Michael Wilding’s documentary 'Wild Bleak Bohemia: Marcus Clarke, Adam Lindsay Gordon and Henry Kendall' won the Colin Roderick Award and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction. His recent publications include the memoir 'Growing Wild', the essays' Wild About Books' and the novels featuring the private investigator Plant – 'The Prisoner of Mount Warning', 'The Magic of It', 'In the Valley of the Weed', 'Little Demon' and 'The Travel Writer'. He is Emeritus Professor of English and Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.
