About Robert Macklin

Best Selling Author

My Story

Robert is one of Canberra’s most wide-ranging and accomplished authors with no fewer than five awards to his name – the $30,000 Blake Dawson prize for best Business Literature 2009 and Four annual Canberra Critics Circle book awards. 

His work includes four novels, one adapted to the MGM film, ‘Storyville’ starring James Spader and Jason Robards; and The Queenslander currently optioned for a three-part TV series. His non-fiction books include biographies of Hamilton Hume, Kevin Rudd and Jacka VC, as well as the bestsellers, SAS Sniper and the highly acclaimed Castaway 2021. The Man Who Planted Canberra is his 31^st published work. Five of his books have been published in China, others in the UK, USA and New Zealand.

He lives in Weston with his wife, the former Teacher of many hundreds of young Canberrans, Wendy Macklin