Geoffrey McSkimming

Who is Geoffrey McSkimming?

Geoffrey McSkimming is a children's novelist and poet. He is the author of the Cairo Jim chronicles and Jocelyn Osgood jaunts and the newly released Phyllis Wong series of mystery novels.

McSkimming was born in Sydney, Australia. To write his Cairo Jim stories, he travelled to Egypt, Peru, Tanzania, Greece, Mexico, Turkey, Italy and Singapore and other locations. He is much in demand for author talks, and appears with his wife, the magician Sue-Anne Webster, to promote the Phyllis Wong mysteries series.

Geoffrey McSkimming has contributed to magazines and poetry anthologies and he has also narrated the Cairo Jim chronicles as audio books for Bolinda Publishing. He wrote five character tours which were performed in the galleries at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Australia, from 2000 through 2013. In June 2006 Geoffrey McSkimming undertook an author tour of the UK for Walker Books, who released ten titles in the Cairo Jim series in the UK. In 2007, Scholastic published Geoffrey McSkimming's book of verse, Ogre in a Toga and Other Perverse Verses. The audio version of this title, narrated by McSkimming, was shortlisted in the Audie Awards in 2008. On 14 August 2008 Geoffrey McSkimming's performance work, "The Startling Tale of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", a monologue in verse, was performed by the author at the Abbotsleigh School for Girls' Literature Festival in Sydney, Australia.