play of the year for Night Train, as he had for a long time believed himself to be Jewish, before finding out the truth about his ancestral past. McCutcheon founded the Illusion Farm, based in the Tasmania mountains, a Buddhist centre providing care for people in need, free of charge. It has accommodated more than 3,000 people during its operation. The Illusion Circus Theatre Company has also been based on the farm. Bibliography McCutcheon has written a number of bestselling novels. His first, In Wolf's Clothing (1997), was the runner-up in the 1995 HarperCollins National Fiction Prize out of 400 novels. His other novels include Peace Crimes (1998) Poison Tree (1999) Safe Haven (2000) Delicate Indecencies (2002) The Haha Man (2003) The Cobbler's Apprentice (to be published September 2006) Black Widow (2006) Black Widow is based on events following the September 1, 2004 terrorist attack on a Russian school in the southern town of Beslan. Other books by McCutcheon are Blik! (2002), an illustrated book for children and Quirky Questions (2000) New edition of More Quirky Questions (2005). McCutcheon has also written many short stories and poems. His memoir, The Magician's Son, published in 2005 by Penguin, is an autobiographical work. The title is taken from a dream he had about finding his birth father, in which he discovered a magician's trunk in an attic. When he found out who his birth parents were, he learned that his father had in fact been an amateur magician. Resources and external links Sandy McCutcheon's Moroccan web site Australia Talks Back ABC Radio National Australia Talks Back Presenter -- Sandy McCutcheon Murray Waldren's article about Sandy McCutcheon Lily Bragge, Finding Sandy, The Sunday Age, 17 July 2005. 20th-century Australian novelists 21st-century Australian novelists Australian male novelists Australian male short story writers People from Brisbane Buddhism in Australia Living people 1947 births 20th-century Australian short story writers 21st-century Australian short story writers 20th-century Australian male writers 21st-century Australian male writers