"I'd have to say that when I finished school I didn't have much understanding of life," John Marsden admitted in an autobiographical essay in Something about the Author Autobiography Series (SAAS). Marsden, the well-known author of books about...

THERE IS SOMETHING profoundly disturbing about High Court Judge Michael Kirby referring to the late Sydney lawyer John Marsden's paedophilia as "faults and foibles". This disturbance is further compounded by the fact that our legal system protected John Marsden's name, allowing him to...

A seven-book series for young readers that creates a national sensation, winning literary prizes never before awarded to children's fiction, with new installments catapulting to the top of bestseller lists? No, not Harry Potter. It's the series that launched in author John Marsden's...