Hi, I'm Jack! I'm a novelist from Canberra, Australia. My work includes 300 Minutes of Danger (for kids), Kill Your Husbands (not for kids), and forty other books, translated into ten languages. I live on Ngunnawal/Ngambri land with my wife, five chickens, three possums, two cats, and a pair of human children.


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COMING 1 MARCH 2025

It’s almost midnight in the middle of summer. A man calls triple 0. He says he’s been bitten by a bluebacked spider. No-one knows of any such creature. The operator asks for clarification, but now man is screaming. ‘They’re coming out of the walls!’ he shrieks. ‘Help me! Somebody help!’

The Spider Army

Kill Your Husbands

Spy Academy

Everyone thinks Jayden ran away. Zoe knows they’re wrong.

Her search leads her to The 17—a secret group chat, used by anonymous teens to blackmail the powerless. To join, you have to put on a mask and record yourself completing a challenge. The challenges are always illegal. Sometimes dangerous. Maybe deadly...