Books from a restless life

Lyle Closs grew up in Tasmania and started writing in his teens. He was a leading Australian rock climber in the early 1970s and wrote climbing articles and non-climbing short stories before moving on to fiction and full-length non-fiction.

He later worked as a journalist and in public relations, first in Sydney and then in Singapore and London. His experiences in some of the world's wildest places imbues his writing with a sense of wonder and of characters fighting to survive in situations where there is rarely an easy way out.