Tristan Bancks tells stories for the page and screen. His books for kids and teens include Two Wolves, The Fall, Detention, the Tom Weekly series, Nit Boy and Ginger Meggs, a 100th anniversary book of short stories based on characters created by his great-great uncle, Jimmy Bancks, in 1921. Tristan’s books have won and been shortlisted for many awards, including a Children’s Book Council of Australia Honour Book, the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, ABIA, YABBA, KOALA, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and Queensland Literary Awards. His latest book is Cop and Robber, a tense, fast-paced crime novel with lots of laughs for age 10+.
Source: Reading Australia, https://readingaustralia.com.au/authors/tristan-bancks/
Photo by Amber Melody, courtesy of Penguin Random House Australia
"On the Run" by Tristan Bancks
Go behind the scenes on the outdoor writing process on my US middle-grade book ON THE RUN (Farrar Straus & Giroux), released as TWO WOLVES in Australia (Penguin-Random House). The beaches and hinterland of Byron Bay Australia were instrumental in the development of the story and the five-year writing process. For me, Nature is key to creativity.
SOURCE: Tristan Bancks (Nov 10, 2015) YouTube, https://youtu.be/5N7ZwUgYxzQ?si=RInLjQpGEGVW0vur
