The Wattle Island Book Club

Sandie Docker (Author)
Sandie Docker grew up in Coffs Harbour, and first fell in love with reading when her father introduced her to fantasy books as a teenager. Her love of fiction began when she first read Jane Austen for the HSC, but it wasn't until she was taking a translation course at university that her Mandarin lecturer suggested she might have a knack for writing - a seed of an idea that sat quietly in the back of her mind while she lived overseas and travelled the world. Sandie first decided to put pen to paper (yes, she writes everything the old-fashioned way before hitting a keyboard) when living in London. Now back in Sydney with her husband and daughter, she writes every day.

Taylor Owynns (Reader)
Taylor Owynns is an actor and voiceover artist. She studied acting in Melbourne, New York, London and Sydney.

Taylor has done thousands of voiceovers, worked in television and on stage, recorded countless audio books and performed a one-woman show, Still Life, at The Stables Theatre. As well as being the voice for NSW Trains across the state.

Taylor has had some dream jobs, such as playing Lulu in Bananas in Pyjamas for ten years (voicing Lulu as well as performing in a sweaty, synthetic fur bear suit). Oh, the stories she could tell . but, truthfully, she prefers to tell your story, or the stories crafted by the world's authors and biographers.

Sandie Docker (Author)
Sandie Docker grew up in Coffs Harbour, and first fell in love with reading when her father introduced her to fantasy books as a teenager. Her love of fiction began when she first read Jane Austen for the HSC, but it wasn't until she was taking a translation course at university that her Mandarin lecturer suggested she might have a knack for writing - a seed of an idea that sat quietly in the back of her mind while she lived overseas and travelled the world. Sandie first decided to put pen to paper (yes, she writes everything the old-fashioned way before hitting a keyboard) when living in London. Now back in Sydney with her husband and daughter, she writes every day.

Taylor Owynns (Reader)
Taylor Owynns is an actor and voiceover artist. She studied acting in Melbourne, New York, London and Sydney.

Taylor has done thousands of voiceovers, worked in television and on stage, recorded countless audio books and performed a one-woman show, Still Life, at The Stables Theatre. As well as being the voice for NSW Trains across the state.

Taylor has had some dream jobs, such as playing Lulu in Bananas in Pyjamas for ten years (voicing Lulu as well as performing in a sweaty, synthetic fur bear suit). Oh, the stories she could tell . but, truthfully, she prefers to tell your story, or the stories crafted by the world's authors and biographers.