Award Nomination for Audiobook

Congratulations to Mandy Williams, who narrated the Listening Library’s audiobook of ‘How to Catch a Bogle’. Her work has been nominated for a Voice Arts Award, in the category of ‘Audio Book Narration – Children (ages 6 to 12), Best Female Voice’. The Voice Arts Awards are an international competition run by the Society of Voice Arts and Sciences; the winner will be announced in New York, on 9 November.

Mandy will be up against film star Kate Winslet, but she’s still my favourite!

The complete list of nominees can be found at the SOVAS website. You can listen to an excerpt of Mandy reading How to Catch a Bogle at the Random House Audio site.

About Catherine Jinks

Catherine Jinks portrait
In 2006, Cathy’s former school, the
Ku-ring-gai Creative Arts High School, renamed their library in Cathy’s honour.

Catherine Jinks was born in Brisbane, Australia in 1963. She grew up in Papua New Guinea and later studied medieval history at the University of Sydney. After working for several years in a bank, she married Peter Dockrill, a Canadian journalist, and lived for a short time in Nova Scotia, Canada. She is now a full-time writer, residing in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales with Peter and their daughter Hannah. Catherine is a four-time winner of the Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year award, and has also won a Victorian Premier’s Literature Award, the Adelaide Festival Award for Literature, the Ena Noel Award for Children’s Literature and an Aurealis Award for Science Fiction. In 2001 she was presented with a Centenary Medal for her contribution to Australian Children’s Literature.

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