John Marsden is a highly acclaimed Australian author, best known for his work in young adult (YA) action-adventure novels. He is most famous for his Tomorrow series, which has become one of the most popular book series for young adults in Australia. The first book of this series, "Tomorrow When The War Began," has been reprinted 26 times in Australia. Following the success of the Tomorrow series, Marsden published a new series of books featuring Ellie Linton from the Tomorrow series, known as The Ellie Chronicles.
Marsden is not only an accomplished author but also a high school principal and teacher. His passion for teaching led him to establish the Candlebark School on his farm in the Macedon Ranges in 2006. At the school, he administers the day-to-day activities and teaches aspiring students. In 2016, he also established a writing school on the same property, where he shares his knowledge and expertise with aspiring writers.
Born in Victoria, Marsden spent much of his childhood and teen years in Sydney, Devonport, Tasmania, and Kyneton, Victoria. Before settling on the teaching profession, he worked several jobs. However, he found his true calling when he started writing children’s books. By 1987, he had published his first novel, "So Much to Tell You," which was followed by "Take My Word For It," a half-sequel written from the point of view of another character.
Since then, Marsden has written more than 40 titles that have sold more than 5 million copies worldwide. His novels have been translated into more than ten languages, including Spanish, Polish, Italian, Danish, Dutch, Swedish, German, French, and Norwegian. Despite his success as an author, Marsden remains committed to teaching and nurturing the next generation of writers and learners.
Tomorrow Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Tomorrow, When the War Began
1993
2
The Dead of Night
1994
3
A Killing Frost / The Third Day, the Frost
1995
4
Darkness, Be My Friend
1996
5
Burning For Revenge
1997
6
The Night is for Hunting
1998
7
The Other Side of Dawn
1999
The Ellie Chronicles Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
While I Live
2003
2
Incurable
2005
3
Circle Of Flight
2006
So Much to Tell You Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
So Much to Tell You
1987
2
Take My Word For It
1992
Standalone Novels
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Great Gatenby
1989
2
Letters from the Inside
1991
3
Cool School
1995
4
Checkers
1996
5
Staying Alive in Year Five
1996
6
Looking For Trouble
1996
7
Dear Miffy
1997
8
Secret Men's Business
1998
9
Prayer for the Twenty-First Century
1998
10
Winter
2000
11
The Head Book
2001
12
A Day in the Life of Me
2002
13
Hamlet
2008
14
Hamlet & Ophelia
2009
15
The Year My Life Broke
2013
16
South of Darkness
2014
17
Millie
2020
18
A Roomful of Magic
2020
Picture Books (with Shaun Tan)
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
The Rabbits
1998
2
Norton's Hut
1998
3
Home and Away
2008
Non-Fiction Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Marsden on Marsden
2000
2
Somerled: And the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland
2008
From Reason to Revolution Books
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Title
Year
Goodreads
Amazon
1
Reminiscences 1808-1815 Under Wellington
2017
2
Glories to Useless Heroism
2017
3
The Autobiography or Narrative of a Soldier
2017
4
Far Distant Ships: The Blockade of Brest, 1793-1815
2017
5
Recollections from the Ranks
2017
6
On Gladsmuir Shall the Battle Be!
2017
7
The French Army of the Orient 1798-1801
2017
8
Olmutz to Torgau: Horace St Paul and the Campaigns of the Austrian Army in the Seven Years War 1758-60
2018
9
The Veteran or 40 Years' Service in the British Army
2018
10
Narrative of the Eventful Life of Thomas Jackson
2018
11
By Fire and Bayonet: Grey's West Indies Campaign of 1794
2018
12
Murat's Army: The Army of the Kingdom of Naples 1806-1815
2018
13
Next to Wellington: General Sir George Murray
2018
14
"Men who are Determined to be Free": The American Assault on Stony Point, 15 July 1779
2018
15
For Orange and the States Part I
2018
16
With the Guards in Flanders: The Diary of Captain Roger Morris, 1793-1795
2018
17
We are Accustomed to Do Our Duty: German Auxiliaries with the British Army 1793-95
2018
18
The Secret Expedition: The Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland 1799
2018
19
A Light Infantryman with Wellington: The Letters of Captain George Ulrich Barlow 52nd and 69th Foot 1808-15
2018
20
For Orange and the States: The Army of the Dutch Republic, 1713-1772: Part II: Cavalry and Special Troops
2019
21
The Key to Lisbon: The Third French Invasion of Portugal, 1810-11
2019
22
Swiss Regiments in the Service of France 1798-1815
2019
23
Command and Leadership 1721-1815
2019
24
Waterloo - After the Glory: Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle
2019
25
A Redcoat in America: The Diaries of Lieutenant William Bamford, 1757-1765 and 1776
2019
26
They Were Good Soldiers: African–Americans Serving in the Continental Army, 1775-1783
2019
27
Quebec Under Siege: French Eye-Witness Accounts from the Campaign of 1759
2019
28
Fluxes, Fevers and Fighting Men: War and Disease in Ancien Regime Europe 1648-1789
2019
29
Northern Tars in Southern Waters: The Russian Fleet in the Mediterranean, 1806-1810
2019
30
King George’s Hangman: Henry Hawley and the Battle of Falkirk, 1746
2019
31
So Bloody a Day: The 16th Light Dragoons in the Waterloo Campaign
2019
32
Royal Navy Officers of the Seven Years War: A Biographical Dictionary of Commissioned Officers 1748-1763
2019
33
Zweybrücken in Command: The Reichsarmee in the Campaign of 1758
2019
34
Glory Is Fleeting: New Scholarship on the Napoleonic Wars
2019
35
All at Sea: Naval Support for the British Army During the American Revolutionary War
2019
36
Revenge in the Name of Honour: The Royal Navy’s Quest for Vengeance in the Single Ship Actions of the War of 1812
2020
37
They Fought with Extraordinary Bravery: The III German Army Corps in the Southern Netherlands, 1814
2020
38
Fashioning Regulation, Regulating Fashion: The Uniforms and Dress of the British Army 1800-1815: Volume II
2020
39
The Danish Army of the Napoleonic Wars 1801-1815. Organisation, Uniforms & Equipment: Volume 1 - High Command, Line and Light Infantry
2020
40
From Across the Sea: North Americans in Nelson’s Navy
2020
41
Guerra Fantastica: The Portuguese Army in the Seven Years War
2020
42
Neither Up Nor Down: The British Army and the Campaign in Flanders 1793-1795
2020
43
Wellington at Bay: The Battle of Villamuriel, 25 October 1812
2020
44
Rebellious Scots to Crush: The Military Response to the Jacobite ‘45
2020
45
Wellington’s Favourite Engineer: John Fox Burgoyne: Operations, Engineering, and the Making of a Field Marshal
2020
46
Life in the Red Coat: The British Soldier 1721-1815
2020
47
Scharnhorst: The Formative Years, 1755-1801
2021
48
The Sieges of the '45: Siege Warfare during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-1746
2021
49
Austrian Cavalry of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815
2021
50
Sir James McGrigor: The Adventurous Life of Wellington's Chief Medical Officer
2021
51
At the Point of the Bayonet The Peninsular War Battles of Arroyomolinos and Almaraz 1811-1812
2021
52
Napoleon’s Stolen Army: How the Royal Navy Rescued a Spanish Army in the Baltic
2021
53
Crisis at the Chesapeake: The Royal Navy and the Struggle for America 1775-1783
2021
54
The Sword and the Spirit: Proceedings of the first ‘War & Peace in the Age of Napoleon’
2021
55
The Sea Is My Element: The Eventful Life of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, 1766-1838
2021
56
Their Infantry and Guns Will Astonish You: The Army of Hindustan and European Mercenaries in Maratha service 1780-1803
2021
57
Bullocks, Grain, and Good Madeira: The Maratha and Jat Campaigns, 1803-1806 and the Emergence of an Indian Arm
2021
58
For God and King: A History of the Damas Legion : A Case Study of the Military Emigration during the French Revolution
2021
59
Wellington and the Lines of Torres Vedras: The Defence of Portugal during the Peninsular War, 1807-1814
2021
60
Hastenbeck 1757: The French Army and the Opening Campaign of the Seven Years War
2021
61
Riflemen: The History of the 5th Battalion, 60th
2021
62
Like a Brazen Wall: The Battle of Minden, 1759, and its Place in the Seven Years War
2021
63
French Light Infantry 1784-1815: From the Chasseurs of Louis XVI to Napoleon’s Grande Armée
2021
64
Rebellion, Invasion and Occupation: The British Army in Ireland, 1793-1815
2021
65
These Distinguished Corps: British Grenadier and Light Infantry Battalions in the American Revolution
2021
66
Lobositz to Leuthen: Horace St Paul and the Campaigns of the Austrian Army in the Seven Years War 1756-57
2022
67
Napoleonic French Military Uniforms 1798-1814
2022
68
A Very Fine Regiment: The 47th Foot during the American War of Independence, 1773-1783
2022
69
No Want of Courage: The British Army in Flanders, 1793-1795
2022
70
Armies and Enemies of Napoleon, 1789-1815: Proceedings of the 2021 Helion and Company ’From Reason to Revolution’ Conference
2022
71
The Battle of Rossbach 1757: New Perspectives on the Battle and Campaign
2022
72
The Army of the Kingdom of Italy, 1805-1814
2022
73
The Soldiers are Dressed in Red: The Quiberon Expedition of 1795 and the Counter-Revolution in Brittany
2022
74
From Ushant to Gibraltar: The Channel Fleet 1778-1783
2022
75
1805 – Tsar Alexander\'s First War with Napoleon: The Russian Official History
2022
76
The Ottoman Army of the Napoleonic Wars, 1784-1815
2022
77
The Changing Face of Old Regime Warfare: Essays in Honour of Christopher Duffy
2022
78
More Furies Than Men
2022
79
All the Seas of the World
2022
80
Ladies, Wives and Women: British Army Wives in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815
2022
81
Wellington's Other Army
2022
82
New Perspectives on the Jacobite ’45
2023
83
Fit to Command
2023
84
The Pattern: The 33rd Regiment in the American Revolution, 1770-1783
2023
85
1806-1807 - Tsar Alexander's Second War with Napoleon: The Russian Official History
2023
86
You Have to Die in Piedmont!: The Battle of Assietta, 19 July 1747. The War of the Austrian Succession in the Alps
2023
87
Wellington's Unsung Heroes: The Fifth Division in the Peninsular War, 1810-1814
2023
88
Kesselsdorf 1745: Decision in the Fight for Silesia
2023
89
To Conquer and to Keep: Suchet and the War for Eastern Spain, 1809-1814
2023
90
The Bavarian War of Succession, 1778-79
2023
91
A Fine Corps and will Serve Faithfully: The Swiss Regiment de Roll in the British Army 1794-1816
2023
92
Anson: Naval Commander and Statesman
2023
93
The Tagus Campaign of 1809
2023
94
An Atlas of the Battles and Campaigns of the American Revolution, 1775-1783
2023
95
Maurice de Saxe and the Conquest of the Austrian Netherlands 1744-1748: Volume 1 - The Ghosts of Dettingen
2023
96
Confronting Napoleon: Levin von Bennigsen’s Memoir of the Campaign in Poland, 1806-1807: Volume II