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Songbird
Jamila has recently moved from Iraq to Melbourne, and life isn’t anything like it used to be. Now there is safety, and no bombs; but there are also no friends, no familiarity, and no Baba, Jamila’s father. Baba is still back in Iraq, in hiding, waiting to come to his family, uncontactable. Jamila wants to…
I’m Fiona, and I’m a writer of crime fiction and contemporary kids fiction, along with other works such as book reviews, children’s educational readers, and essay-length text messages to my friends.
If you are interested in hiring me to speak, my booking agent is Booked Out.
If you want to speak to my agent (for rights questions, or because you want to want to make one/all of my books immediately into a movie), my agents are Danielle Binks and Jacinta DiMase. If it helps, I’ve already written my Best Screenplay Oscars speech.
Works
Books for Adults
- Unbury the Dead (Affirm Press, March 2025)
Books for Kids
- The Blackout (Forthcoming, Cengage Novastar, 2025)
- The Best Seats in the House (Forthcoming, Cengage Novastar, 2025)
- The Prank Sisters (Cengage Novastar, 2024)
- How to Tackle Your Dreams (Affirm Press, 2022)
- How to Write the Soundtrack to Your Life (Affirm Press, 2020)
- How to Make a Movie in 12 Days, (Affirm Press, 2019)
Other Work
- Route 109: Box Hill to Port Melbourne (A Tramlines podcast produced by Melbourne City of Literature)
- Green Thumbs (winner of the 2024 Scarlet Stiletto HQ Fiction Award for Best Thriller — which you can find in the Sixteenth Cut at this link)
- City of Whitehorse (Reading Victoria)
Fiona Hardy 