Michael John Noonan was an Australia

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n / New Zealand

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 novelist and radio script writer

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. He also created the Australian TV series Riptide

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, featuring Australian actors "including Tony Ward

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, Rowena Wallace

Rowena Wallace

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, Michael Pate

Michael Pate

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, Bill Hunter

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, Helen Morse

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, John Meillon

John Meillon

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, Chips Rafferty

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 and Jack Thompson

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Noonan served with the Second Australian Imperial Force

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 in New Guinea during World War II

New Guinea campaign

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. He moved to England in 1957 but returned frequently to Australia and returned there to live in Brisbane in 1979.

The beach, his favourite place, inspired most of his books. He spent the last years of his life living in Queensland

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, Australia.

Works

• 1946: In the land of the talking trees : a fantasy
• 1947: The golden forest : the story of Oonah the platypus
• 1959: The patchwork hero (translated into Polish and German)
• 1961-1969: The Flying Doctor Series:
  • 1961: Flying Doctor (also translated into German, French, Dutch, Portuguese)
  • 1962: Flying Doctor and the secret of the pearls (translated into German)
  • 1962: Flying doctor on the Great Barrier Reef (translated into German and Polish)
  • 1964: Flying doctor shadows the mob (translated into German)
  • 1965: Flying doctor hits the headlines (translated into German)
  • 1969: Flying doctor under the desert (translated into German)
• 1963: December Boys; made into a film of the same name
  December Boys
  December Boys is a 2007 Australian film directed by Rod Hardy and written by Marc Rosenberg and adapted from the 1963 novel of the same name by Michael Noonan. It was released on 14 September 2007 in the UK and US and 20 September 2007 in Australia...
  
   released in 2007.
• 1967: Air taxi (translated into Polish)
• 1969: The pink beach
• 1973: The sun is God - biographical fiction about J. M. W. Turner
  J. M. W. Turner
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• 1978: The invincible Mr Az
• 1982: Magwitch
• 1983: A different drummer : the story of E.J. Banfield, the beachcomber of Dunk Island
• 1987: McKenzie’s boots - listed as one of the Best Books for Young Adults of 1988 by the American Library Association
• 1995: In with the tide : memoirs of a storyteller - autobiography
  Autobiography
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