John Birmingham grew up in Ipswich, Queensland and was educated at St Edmunds Christian Brother's College in Ipswich and the University of Queensland in Brisbane. His only stint of full time employment was as a researcher at the Defence Department. After this he returned to Queensland to study law but he did not complete his legal studies, choosing instead to pursue a career as a writer. He currently lives in Brisbane. While a law student he was one of the last people arrested under the state's Anti Street March legislation. Birmingham was convicted of displaying a sheet of paper with the words 'Free Speech' written on it in very small type. The local newspaper carried a photograph of him being frogmarched off to a waiting police paddy wagon. Birmingham has a degree in international relations.
Series
Books
Stalin's Hammer
Paris
2016
A Time for War
Australia as a Military Power
2005
How to be a Man
1995
Fail State
2019
Ascendance
2015
Appeasing Jakarta
Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy
2001
Resistance
2015
Zero Day Code
2019
After America
2010
The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco
1996
Soul Full of Guns
2016
Stalin's Hammer
Rome
2012
Here Be Monsters
2008
Emergence
2014
Final Impact
2006
The Brave Ones
East Timor, 1999
2015
Off one's tits
ill-considered rants and raves from a graceless oaf named John Birmingham
2002
Designated Targets
2005
World War 3.1
A Novel of the Axis of Time
2023
How to Be a Writer
Who Smashes Deadlines, Crushes Editors and Lives in a Solid Gold Hovercraft
2016
Weapons of Choice
2004
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand
1994
Zero Day Code
the complete trilogy: Includes Fail State & American Kill Switch
2023
Angels of Vengeance
2012
American Kill Switch
2021
Without Warning
2009
A Girl in Time
2016
A Protocol for Monsters
2016
Sleeper agent
2021
Dopeland
2004
A Captain of the Gate
2011
The Shattered Skies
2022
On Father
2019
Leviathan
The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney
1999
The Golden Minute
2018
Stalin's Hammer
Cairo
2016
Fortune and Glory
2017
The Cruel Stars
2019
