![]() ![]() He still failed his exams but had fallen in love with books. ![]() 'Then a teacher put a copy of Catch-22 in my hands and that changed my life,' John has said. He attended Mosman High School and was in his final months of school when his teachers figured out he could barely read due to undiagnosed dyslexia. ![]() John Purcell was born in Sydney and grew up in the wealthy lower-north-shore suburb of Mosman. He appears regularly in print, on television and at Australian writers' festivals to talk about books and the publishing industry. He is also the Director of Books at Booktopia (Australia's largest online bookseller) and Angus & Robertson Bookworld. John Purcell (born 1972) is an Australian author whose novels include The Secret Lives of Emma (under the pseudonym Natasha Walker) published by Penguin Random House in 2012 and The Girl on the Page, published by HarperCollins Australia in October 2018. ![]()
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