Meaghan Wilson Anastasios is a reformed archaeologist, historian, university lecturer, and art auctioneer with a PhD in art history and cultural economics (yes, really) who has segued her chequered past into a career as an author and screenwriter. With highlights including exploring a Turkish ghost town with Russell Crowe, and making Sam Neill eat walrus meat, she hasn't regretted her career change.

Meaghan's books include the best-selling adaptation of Russell Crowe's directorial debut, 'The Water Diviner'; her novels, 'The Honourable Thief' and 'The Emerald Tablet'; and the bestselling non-fiction book, 'The Pacific: In the Footsteps of Captain Cook.' Meaghan's latest novel, 'Sunday Reilly is All Out of F*cks to Give,' is a funny, sweary holiday read about a woman of a certain age who upends her life and heads off to the Greek Islands. It's a departure for Meaghan because she's also all out of f*cks to give.

Meaghan lives in Melbourne with her screenwriter husband, putting paid to the conventional wisdom that creative couples are a recipe for disaster. With two children who look to be joining them on the professional creative roller-coaster, plus a dog and three cats including the famous Aurora, life in Meaghan's household is never dull.