Jimmy Thomson
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Jimmy Thomson

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JIMMY THOMSON is an author, journalist and scriptwriter whose work has taken him all over the world. His next book, The First Anzacs, with Lt Col George Hulse, tells the untold stories of Australian Army engineers (sappers) in the First World War and explains how they were among the first troops to land on Gallipoli but were written out of the official histories. Overlooking the sappers' extraordinary exploits would be a recurring theme in the histories of the Great War, something that The First Anzacs sets out to correct. It will be published by Allen and Unwin on March 31. Jimmy's last non-fiction title was Tunnel Rats Vs The Taliban (co-written with Sandy MacGregor), about Australian sappers (army engineers) in Afghanistan, was published by A&U in August 2015. In 2013 Jimmy wrote Wendell Sailor: Crossing The Line, a first-person biography of the controversial rugby league and union dual international - revealing his real name and family background publically for the first time. It was published by Simon & Schuster. In 2012 A Sappers War a non-fiction book about Australian Army Engineers in the Vietnam War was published by A&U. This was a follow-up to Tunnel Rats, Jimmy’s irreverent history of the Australian Sappers who were the first to explore the Vietcong’s underground cities. In 2011 he wrote Watto the ‘autobiography’ of high-profile Australia cricketer Shane Watson (also A&U), Tunnel Rats and The Koala Bounces Back, the long-awaited sequel to his highly successful children’s book, The Koala Who Bounced (Random House). In 2010 Jimmy’s true crime book Snitch was published in 2010. His crime novels Perfect Criminals and Tunnel Vision (both 2018) were published by Affirm Press and more recently he has also written another two crime novels - Mole Creek (2023) and Twisted River (2025) - under the name James Dunbar for Echo Publications. Jimmy has created or co-created three successful TV drama series in Australia including the acclaimed Rain Shadow, starring Rachel Ward, as well as Crash Palace for Fox TV and Sky UK, and Breakers for Channel 10 and the BBC. He spent several months in 2004 working for Fox Television in Los Angeles has been nominated three times for Australian Writers Guild ‘Awgie’ awards for best sitcom. Jimmy also writes Flat Chat, a popular weekly column on apartment living for the Sydney Morning Herald, his related website received more that 10 million hits last year, he is regularly heard on ABC radio and writes travel features for newspapers and magazines. Jimmy settled in Australia in 1988, having worked as a journalist in Glasgow, London, Kenya and New Zealand. In 2013 he completed a Masters degree in Writing and teaches Australian Literature, from Page to Screen at Boston University's Study Abroad campus in Sydney..
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