Jimmy Thomson

Jimmy Thomson has written three military histories of sappers (Army Engineers), a true crime memoir set in Kings Cross and the biographies of cricketer Shane Watson and dual rugby internationalist Wendell Sailor. He is also a successful TV scriptwriter, having created three TV drama series: Breakers (set in Bondi), Crash Palace (set in Kings Cross) and Rain Shadow which ran on the ABC starring Rachel Ward. He has worked in TV across Australia, spent time working for Fox studios in Los Angeles and been nominated three times for TV sitcom writing awards.