Since 1989, Brian Caswell has written twenty-four books including the best-selling A Cage of Butterflies. His work has received many awards and shortlistings, including the ChildrenтАЩs Peace Literature Award, the Vision Australia, Young Adult Audio Book of the Year Award, the Aurealis Award for science-fiction and fantasy, the Australian Multicultural ChildrenтАЩs Literature Award, the Human Rights Awards, the NSW PremierтАЩs Awards (three times), and he has been included in the prestigious International Youth LibraryтАЩs тАШWhite RavensтАЩ list four times. All his published novels have been listed as Notable Books, by the ChildrenтАЩs Book Council of Australia. He lives on the NSW Central Coast with his wife Marlene.