Biography

Richard Glover is the author of ten books, including The Mud House - the story of building a mud-brick house in the middle of nowhere with no power tools. He presents the Drive show on ABC radio in Sydney, which includes the weekly comedy hour Thank God It's Friday, which is available as a podcast. His weekly humour column has been published in the Sydney Morning Herald for over twenty years.

His books have been published in Poland and Italy. He's also author of Desperate Husbands, In bed with Jocasta, The Dag's Dictionary, and The P-Plate Parent (co-written with Angela Webber).

Richard has written a few stage shows, including Lonestar, a stage show about country music, which toured nationally with Genevieve Lemon, and A Christmas Story, which was performed at the Sydney Opera House, with Richard Wherrett directing. He was also one of the co-authors of Breast Wishes.

Richard Glover has written two short novels for children - The Dirt Experiment and The Joke Trap. And a version of the Dag's Dictionary for kids, under the title The No-Minute Noodler.

He lives with the Australian writer Debra Oswald, and is represented by the Sydney writing and theatre agency RGM. Most of his books are published by HarperCollins.

Some of his favourite things on the web are here , here and here.