's Indonesia

Articles about the author in the Quarterly Bulletin:

• Someone Else's Country