John D Nairn writes warm-hearted Australian fiction set in and around Bondi Beach through the war years and the decade after. His books share one close-knit stretch of postwar Sydney and range across many shelves: gentle seaside mysteries, wartime homefront stories, a Pavilion romance, literary drama at the winter swimming club, and a run of shorts told from a terrier's point of view.
What holds them together is not a formula but a place and its people: widows and teachers, librarians and lifesavers, conductresses and codebreakers, all finding their feet after the war, with a dog never far from the action.
He lives in Australia, within reach of the surf.
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