History's a Mystery Once More (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781985584075)

Dell Brand grew up in Sydney, attending North Sydney Girls High School and Sydney University. She taught in state high schools during her working life, teaching Physical and Health Education. She was recognised with the Minister's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Outstanding Achievement in Education Award from the Australian College of Education. She has always had a keen interest in children with learning difficulties and challenging behaviours and worked for a number of years with a wilderness-enhanced program aimed at turning around young people's lives. This formed the basis of her PhD. In more recent years she developed a particular interest in family history and history in general. Dell was also a part-time journalist and was published by a number of editors both in Australia and abroad. She contributed regularly to four Australian magazines and frequently to newspapers where she used her own travel experiences to write first-hand of places she had seen and people she had met. Some of these places also found their way into this book. Dell loves the outdoors, especially the wilderness. In her younger years she was a keen swimmer and an A grade squash player. She now enjoys all outdoor pursuits and tries to play golf regularly. She is married with two grown-up children and five funtastic grandchildren. She lives on the south coast of New South Wales.