The professional bio
Mat Larkin writes children’s adventure stories with heart. After starting out on the Zac Power junior fiction series, his debut middle-grade novel, The Orchard Underground, was voted Best Children’s Book of 2018 by Readings Books customers. His follow-up, The Chameleon Thief, was published in 2022. Mat lives and works on unceded Wurundjeri land in Naarm-Melbourne.
The real bio
Don’t believe anything you hear about Mat Larkin.
A lot of the rumours about him are nonsense. He’s never even met the Queen, so how could she have high-fived him?
There isn’t a video of him hurdling a horse in one leap. That’s a different novelist. And I’m sick of hearing about his world record collection of golf balls. Who even collects those?
He’s just a children’s writer, okay? He started out writing for the Zac Power series, and then he released The Orchard Underground, which was voted Best Children’s Book of 2018 by Readings Books customers. And now The Chameleon Thief is out, the rumours are only going to get worse.
He lives in Naarm-Melbourne, he’s working on more books, and for the last time, he didn’t invent chips.
You can reach me at mat@matlarkin.com.