Australian writer of books for younger readers, young adults, verse novels and poetry.

Catherine Bateson is a poet and writer for young adults and younger readers.

She lives in Kallista with her husband, a rescue dog called Winter,  a wide assortment of tropical fish and whichever children have moved back home as well as her octogenarian mother.

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  • Dystopian fiction – winter pick-me-up?

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    But I’d been wanting to read Philip K. Dick’s classic for years and not got around to it. And I was surprised – it’s grimly funny, very prescient

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  • The Book of Alchemy

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    I was first alerted to The Book of Alchemy, A Creative Practice for an Inspired life, when my substack feed featured a post by Suleika Jaouad. She is a memoirist (Between Two Kingdoms) and a columnist for the New York Times and the creator of the weekly newsletter and global community, ‘The Isolation Journals’ on Substack.

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