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My latest research has hit the news! LaTrobe University website: Stonehenge Solved?
Here is my version of how it all came about: Stonehenge and me!
Photograph: Damian Kelly, 2009
Image courtesy Drew Ryan Photography
My latest research has hit the news! LaTrobe University website: Stonehenge Solved? Here is my version of how it all came about: Stonehenge and me!
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Image courtesy Drew Ryan Photography |
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My fourteenth book, Spiders: Learning To Love Them, has just been published by Allen & Unwin in Australia and the US, and by Orion in UK. It can be purchased at all good bookshops. Online, the best place to get it in Australia is the wonderful Andrew Isles Natural History Bookshop. It is available at most online bookshops, including Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Spiders tells of my journey from arachnophobia to obsession while introducing the reader to these extraordinary creatures. The book tells readers how to get to know their own personal home spiders. One thing which is certain - they will have some. Spiders are everywhere - they just tend to stay well hidden if they can. The media reviews have been fantastic, as has the reaction to the book at interviews and public speaking events. I am really chuffed! Latest News! Spiders has just been judged the "Best Book in the Category of Natural History" in the 2009 Whitely Awards - more details of this and the media reviews then just click here: Spiders: learning to love them.
"Kelly's battle to overcome arachnophobia has spawned a terrific book ... But Kelly's Spiders is a book for the layman, not the scientist. It is packed with scientific facts and would be a great starting kit for amateur naturalists toying with the idea of getting to know spiders better... But, at the end of the day, this book is a love letter to the most misunderstood of animals." Nigel Adlam, Sunday Territorian |
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EUMY Education - Enrichment Units for the Middle Years: online and print units for extending able students anywhere, at any time across the school campus. After over twenty years specialising in writing and teaching extension for gifted students, fifty enrichment units are now available for middle years: approximately Grade 4 to 10 around the world. The new EUMY Mathematics units replace Being Mathematical, which is used in schools in six countries. Units are available in Mathematics, Science, Humanities, Cross curricular studies and Information Technology. Prior to working on the EUMY units, I had ten educational titles published in Australia and overseas, in the fields of science, mathematics, computing and gifted education. I work as a consultant specialising in curriculum development for gifted students. Teaching my enrichment units keeps me constantly in touch with the realities of the classroom. I offer professional development in differentiating the curriculum or providing courses designed specifically to challenge the highly able. I am asked to talk about EUMY at workshops and conferences here in Australia regularly. I have been invited to talk about EUMY at the Nueva Gifted Learning Conference in Hillsborough, CA, USA, in October, 2009. I hope to meet more of the American users there, as I did last time in 2007. |
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The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal, is a popular science title published in Australia by Allen & Unwin in 2004, and in America by Thunder's Mouth Press in 2005. Contents and reviews can be found from the link or by clicking on the images. It is readily available from Amazon.com and bookshops. I love doing dinner and school talks based on this book, with plenty of magic replicating psychic phenomena: Science and the Paranormal. |
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2006 saw the publication of my popular science title, Crocodile: evolution's greatest survivor, published in hardback by Allen & Unwin in 2006. It is available in all good bookstores, as well as Amazon.com. Crocodile tells the story of the human interactions with the crocodilians: true crocodiles, the alligators and the gharial. The natural history of these extraordinary creatures is told through their pre-history, mythology, biology and the stories of the people who have interacted with them over the centuries, including today's zoologists, crocodile farmers and zoo-keepers. With an Australian focus on our two species, the Saltwater and Freshwater crocodiles, it has a global perspective.
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Fiction: Avenging Janie, a novel for young adults, was published by Lothian Books in 2003. It tells the story of a fraudulent psychic cult. Janie died because she needed to believe. Marie seeks to avenge her death and destroy the cult, but it isn't going to be easy. You see, people believe what they want to believe, not what the evidence tells them. Details and reviews can be found by clicking on the image. I am currently working on my second novel. |
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I have had ten education titles published. These can be seen by clicking on the image at left.
I have a few addictions, the most noticeable being my dogs! Smidgin Ubiquitous and Epsilon-pi are the most spoilt assistants any author had. So they get a page as well. The Dogs. I adore natural history, reading, magic, archaeology, collecting wooden mathematical puzzles, mathematics, science, archaeology, computers, people, theatre, gardening and trying to understand why people are the way they are. Have you worked it out yet? I have a sudden new passion - the way oral traditions work, especially with regard to natural history - all part of the research for my doctorate. There is so much to learn in this world!
Lynne Kelly, 2009
