Born in Northern Ireland during The Troubles, Oliver Sands maintained his relative sanity by escaping into the works of fiction his parents kept in their modest bookcase. It was there he discovered his love of character and story.

He left the North with an engineering masters and a dark sense of humour, and spent some years in Galway, Dublin and London, before totally ignoring his aversion to heat and Vegemite by settling in Sydney. He returns to Ireland when he can and would like to grow old by the Atlantic.

Oliver has completed writing courses at both the Australian Writers’ Centre and the Bronte Writers’ Studio. He is fascinated by what makes people tick, and he particularly loves that part of the creative process when his characters start making demands on the story.

His debut novel, ‘Breeda Looney Steps Forth‘, was highly praised by PUBLISHER’S WEEKLY: “his lyrical prose consistently impresses. Tense and affecting, this is a worthy page-turner.”

Oliver’s second book, ‘The Stranger’s Bed‘, is a gripping suspense about grief, guilt and the risks one woman will take to uncover the truth about her missing friend.

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