John Marsden

John Marsden

8 Series

John Marsden is an Australian author renowned for his YA action-adventure novels, particularly the Tomorrow series. In addition to his writing, he serves as a high school principal and teacher. His work often explores themes that have enduring significance to people.

Author: John Marsden Rewritten synopsis: In "Tomorrow, When the War Began," a group of teenagers returns from a camping trip to find their town invaded and occupied by a foreign power. Struggling to survive, they form a resistance to fight back against the enemy. As they navigate the challenges of guerrilla warfare, the group grapples with moral dilemmas and the harsh realities of their new world. The story explores themes of friendship, courage, and the loss of innocence in the face of adversity.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow, When the War Began

(1993)

The Dead of Night

(1994)

A Killing Frost / The Third Day, the Frost

(1995)

Darkness, Be My Friend

(1996)

Burning For Revenge

(1997)

The Night is for Hunting

(1998)

The Other Side of Dawn

(1999)

The Ellie Chronicles

While I Live

(2003)

Incurable

(2005)

Circle Of Flight

(2006)

So Much to Tell You

So Much to Tell You

(1987)

Take My Word For It

(1992)

Standalone Novels

The Great Gatenby

(1989)

Letters from the Inside

(1991)

Cool School

(1995)

Checkers

(1996)

Staying Alive in Year Five

(1996)

Looking For Trouble

(1996)

Dear Miffy

(1997)

Secret Men's Business

(1998)

Prayer for the Twenty-First Century

(1998)

Winter

(2000)

The Head Book

(2001)

A Day in the Life of Me

(2002)

Hamlet

(2008)

Hamlet & Ophelia

(2009)

The Year My Life Broke

(2013)

South of Darkness

(2014)

Millie

(2020)

A Roomful of Magic

(2020)

Picture (with Shaun Tan)

The Rabbits

(1998)(With: Shaun Tan)

Norton's Hut

(1998)

Home and Away

(2008)

Non-Fiction

The Illustrated Bede

(1989)

Everything I Know About Writing

(1993)

Marsden on Marsden

(2000)

Somerled: And the Emergence of Gaelic Scotland

(2008)

From Reason to Revolution

Reminiscences 1808-1815 Under Wellington

(2017)(By: William Hay,Andrew Bamford)

Glories to Useless Heroism

(2017)(By: William Raffle)

The Autobiography or Narrative of a Soldier

(2017)(By: William Brown)

Far Distant Ships: The Blockade of Brest, 1793-1815

(2017)(By: Quintin Barry)

Recollections from the Ranks

(2017)(By: Darrin Boland)

On Gladsmuir Shall the Battle Be!

(2017)(By: Arran Johnston)

The French Army of the Orient 1798-1801

(2017)(By: Yves Martin)

Olmutz to Torgau: Horace St Paul and the Campaigns of the Austrian Army in the Seven Years War 1758-60

(2018)(By: Neil Cogswell)

The Veteran or 40 Years' Service in the British Army

(2018)(By: John Harley)

Narrative of the Eventful Life of Thomas Jackson

(2018)(By: Thomas Jackson)

By Fire and Bayonet: Grey's West Indies Campaign of 1794

(2018)(By: Steve Brown)

Murat's Army: The Army of the Kingdom of Naples 1806-1815

(2018)(By: Digby Smith)

Next to Wellington: General Sir George Murray

(2018)(By: John Harding-Edgar)

"Men who are Determined to be Free": The American Assault on Stony Point, 15 July 1779

(2018)(By: David C. Bonk)

For Orange and the States Part I

(2018)(By: Marc Geerdink-Schaftenaar)

With the Guards in Flanders: The Diary of Captain Roger Morris, 1793-1795

(2018)(By: Peter Harrington,Roger Morris)

We are Accustomed to Do Our Duty: German Auxiliaries with the British Army 1793-95

(2018)(By: Paul Demet)

The Secret Expedition: The Anglo-Russian Invasion of Holland 1799

(2018)(By: Geert van Uythoven)

A Light Infantryman with Wellington: The Letters of Captain George Ulrich Barlow 52nd and 69th Foot 1808-15

(2018)(By: Gareth Glover)

For Orange and the States: The Army of the Dutch Republic, 1713-1772: Part II: Cavalry and Special Troops

(2019)(By: Marc Geerdink-Schaftenaar)

The Key to Lisbon: The Third French Invasion of Portugal, 1810-11

(2019)(By: Kenton White)

Swiss Regiments in the Service of France 1798-1815

(2019)(By: Stephen Ede-Borrett)

Command and Leadership 1721-1815

(2019)(By: Andrew Bamford)

Waterloo - After the Glory: Hospital Sketches and Reports on the Wounded after the Battle

(2019)(By: Gareth Glover)

A Redcoat in America: The Diaries of Lieutenant William Bamford, 1757-1765 and 1776

(2019)(By: John B. Hattendorf)

They Were Good Soldiers: African–Americans Serving in the Continental Army, 1775-1783

(2019)(By: John Rees)

Quebec Under Siege: French Eye-Witness Accounts from the Campaign of 1759

(2019)(By: Charles A Mayhood)

Fluxes, Fevers and Fighting Men: War and Disease in Ancien Regime Europe 1648-1789

(2019)(By: Padraig Lenihan)

Northern Tars in Southern Waters: The Russian Fleet in the Mediterranean, 1806-1810

(2019)(By: Darrin Boland)

King George’s Hangman: Henry Hawley and the Battle of Falkirk, 1746

(2019)(By: Jonathan Oates)

So Bloody a Day: The 16th Light Dragoons in the Waterloo Campaign

(2019)(By: David Blackmore)

Royal Navy Officers of the Seven Years War: A Biographical Dictionary of Commissioned Officers 1748-1763

(2019)(By: Cy Harrison)

Zweybrücken in Command: The Reichsarmee in the Campaign of 1758

(2019)(By: Neil Cogswell)

Glory Is Fleeting: New Scholarship on the Napoleonic Wars

(2019)(By: Andrew Bamford)

All at Sea: Naval Support for the British Army During the American Revolutionary War

(2019)(By: John Dillon)

Revenge in the Name of Honour: The Royal Navy’s Quest for Vengeance in the Single Ship Actions of the War of 1812

(2020)(By: Nicholas James Kaizer)

They Fought with Extraordinary Bravery: The III GermanArmy Corps in the Southern Netherlands, 1814

(2020)(By: Geert van Uythoven)

Fashioning Regulation, Regulating Fashion: The Uniforms and Dress of the British Army 1800-1815: Volume II

(2020)(By: Ben Townsend)

The Danish Army of the Napoleonic Wars 1801-1815. Organisation, Uniforms & Equipment: Volume 1 - High Command, Line and Light Infantry

(2020)(By: David A. Wilson)

From Across the Sea: North Americans in Nelson’s Navy

(2020)(By: John A Rodgaard)

Guerra Fantastica: The Portuguese Army in the Seven Years War

(2020)(By: António Barrento)

Wellington at Bay: The Battle of Villamuriel, 25 October 1812

(2020)(By: Garry David Wills)

Rebellious Scots to Crush: The Military Response to the Jacobite ‘45

(2020)(By: Andrew Bamford)

Wellington’s Favourite Engineer: John Fox Burgoyne: Operations, Engineering, and the Making of a Field Marshal

(2020)(By: Mark S. Thompson)

Life in the Red Coat: The British Soldier 1721-1815

(2020)(By: Andrew Bamford)

Scharnhorst: The Formative Years, 1755-1801

(2021)(By: Charles Edward White)

The Sieges of the '45: Siege Warfare during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745-1746

(2021)(By: Jonathan Oates)

Austrian Cavalry of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815

(2021)(By: Bruno Mugnai)

Sir James McGrigor: The Adventurous Life of Wellington's Chief Medical Officer

(2021)(By: Tom Scotland)

At the Point of the Bayonet The Peninsular War Battles of Arroyomolinos and Almaraz 1811-1812

(2021)(By: Robert Griffith)

Napoleon’s Stolen Army: How the Royal Navy Rescued a Spanish Army in the Baltic

(2021)

Crisis at the Chesapeake: The Royal Navy and the Struggle for America 1775-1783

(2021)(By: Quintin Barry)

The Sword and the Spirit: Proceedings of the first ‘War & Peace in the Age of Napoleon’

(2021)(By: Zack White)

The Sea Is My Element: The Eventful Life of Admiral Sir Pulteney Malcolm, 1766-1838

(2021)(By: Paul Martinovich)

Their Infantry and Guns Will Astonish You: The Army of Hindustan and European Mercenaries in Maratha service 1780-1803

(2021)(By: Andy Copestake)

Bullocks, Grain, and Good Madeira: The Maratha and Jat Campaigns, 1803-1806 and the Emergence of an Indian Arm

(2021)(By: Joshua Provan)

For God and King: A History of the Damas Legion : A Case Study of the Military Emigration during the French Revolution

(2021)(By: Alistair Nichols)

Wellington and the Lines of Torres Vedras: The Defence of Portugal during the Peninsular War, 1807-1814

(2021)(By: Mark S. Thompson)

Hastenbeck 1757: The French Army and the Opening Campaign of the Seven Years War

(2021)(By: Olivier Lapray)

Riflemen: The History of the 5th Battalion, 60th

(2021)(By: Robert Griffith)

Like a Brazen Wall: The Battle of Minden, 1759, and its Place in the Seven Years War

(2021)(By: Ewan Carmichael)

French Light Infantry 1784-1815: From the Chasseurs of Louis XVI to Napoleon’s Grande Armée

(2021)(By: Terry Crowdy)

Rebellion, Invasion and Occupation: The British Army in Ireland, 1793-1815

(2021)(By: Wayne Stack)

These Distinguished Corps: British Grenadier and Light Infantry Battalions in the American Revolution

(2021)(By: Don N. Hagist)

Lobositz to Leuthen: Horace St Paul and the Campaigns of the Austrian Army in the Seven Years War 1756-57

(2022)(By: Neil Cogswell)

Napoleonic French Military Uniforms 1798-1814

(2022)(By: Guy Dempsey)

A Very Fine Regiment: The 47th Foot during the American War of Independence, 1773-1783

(2022)(By: Paula Knight)

No Want of Courage: The British Army in Flanders, 1793-1795

(2022)(By: R.N.W. Thomas)

Armies and Enemies of Napoleon, 1789-1815: Proceedings of the 2021 Helion and Company ’From Reason to Revolution’ Conference

(2022)(By: Robert Griffith)

The Battle of Rossbach 1757: New Perspectives on the Battle and Campaign

(2022)(By: Alexander Querengasser)

The Army of the Kingdom of Italy, 1805-1814

(2022)(By: Stephen Ede-Borrett)

The Soldiers are Dressed in Red: The Quiberon Expedition of 1795 and the Counter-Revolution in Brittany

(2022)(By: Alistair Nichols)

From Ushant to Gibraltar: The Channel Fleet 1778-1783

(2022)(By: Quintin Barry)

1805 – Tsar Alexander\'s First War with Napoleon: The Russian Official History

(2022)(By: Peter G. A. Phillips)

The Ottoman Army of the Napoleonic Wars, 1784-1815

(2022)(By: Bruno Mugnai)

The Changing Face of Old Regime Warfare: Essays in Honour of Christopher Duffy

(2022)(By: Alexander S Burns)

More Furies Than Men

(2022)(By: Pierre-Louis Coudray)

All the Seas of the World

(2022)(By: Albert C.E. Parker)

Ladies, Wives and Women: British Army Wives in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815

(2022)(By: David Clammer)

Wellington's Other Army

(2022)(By: Sérgio Veludo Coelho)

New Perspectives on the Jacobite ’45

(2023)(By: Arran Johnston)

Fit to Command

(2023)(By: Steve Brown)

The Pattern: The 33rd Regiment in the American Revolution, 1770-1783

(2023)(By: Robbie MacNiven)

1806-1807 - Tsar Alexander's Second War with Napoleon: The Russian Official History

(2023)(By: Peter G.A. Philips)

You Have to Die in Piedmont!: The Battle of Assietta, 19 July 1747. The War of the Austrian Succession in the Alps

(2023)(By: Giovanni Cerino Badone)

Wellington's Unsung Heroes: The Fifth Division in the Peninsular War, 1810-1814

(2023)(By: Carole Divall)

Kesselsdorf 1745: Decision in the Fight for Silesia

(2023)(By: Alexander Querengasser)

To Conquer and to Keep: Suchet and the War for Eastern Spain, 1809-1814

(2023)(By: Yuhan Kim)

The Bavarian War of Succession, 1778-79

(2023)(By: Alexander Querengasser)

A Fine Corps and will Serve Faithfully: The Swiss Regiment de Roll in the British Army 1794-1816

(2023)(By: Alistair Nichols)

Anson: Naval Commander and Statesman

(2023)(By: Anthony Bruce)

The Tagus Campaign of 1809

(2023)

An Atlas of the Battles and Campaigns of the American Revolution, 1775-1783

(2023)(By: David C. Bonk)

Maurice de Saxe and the Conquest of the Austrian Netherlands 1744-1748: Volume 1 - The Ghosts of Dettingen

(2023)(By: Michael McNally)

Confronting Napoleon: Levin von Bennigsen’s Memoir of the Campaign in Poland, 1806-1807: Volume II

(2023)(By: Paul Strietelmeier)

Shaun Tan Picture (with Shaun Tan)

The Rabbits

(1998)

The Lost Thing

(2000)(By: Shaun Tan)

The Red Tree

(2001)(By: Shaun Tan)

Rules of Summer

(2013)(By: Shaun Tan)

Cicada

(2018)(By: Shaun Tan)

Dog

(2020)(By: Shaun Tan)

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