Christine LeonardChristine is an Australian indie author who is drawn to social history and life writing, Christine is a regular blogger with the Genealogy Society of Queensland and other family history sites. Her first serious writing project was a book on her pateral Wall family, featuring William Wall, who was transported in 1835 to the colony of Van Diemen's Land. Titled The Wall Family: weaving the threads of memories, the book is in its second print run with E-books available through Kobo and the Leonard Stories website.Another project saw Christine editing, and contributing with additional stories, to the memoir written by the late Fr Franz Miltrup sm, a German priest who spent 50 years in Bougainville from 1938. Fr Miltrup died in 1996 after writing his memoir in Tok Pisin. Christine helped Fr Harry Moore sm translate the manuscript into English after which she edited it, to publish When the Garamuts Beat-A Memoir Of Fifty Years In Bougainville. This title is available through the Leonard Stories website. A PDF version is also available.Christine has also contributed chapters in two anthologies. One was published in May 2025 by Convict Women's Press, titled 'Convict Lives: Mothers' Trials and Triumphs', edited by Alison Alexander and Ros Escott. The second anthology is titled The Dinner, published by Women Writers Queensland in 2024. She also writes blogs and short stories for the Queensland Genealogy Society. Read More Read Less