About Deborah

Deborah Challinor is an award-winning and consistently best-selling author of eighteen historical fiction novels, a young adult novel, and two works of non-fiction about the Vietnam War. In 1999 she completed a Ph.D. in history at Waikato University, for which she won a New Zealand Returned and Services’ Association Military History Scholarship in 1996. She was recognised as a Distinguished Alumni at Waikato University in 2017, and in 2018 she became a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to literature and historical research.  

In the past Deborah has written an opinion column and feature articles for the Waikato Times, edited special publications and books, and taught New Zealand history, and researching and writing historical fiction, at university level for several years. These days she writes fulltime and her books are sold in New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Russia and Czechoslovakia, and in eBook, audio and large print formats.

Deborah was born and raised in Huntly and attended Huntly College. She believes the best music came out of the 1960s and ’70s (with some exceptions), reads a lot, loves cats, mourning jewellery and taxidermy, and follows the New Zealand Warriors (Up the Wahs!). But most of all, she loves history.    

Deborah is currently working on a new trilogy about a young woman who becomes an undertaker in 1860s-70s Sydney. The first title in this series, Black Silk and Sympathy, will be published by HarperCollins Australia on 3 April 2004.

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