Wife, mother, grandmother, writer, editor, reader, gardener, traveller, house builder and renovator--all of these describe Alana.
Born in England, at four Alana immigrated with her family to Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. In 1980 she moved with husband John and their three children to Canberra, Australia's national capital, to work with the Commonwealth Court Reporting Service. In 2004, after the kids had left home, she and John moved to the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Much as they enjoyed the sun and living by the sea they missed the family, so are now back in Canberra.
They also spend time in Burgess Hill, a lovely part of the UK in West Sussex where their daughter Simone lives with her husband and two sons.
Automaton, a legal thriller, was the first of Alana's novels to be published. It won the Australian Fast Books Prize for Best Fiction and was nominated by Sisters-in-Crime Australia for the Davitt Award. The story is fictional but based on Alana's experiences and observations while working as a court reporter in Canberra in the 1980s.
Imbroglio, also a thriller, is her second novel to be published.
Alana is currently working on another thriller, Dragline, involving corporate crime, the idea for which came from her experience while working as Director Publishing for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
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