Rebecca James (author)

For other people with the same name, see Rebecca James (disambiguation).

Rebecca James
Born1970
Sydney, Australia
OccupationNovelist
GenreYoung adult, Thriller
Notable worksBeautiful Malice
Website
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Rebecca James (born 1970 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian writer of Young Adult fiction.

Biography

Rebecca spent her early twenties working as a waitress, her late twenties teaching English in Indonesia and Japan, and most of her thirties having babies and working as a kitchen designer.

She lives in Australia with her partner and their five children.

Novels

  • Beautiful Malice, published by Bantam Books in 2010.[1]
  • Sweet Damage, published by Allen & Unwin in 2013.
  • Cooper Bartholomew is Dead, published by Allen & Unwin in 2014.[2]
  • The Woman in the Mirror, published by HarperCollins HQ in 2018.[3]

Pre-publication media interest

The Wall Street Journal wrote an article on 23 October 2009 asking whether James could be 'The Next JK Rowling.'[4] It also said, of Beautiful Malice, that it 'isn't merely to be published, but has become a publishing phenomenon that is sparking an aggressive bidding war worldwide.'

In April 2010, The Bookseller ran an interview with James, in which the interviewer describes the novel as having 'strong international appeal.'[2]

References

  1. ^ "C&W Agency". cwagency.co.uk.
  2. ^ a b O'Keeffe, Alice. "Aussie rules". Archived from the original on 25 May 2010.
  3. ^ "The Woman in the Mirror: A haunting gothic story of obsession, tinged with suspense by Rebecca James - Paperback | HarperCollins". HarperCollins UK. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
  4. ^ Alberge, Dalya (23 October 2009). "From Down Under, the Next J.K. Rowling?". The Wall Street Journal – via www.wsj.com.