S.C. Karakaltsas, a Melbourne-based writer, is the author of five historical fiction novels. She grew up on a dairy farm in South-East Queensland where her love of books began, setting the stage for her future literary endeavours.
After navigating the labyrinths of the corporate world for many years, she followed her passion for storytelling, bringing to life stories about little-known places and events. Her inspiration has come from a real-life double murder on a Central Pacific Island to the forced kidnapping of children during the Greek Civil War. Her novel Sugar Creek is set in Far-North Queensland and surrounds the disappearance of a man. Funnily enough, most of her works are set in and around 1948. Except for Stanley Place which is set in 1975.
When she’s not writing, she indulges in her love of reading and blogs about the books that captivate her. Check out her treasure trove of insightful reviews and reflections on her webpage, or just drop by and say hello. Latest Book Reviews Take a look at her internationally published works.
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Rich in detail and epic in scope, The Good Child is a powerful novel of emotional and financial resilience, loss and unexpected friendship.
A Perfect Stone (2018) is about the plight of a young Macedonian boy escaping the Greek Civil War in 1948. An international best seller in Canada and Australia, the novel continues to receive widespread reviews.
Her father passed away some years ago and S.C. Karakaltsas discovered letters he’d written in 1948 to her grandmother. From the letters, a story of hardship, Colonialism, racism, violence and murder was untangled. Her first novel, Climbing the Coconut Tree, (2016) is an historical fiction set on a Central Pacific phosphate mining island and is inspired by the true story of the murder of two workers.
Check out her blog post for more on Climbing the Coconut Tree https://sckarakaltsas.wordpress.com/2015/05/19/the-letters/
S.C. Karakaltsas has received accolades for her short stories and has work published in the Lane Cove Literary Awards Anthology and Monash Writers Anthology. She also has work collected and published in Her short story collection, Out of Nowhere (2017) takes a contemporary look at the Australian lifestyle.
