Career
He is best known for The Shadow Girl and The Pause, both published by Penguin Random House. The Pause was released in April 2015. Larkin was born in the South Yorkshire mining town of Maltby, Yorkshire, England.
His mother, Pat, was also from Maltby and his Father Brendan is originally from Ireland.
The family emigrated to Australia in the late 1960s landing in Sydney on Christmas Eve 1969. John is the middle child of three.
Larkin attended Toongabbie Public School and Pendle Hill High School. He studied English Literature at Macquarie University, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, a Bachelor of Education and a Master"s in Creative Writing.
