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Christine Bongers

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Biloela, Australia

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Christine Bongers is a former radio and television journalist who is now happier writing fiction.

Christine's latest YA novel "Intruder" won the 2015 Davitt Award for Best Debut Crime Book and was shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers. Her debut novel "Dust" is a CBCA Notable Book for Older Readers and was Highly Commended in the Prime Minister's Literary Awards for Children's Fiction. Her middle-grade novel "Henry Hoey Hobson" was short-listed for the CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers, the Qld Premier's Literary Awards and the WA Premier's Book Awards. "Drongoes" for newly independent readers is published by Scholastic.

She lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband, kids, and a very bad beaglish fur-boy cal ...more

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	Intruder 3.67 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Henry Hoey Hobson 3.97 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Drongoes by Christine Bongers (Goodreads Author), Dan McGuiness (Illustrator) 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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My swansong!

After more than 300 Author Talks, Writing Workshops and Literary events over the past 14 years, I have decided to hang up my microphone.

And what better way to go out than by officiating at a much-loved Readers Cup!

Twenty-four teams battled it out at Moreton Bay College for the Brisbane Bayside Yr 7/8 Readers Cup, and I was in the thick of it, firing off questions as Quiz Master.

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“One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.”
― Hart Crane

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“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
― Saul Bellow

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“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

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“Men have scars, women mysteries.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

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“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

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