Dr Kathryn Fox

Kathryn Fox is a medical practitioner with a special interest in forensic medicine who currently lives in Sydney, Australia. She has worked as a freelance medical journalist and written regularly for publications including Australian Doctor, The Sun Herald and CLEO magazine. Her debut novel, MALICIOUS INTENT, received international acclaim and won the 2005 Davitt award for adult fiction. It also toppled The Da Vinci Code to become the no. 1 crime book on Amazon in the UK and Germany. WITHOUT CONSENT was released in May 2006 in Australia and became of the top Australian fiction books for the year. SKIN AND BONE, features Detective Kate Farrer, who first appeared in Malicious Intent. It is now available in the UK, Sth Africa, Australia, NZ, Germany, and other countries will follow. Kathryn will be travelling to the US for the launch in July. The next Anya Crichton thriller, BLOOD BORN, due for release in Australia August 31st, and September for the US. UK will follow in November. In her spare time, Kathryn likes to indulge in some of her favourite pastimes - playing the harp (very badly), scrapbooking and ebay. Kathryn has recently combined her passions for medicine and reading with creation of the 'READ FOR LIFE' project. To an illiterate person, reading means life. So many of us take reading for granted, but a mother who cannot read a medicine bottle cannot even give her child the medication needed to combat life-threatening infections. READ FOR LIFE collects and sends children's books to indigenous and remote communities in which poor literacy levels are directly correlated with poor health and increased infant death rates. For more information and how you might be able to help recycle your quality kids' books, please stay tuned for the addition of the READ FOR LIFE link.