Eoin was a wildly funny and profane man.

Christos found international success with his fourth book, The Slap, after almost twenty years as a writer.

Ursula grew up in Darwin, the daughter of a Serbian father and an Aboriginal mother.

Lynne is a science writer who was researching the methods used by ancient cultures to retain vast amounts of information about animals and plants.

James commanded a cavalry troop in southern Iraq and is the author of ANZAC's Long Shadow.

While researching a story for The New Yorker, Jill stumbled on the origin of Wonder Woman, and the story of her remarkable creator, William Moulton Marston.

Jane is the author of two fictionalised books that tell the story of her hero, Queen Elizabeth I.

Elspeth's younger brother, Alexander, died alone and with an extremely high blood-alcohol reading, after a night out with friends.

Philip Bacon used the first money he earned as a teenager to lay-by his first pictures; and gave up his law degree to work in an art gallery.

Bernard Wood's history of human evolution