[1] Her works include the murder mysteries A Beautiful Place to Die and Let the Dead Lie,[2] as well as the award-winning young adult novel, When the Ground Is Hard.
Nunn was born in Swaziland and moved to Perth with her parents in the 1970s.
[4] Nunn wrote and directed several short film including the documentary Servant of the Ancestors in 1998 which screened at several festivals.
[5] It won Best Documentary Silver Images, Pan African, Zanzibar Film Festival, 2000.
It is the first instalment in the Emmanuel Cooper series of novels, set in South Africa in the beginning of the apartheid era.