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Jaclyn Moriarty

Australia
Sister of Liane Moriarty and Nicola Moriarty

Jaclyn Moriarty lives in Australia.

Jaclyn's young-adult novels, Feeling Sorry for Celia and The Year of Secret Assignments, are both international bestsellers.

Genres: Children's Fiction

New and upcoming books

August 2026

Astrid's Tale
(Kingdoms and Empires, book 6)

August 2026

Time Travel for Beginners

Series

Ashbury/Brookfield
   1. Feeling Sorry for Celia (2000)
   2. Finding Cassie Crazy (2003)
     aka The Year of Secret Assignments
   3. Becoming Bindy Mackenzie (2006)
     aka The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie
   4. Dreaming of Amelia (2010)
     aka The Ghosts of Ashbury High

Colours of Madeleine Trilogy
   1. A Corner of White (2013)
   2. The Cracks in the Kingdom (2014)
   3. A Tangle of Gold (2016)

Kingdoms and Empires
   1. The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (2018)
   2. The Slightly Alarming Tale of the Whispering Wars (2018)
   3. The Stolen Prince of Cloudburst (2021)
   4. The Astonishing Chronicles of Oscar from Elsewhere (2022)
   5. The Secret of Lillian Velvet (2023)
     aka The Impossible Secret of Lillian Velvet
   6. Astrid's Tale (2026)

Novels

   I Have a Bed Made of Buttermilk Pancakes (2005)
   The Spell Book of Listen Taylor (2007)
   Gravity Is the Thing (2019)
   The Whispering Wars (2019)
   Time Travel for Beginners (2026)

Novellas and Short Stories

Competition Entry #349 (2017)

Books containing stories by Jaclyn Moriarty

Funny Bones (2019)

Begin, End, Begin (2017)
A #LoveOzYA Anthology
edited by
Danielle Binks

Laugh Your Head Off Again (2016)

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Award nominations

	2017 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story (nominee) : Competition Entry #349
	2013 Andre Norton Award (nominee) : A Corner of White

Jaclyn Moriarty recommends

Circle of Wonders (2026)
Kathryn Heyman
"It is breathtaking, ruthless and healing. Beautiful and profoundly moving and riveting. I think this will be a very important book. And enormously meaningful to many people. What a gift."

Road Tripping with Pearl Nash (2021)
Poppy Nwosu
"I had a wonderful time reading this-the building romance is so perfectly, beautifully complex, original, authentic and sexy."

The Mistake (2021)
Katie McMahon
"An amazing, irresistible read . . . I couldn't put this down!"

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