"Updates": I hate to think this is the only John Larkin fansite around, especially as its creator (i.e. me) is trying very hard not to feel responsible for it. To compensate, I'm going to clean it up just a wee drop, particularly re: some shocking non-capital-letterisation-- isn't it awful when you start getting old and you actually CARE about things like capital letters?! Apparently when you get really old, you also start saying "zee" instead of "zed". The horror! --and then leave it as the work of a fourteen year old girl... Arriverderci!
"Biography"... see? SEE why I don't want any part of this site? Because I do things like write "biographies" and then don't LINK IT TO ANYWHERE... well, it's here now, hooray!
"Cooking the Books" is a great new page (because I didn't write it? :), in which John Larkin has ever so kindly provided some comments about several of his books, and it is really interesting to read. So there! (The title, by the way, is due to me being a bit of a big fan of "Black Books"--okay, I thought it was cute at the time)
Old newsflash! : John Larkin has a new book out called "Horse Girl", which is mostly written for 6-8 years olds, I guess. Great illustrations too :) Tell me what the inverse of cosh(x) is and I'll find time to write more about this book, promise :)

I guess John Larkin's style of writing is very much like... like... here, have a quote: "the well-mannered blokey style of Ben Elton and the absurd comic twist of the late Douglas Adams" (Mark Young, bentbooks.com) and I'd have to agree. I'm not particularly sure who Ben Elton is (editor's note: not true! I love "The Young Ones"!) but-- whoo! the absurd comic twist of Douglas Adams, definitely... minus the aliens, the time travel, zaphrod beeblebrox, paranoid androids and hitch-hikers guides to things us humans DON'T find the need to have hitch-hikers guides to. He (John) even comments that reading 'The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy' was what got him into books in the first place. So there you go :)

So now John Larkin's mission seems to be getting everyone ELSE into books, 'specially teenage boys. (from the national literacy and numeracy page, see link below)
"I was thrilled to have been asked to be a Champion for National Literacy and Numeracy Week. It compliments the work that I have been doing in the school system. For the past four years I have been a regular visitor at schools all over Australia. My show promotes reading with the general focus that it's "cool to be clever". It is important for students, particularly boys, to have positive male role models in literacy and numeracy and I'm proud to be part of this wonderful campaign."

You may have noticed at the top of the screen lots of coloured pictures. Well in fact they're book covers. Really. And if you click on the book covers you can find information and a review by me (badly written), and some substantially better reviews by other people. (If you want to write a review, email me! (see bottom of page))

John Larkin can be emailed at >>johnblarkin@yahoo.com.au<< and let me assure you-- he DOESN'T HAVE an "automatic response"! (I've learnt my lesson)... :)

This is cool~ First Person Quiz.com which is kinda like an interview with John Larkin about first ambitions, first memories, first disillusionments... actually, this whole site is pretty cool. They have an interview with TOM BAKER!!! OOOooooh...

How about this: an interview John Larkin had with Dymocks Book shop- or rather, a person who works at Dymocks ie- I'm not sure who, actually. The John Larkin/Dymocks Interview

Here's another interview, this time with someone named Troy Lennon, Obsessed with losers?, which is pretty all right.

Here's another little page you should consider looking at. Similes from Nostradamus and Instant Noodles, compiled together by someone or other who wasn't me

Mustn't forget the reviews of the Visit of Author John Larkin to Year Seven Students page!

And here are some more links to speaking agencies, which also have mini-biographies that I don't reccommend you to read because I've copied all the information into here anyway :)
the booked out speaking agency page, and the Lateral Learning Speaker's Agency page)

for info about purchasing John Larkin's books online, check out dymocks, angus and robertson or alternatively you could just go to a BOOK SHOP (makes sense, no?)...