Sue Williams is an award-winning journalist and columnist who's written for all of Australia's leading newspapers and magazines. She also appears regularly on TV and on radio, and has had her own TV segment on SBS TV's popular Hotline program. Born in England, she has also worked in print and TV in the UK and New Zealand.

Sue spent many years travelling extensively around the world, alone with her backpack. She wrote about some of her most terrifying - and triumphant - journeys in her Getting There: Journeys of an Accidental Adventurer.

Her first best-selling biography was Peter Ryan: The Inside Story, the tale of Australia's most colourful, and controversial, police commissioner, the top British police officer brought over to stamp out corruption in the country's most rotten forces, NSW. Mean Streets, Kind Hearts: The Father Chris Riley Story was her second best-seller, which went into reprint an astonishing five times in the first three months of publication.

Sue has also co-authored a motivational women's health guide, Powering Up, and contributed to a collection of short stories, Love, Obsession, Secrets & Lies.

Her next book, an in-depth look at the property market, and Australia's first guide to apartments, came out in July 2004. Called Apartment Living: A Complete Guide to Buying, Renting, Surviving and Thriving in Apartments, it was written with Jimmy Thomson and published by ABC Books.

Then Sue wrote a book about medical ethics, Death of a Doctor: how the medical profession turned on one of their own, a chilling true story about how one of Australia’s leading alternative practitioners was destroyed by the health complaints process.

Next came World Beyond Tears: The Ongoing Story Of Father Chris Riley, about the priest's incredible efforts to help children in devastated Banda Aceh after the Boxing Day tsunami. He also launched projects in East Timor, the Philippines and Albania for impoverished children who had no one else to turn to – and enlisted his Australian kids to help him.

Just after Christmas 2005, And Then The Darkness: the disappearance of Peter Falconio and the trial of Joanne Lees was released, a frightening book about one of Australia's most bizarre true-life crimes, the killing of a British backpacker and the attempted abduction of his girlfriend on a lonely stretch of road in the Northern Territory's Barrow Creek. It was the result of three years of intense research in the UK and all around Australia, and reads just like a psychological thriller – except that it happens to be true! It is about to be made into a TV film by Australia's Screentime and Britain's Power TV, and will show all around the world.

Shortly before Australia Day 2006, came another book, The Spirit of Australia, written with Selwa Anthony. A celebration of everything Australian, it’s an inspirational guilde for the nation, which shows how people can make a difference – to themselves, their community and their country.

Sue lives in Sydney with her partner Jimmy Thomson and their two cats.