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BiographyHistory

Comedia James O'Loghlin has hosted The New Inventors on ABC television and The Evening Show on radio. A commercial and criminal lawyer before beginning to stand-up comedy in 1990, he has been a regular guest on national television programs that feature comedians including Good News Week, Rove Live, Sunrise, and The Glass House.

He has also written and hosted his own television shows, O'Loghlin on Saturday Night on ABCTV and Inside the Arena on Foxtel's Arena, and he has written and performed several live comedy shows, including Lawyer Lawyer and Caught in the A.C.T. He won the 1999 Variety Heart Award for Comedy.

O'Loghlin has also written Umm- : A Complete Guide to Public Speaking (2006).

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 highly commended Silver Gull Play Award for 'Television'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Criminals South Melbourne : Echo Publishing , 2022 24390836 2022 single work novel crime

'One robbery. Three people. No heroes. Much loved ABC presenter James O'Loghlin's novel explores why and how ordinary people turn to crime.

'What makes a criminal? One May 2019 morning, two masked gunmen rob Blacktown Leagues Club. What happens next will change the lives of three people. Twenty-three-year-old Dean Acton is a heroin addict trying to get off the break and enter treadmill by pulling one big job. Sarah Hamilton, also twenty-three, is a police officer on stress leave, working behind the bar, trying to forget the mistake she made that caused the death of her fiancée. Mary Wallace, a forty-five-year-old ex-schoolteacher who lives and drinks alone, feels that her life is already over, and has made plans to formalise that arrangement.

'When Sarah realises there is something familiar about one of the gunmen, she is drawn back to the thrill of investigating, and can identify Dean. Dean is overjoyed at his $12,000 haul, but before he can decide whether to spend it on a new start in Queensland or a few months' worth of heroin, he's arrested, and in Long Bay jail everyone wants to find out where he's stashed the cash.

'Mary is inspired by the robbery. Pottery and French classes haven't jolted her out of her depression, but perhaps embarking on a life of crime will. She starts small, and then ups the ante. When she, too, is arrested and her lawyer tries to discover why a respectable middle-class woman would steal constipation medication, will she be able to reveal what caused her to give up on teaching and everything else?
Dean learns that the only person who identified him at the robbery was Sarah and is tempted by a plan that will ensure she won't ever be able to give evidence against him. But is he prepared to go that far? And if he does, will he ever come back?

'As Dean's trial approaches, Mary, Dean and Sarah must work out why they have become who they are, and whether they have the courage to change.'  (Publication summary)

2023 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover designed by Josh Durham.
y separately published work icon Unpopular Me Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2018 13723889 2018 single work children's fiction children's

'New kids aren't cool. Everyone knows that. Eleven-year-old Sam is the new kid at school but he has a plan, or two, or three to make himself the most popular kid ever. What you are about to read is unforgettable (lonely losers, frog underpants, human umbrellas, bad boys ...). It's bumpy (jumping out a window is never a good idea). It's the story of a kid who wants to be more. P.S. Sam was not harmed (too much) during the telling of this story.' (Source: Publisher's blurb)

2019 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Eight to 10 Years
y separately published work icon The Twins of Tintarfell Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2016 10187011 2016 single work children's fiction children's fantasy

'Orphaned twins Dani and Bart have lived and worked at Tintarfell Castle for as long as they can remember.

'Nothing remarkable has ever happened to them - until the day Bart is kidnapped.

'As Dani and the devious Prince Edward try to find him, strange becomes even stranger when they encounter a sarcastic giant, a mysterious sorcerer, a retired witch and a warthog named Flango.

'Dani and Bart must decide how far they will go to save themselves, the kingdom, and each other.' (Publication summary)

2017 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Younger Readers
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