Belinda Murrell
Belinda Murrell worked as a travel writer and journalist before becoming the award-winning author of more than 35 books, ranging from picture books and junior fiction to adult non-fiction. Belinda’s books include The Golden Tower and The Silver Sea, popular series The Sun Sword, Lulu Bell and Pippa’s Island, historical novels The Ivory Rose, The Locket of Dreams, The Forgotten Pearl and The Lost Sapphire and an adult non-fiction bibliomemoir, Searching for Charlotte. Accolades include Honour Book KOALAS, shortlisted nine times for YABBA (Young Australians Best Book Award), CBCA Notable 2012 and 2017 and highly commended in the PM’s Literary Awards. In 2018, Belinda won the KOALA Legend award for her contribution to Australian children’s literature and in 2023 won the Society of Women Writers Di Yerbury Award, a three month residency in the UK. Her latest junior fiction series is The Daredevil Princess, about a brave little girl solving mysteries in the Queendom of Blumenfield together with a very sassy unicorn. www.belindamurrell.com.au