Melbourne / Internet/ -   Brad Collis is Melbourne-based writer and journalist. Snowy - The Making of Modern Australia was his first book, commissioned in 1988. He was born in Perth in 1955. Brad has worked and lived in several countries, including The Netherlands, Slovenia and the former USSR. Aside from 25 years as a professional journalist, he is also an experienced potter, and a keen bushman and photographer.
In December 1993, Hodder&Stoughton published his first novel The Soul Stone.
 He is now finishing the final draft of his second novel; its titled yet to be finalised. The story oscillates between Slovenia during the 1941-45 communist revolution in Yugoslavia, and a present-day western ‘democracy’. Through the lives of two brothers the book parallels the 50-year communist experience in Eastern Europe, against the cultural and social struggle by those who fled to exil in countries like Australia, the US and Canada. The novel is an exploration of the meaning of freedom and, again, the measure of historical fact against official history.