Jeff HopkinsJeff Hopkins (1950 -) is a retired schoolteacher. He lives in Walyalup, Western Australia. Walyalup means 'lungs', is the Whadjuk name for Fremantle, and is part of the Noongar Nation. As the drama master at Hale School in Perth, he wrote ten origina musical plays and produced and directed them at the school.In 1992, he researched and wrote a family history, 'Life's Race Well Run', and after retiring in 2006 he has written twenty-three novels, a memoir, and three 'faction' (fiction based on fact) biographies: - Artifice (2015)- Gnarl (2015)- The Spiv: The Robbie Sparrow Story (2015)- Impressment: Managers, Actors, and Impressed Boys (2015)- Benedict Lovelace and the Travelling Show (2016)- Reflections: A Story of Friendship (2016)- Rocking Horse Rider (2016)- The Hydrographer: The Clyde Steadman Story (2017) - Handsome Jack: A Whizz-kid's Story (2019)- Lord Gnarl: A Sequel to Gnarl (2019)- A Horse Called Signs: A Sequel to Handsome Jack (2020) - Alaric Pinder Boor: A Life Reimagined (2020) - Caliphs and Kings: Concluding the Gnarl Trilogy (2020) - The Gavin Johns Story: A Belle Beamish Investigation (2021)- The Headmaster: Frederick Charles Faulkner's Story (2021)- Creatively: A Memoir of Plays, Films, Commentaries, Musicals and Books (2022)- Resilience: The Story of Cameron and Rick (2022)- Directed by McCardle O'Hanlon (2022)- Surviving the Silence: The Benjamin Stanton Story (2022)- Released & Regained: The Jayden Harnett Story (2023)- Adam & Benjamin: The Story of the Seal Island Band (2023)- Landor: A Saga of Siblings, Schooling, Sparring, and Sinking (2023)- Life's Race Well Run: Revised Edition (2023)- The Trafalgar Twins: Two Halves of the One Person (2023)- John Gavin: The Reimagined Lives of 28 Government Juvenile Immigrants (2024)- The Absconders: The Reimagined Lives of Allen Knight and Thomas Newman (2025)- The Twisted Ladder: The Story of Kit Ganderton and Dougie Bourgore (2025)- Auricularis: Everyone Goes Home in the End (2025) Read More Read Less