Belinda Castles
Belinda Castles is the award-winning author of four novels, most recently Bluebottle. She has studied and taught in the UK and Australia, recently returning to Sydney from a period as lecturer in creative writing and director of the MA in creative writing at the University of Exeter. She is currently working on an edited collection of essays on Australian fiction for writing students and a novel on literary envy. Her latest novel Bluebottle is set on the northern beaches of Sydney and explores the repercussions of an event in a family’s history. Her last novel, Hannah and Emil, was based on the lives of her grandfather, a German refugee and internee in Australian wartime camps and grandmother, a Russian-Jewish interpreter raised in the West End of London.
