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Julia Blackburn has written five books of non-fiction - Charles Waterton, The Emperor's Last Island, Daisy Bates in the Desert, Old Man Goya and With Billie - a family memoir, The Three of Us, which won the 2009 J. R. Ackerley Award, and two novels, The Book of Colour and The Leper's Companions, both of which were shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the author of seventeen short stories specially commisioned by BBC Radio, a selection of which were published in My Animals and Other Family, and four radio plays, including The Spellbound Horses.
'Daisy Bates was a liar' writes Blackburn as she steers her way through the many versions of her life that Daisy put about. She was also a courageous Irish woman of great charm who dedicated her life to studying and helping the aborigines in the South Australian desert. In this enchanting memoir Blackburn recreates her brave eccentric by fusing her own experience with Daisy's so convincingly that we sit spellbound not knowing which of them tells this harsh but magical tale. (Kirkus UK)
