Jack Heath

Jack Heath is an Australian writer of fiction for children and adults who is best known for the Danger, Scream, Liars and Timothy Blake series. CBCA Notable Book Award, Nottinghamshire Brilliant Book Award, the Aurealis Sci-Fi book of the Year, the National Year of Reading "Our Story" Collection, a Young Australians Best Book Award, a Kids Own Australian Literature Award and the Australian of the Year Award. He lives in Gungahlin, Canberra.

Genre and style Heath's young adult novels are mysteries, characterised by the frequent juxtaposition of elaborate action set pieces and moral philosophy. They usually include science fiction technologies or settings, and are almost always set in an ambiguous location.

As a public figure Heath was featured in the Shanghai World Expo.

Books

Stand-alone novels Ink, Inc. (Dec 2013) Replica (Aug 2014) Kill Your Brother (July 2021) Kill Your Husbands (Nov 2023) Doctor Who: Frankenstein and the Patchwork Man (April 2025) Kill Your Boss (Nov 2025)

The Liars series

Sources:

The Truth App (1 Sep 2018) No Survivors (also published as The Missing Passenger, 1 Dec 2018) The Set Up (1 March 2019) Lockdown (1 June 2019) Armageddon (1 Sep 2019)

The Fero Files

Source:

The Cut Out (Aug 2015) – a Children's Book Council of Australia notable book and shortlisted for the Aurealis Award for Best Children's Fiction Novel The Fail Safe (Sep 2016) - a Children's Book Council of Australia notable book, shortlisted for ACT Book of the Year

The Danger Series 300 Minutes Of Danger (Sep 2016) - a Children's Book Council of Australia notable book 400 Minutes Of Danger (Aug 2017)

Ashley Arthur series Money Run (2008) – shortlisted for the Nottinghamshire Brilliant Book Award Dead Man Running (2012)

Timothy Blake series Hangman (Jan 2018) Hunter (also published as Just One Bite, Mar 2019) Hideout (Dec 2020) Headcase (Nov 2022)

Short stories Sleep (published in Voiceworks, issue #65), 2006 The Mistress (published in Voiceworks, issue #68), 2007 Right-angles and hair (published in The Sex Mook), 2007 Emma (published in lip, issue #16), 2008 404 (published on jackheath.com.au), 2008 Freak Show (published by the State Library of Queensland ), 2008 The Beach (written for Salon 3 – Stoker and Shelley, and published on Tara Moss's blog, The Book Post), 2009 Method Living, 2010 Flesh (written for Salon 5 – Pinol and Wells, and published on The Book Post), 2010 The Caretakers, 2011