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Genre and style

Heath's young adult novels are mysteries, characterised by the frequent juxtaposition of elaborate action

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. They usually include science fiction technologies or settings, and are almost always set in an ambiguous location.

As a public figure

Heath was featured in the

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and spent a year reading only books by women in an effort to raise the profile of female authors.

Books

Stand-alone novels

*''Ink, Inc.'' (Dec 2013) *''Replica'' (Aug 2014) *''Kill Your Brother'' (July 2021)

The Liars series

*''The Truth App'' (1 Sep 2018) *''No Survivors'' (also published as ''The Missing Passenger'', 1 Dec 2018) *''The Set Up'' (1 March 2019) *''Lockdown'' (1 June 2019) *''Armageddon'' (1 Sep 2019)

The Fero Files

*''The Cut Out'' (Aug 2015) – a Children's Book Council of Australia notable book and shortlisted for the

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for Best Children's Fiction Novel *''The Fail Safe'' (Sep 2016) - a Children's Book Council of Australia notable book, shortlisted for ACT Book of the Year

The Danger Series

*''300 Minutes Of Danger'' (Sep 2016) - a Children's Book Council of Australia notable book *''400 Minutes Of Danger'' (Aug 2017) *''500 Minutes Of Danger'' (Aug 2018) *''200 Minutes Of Danger'' (Feb 2020)

Countdown to Danger/Choose Your Destiny

*''Countdown to Danger: Bullet Train Disaster'' (Feb 2011) *''Countdown to Danger: Shock wave'' (May 2012) *''Countdown to Danger: Deadly Heist'' (Feb 2013)

The Scream Series

* ''Human Flytrap'' (May 2019) * ''Spider Army'' (May 2019) * ''Haunted Book'' (Aug 2019) * ''Squid Slayer'' (Aug 2019)

Ashley Arthur series

*''Money Run'' (2008) – shortlisted for the Nottinghamshire Brilliant Book Award *''Hit List'' (2010) – shortlisted for the National Year of Reading "Our Story" Collection, a YABBA and a KOALA

Six of Hearts series

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'' (2006) *''Remote Control'' (2007) – shortlisted for the

for Best Science-Fiction Novel *''Third Transmission'' (2009) – excerpt published in The Invisible Thread: One Hundred Years of Words *''Dead Man Running'' (2012)

Timothy Blake series

*''Hangman'' (Jan 2018) *''Hunter'' (also published as ''Just One Bite'', Mar 2019) *''Hideout'' (Dec 2020)

Short stories

*''Sleep'' (published in ''Voiceworks'', issue #65), 2006 *''The Mistress'' (published in ''Voiceworks'', issue #68), 2007 *''Right-angles and hair'' (published in ''The Sex Mook''), 2007 *''Emma'' (published in ''lip'', issue #16), 2008 *''404'' (published on jackheath.com.au), 2008 *''Freak Show'' (published by the State Library of Queensland), 2008 *''The Beach'' (written for ''Salon 3 – Stoker and Shelley'', and published on

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's blog, ''The Book Post''), 2009 *''Method Living'', 2010 *''Flesh'' (written for ''Salon 5 – Pinol and Wells'', and published on ''The Book Post''), 2010 *''The Caretakers'', 2011

References

External links

Jack Heath's official website
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