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Geoffrey McSkimming (born 1 January 1962) is a children's novelist and poet. He is the author of the 19 volume ''Cairo Jim chronicles'' and ''Jocelyn Osgood jaunts'' and the new Phyllis Wong series of mystery novels. McSkimming was born in Sydney, Australia. To write his Cairo Jim stories, he travelled to Egypt, Peru, Tanzania (including Zanzibar), Greece, Mexico, Turkey, Italy and Singapore and other locations. He is much in demand for author talks, and appears with his wife, the magician Sue-Anne Webster, to promote the Phyllis Wong mysteries series. Geoffrey McSkimming has contributed to magazines and poetry anthologies and he has also narrated the ''Cairo Jim chronicles'' as audio books for Bolinda Publishing. He wrote five character tours which were performed in the galleries at the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney, Australia, from 2000 through 2013. In June 2006 Geoffrey McSkimming undertook an author tour of the UK for Walker Books, who released ten titles in the Cairo Jim series in the UK. In 2007, Scholastic published Geoffrey McSkimming's book of verse, ''Ogre in a Toga and Other Perverse Verses''. The audio version of this title, narrated by McSkimming, was shortlisted in the Audie Awards (US) in 2008. Geoffrey McSkimming's 23rd book, "Phyllis Wong and the Waking of the Wizard", was published in 2015 by Allen & Unwin. He is currently writing the fourth story in the Phyllis Wong mysteries series. Geoffrey McSkimming is represented by Curtis Brown Literary Agency, Sydney and London. ==Books== * Phyllis Wong and the Waking of the Wizard (2015) * Phyllis Wong and the Return of the Conjuror (2014) * Phyllis Wong and the Forgotten Secrets of Mr Okyto (2012) * Ogre in a Toga and Other Perverse Verses (2008) * Cairo Jim and the Astragals of Angkor (2007) * Cairo Jim at the Crossroads of Orpheus (2006) * Cairo Jim and the Sumptuous Stash of Silenus (2005) * Cairo Jim and Jocelyn Osgood in Bedlam from Bollywood (2004) * Cairo Jim and the Rorting of Rameses' Regalia (2003) * Cairo Jim and the Chaos from Crete (2002) * Cairo Jim and the Tyrannical Bauble of Tiberius (2001) * Cairo Jim and the Lagoon of Tidal Magnificence (2000) * Cairo Jim Amidst the Petticoats of Artemis (2000) * Cairo Jim and the Secret Sepulchre of the Sphinx (1999) * Jocelyn Osgood in Ascent into Asgard (1998) * Cairo Jim and the Quest for the Quetzal Queen (1997) * Cairo Jim's Bumper Book of Flabbergasting Fragments (1996) * Cairo Jim and the Alabastron of Forgotten Gods (1996) * Jocelyn Osgood and the Xylophones above Zarundi (1995) * Cairo Jim and the Sunken Sarcophagus of Sekheret (1994) * Jocelyn Osgood - After the Puce Empress (1993) * Cairo Jim on the Trail to ChaCha Muchos (1992) * Cairo Jim & Doris in Search of Martenarten (1991) His Cairo Jim and Jocelyn Osgood books are published in many different languages in Australia, United Kingdom, Japan, Korea, Portugal, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Hungary, and New Zealand. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geoffrey McSkimming」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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