Conrad Walters had a nomadic childhood, living in ten American states and seven countries. He was constantly uprooted from city to city and country to country, then dropped into what seemed like new worlds. Which is why he describes his love of speculative fiction as “an imposed life style”. <br><br>Since then, he has been an award-winning journalist in America and Australia for more than thirty years, mostly at <em>The Sydney Morning Herald</em>. He has a master’s degree in Creative Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney. <br><br>He is also co-author of <em>Journeys on the Silk Road</em>. Published in Australia by Picador and in America by Lyons Press, it tells the story of the world’s oldest printed book – a Buddhist text that was lost for a thousand years in the Gobi Desert. He teaches memoir writing at a local men’s shed in Sydney. <br><br><em>Unsilent Heart</em> is his debut novel. To learn more about the writer, visit www.conradwalters.com.<br>
