Winner of the 2019 NSW Premier's History Award, in the young people's category!
Take a different look at how we became Australia...
Read MoreThe true story of a teenage girl who became Empress of China, and the last dangerous days of her dynasty.
Read MoreJourney with Letty, a settler girl, as she finds a new life in 1841 Australia.
Shortlisted for the 2015 YABBA and Koala Awards.
Read MoreDo you dare...
Save a dog? Help a bushranger? Beat the boss? Join The Bushranger's Boys .
An adventure into Australia's history. Voted onto the shortlist for the West Australian Young Readers Book Award 2016.
… Read MoreThe legendary story of the battle to rule Ancient China.
Read MoreIn China's wild northwest, a mob of bandits challenge the Emperor's rule. Friends Hu and Ren find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict. The boys face terrible choices that could destroy them all...
… Read MoreAustralia has many dinosaurs that are unique to our land - they aren't found anywhere else. These pictures aren't found anywhere else either! I took them on a special excursion inside Museum Victoria.
Read MoreAlison Lloyd is an Australian writer. She writes fiction and non-fiction. Her children's books are about China and Australia's past.
Alison Lloyd is now writing adult fiction too! Download a free story or find out more on her website for adults. Or see Alison's newsletter The Scroll.
Alison grew up in Canberra. She was also lucky to live in Europe and Asia when she was a kid. She studied in China for two years - she was in that country when army tanks rolled onto the city streets, to put down the student movement in 1989.
Before she wrote books, Alison worked for the Australian Government, in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. But she has sworn, under the Official Secrets Act, not to tell everything that went on then...
Alison now lives in Melbourne with two kids, her husband and enough books to keep you reading for a hundred years.