D. Radcliffe
D. Radcliffe — Novelist & Screenwriter — Forster, NSW
Some stories can't be invented. They have to be survived first.
D. Radcliffe doesn't write from a comfortable distance. He writes from the inside — from five years lived on the ground in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where he witnessed things that don't leave you, and things that demanded to be turned into something.
Born in Brisbane and now based on the NSW Mid North Coast, D. Radcliffe spent years immersed in a city that operates by its own brutal logic. What he saw — the exploitation, the silence around it, the moral compromises people make just to keep moving — became the emotional foundation of his debut novel, My Mind Is Sick.
The book follows an inexperienced English teacher who arrives in Phnom Penh wide-eyed and leaves as something else entirely: a vigilante who kills paedophiles, and a man at war with his own soul. It's a psychological thriller and neo-noir that asks an uncomfortable question — what does justice cost the person who delivers it? The vigilante element is deliberately addictive. The moral reckoning is not.
D. Radcliffe left Cambodia in 2020 after what he describes as a vision of doom. Three weeks later, Covid locked the world down. He does not consider this a coincidence. He considers it a reason to write faster.
He is currently writing Perfect Daze, a science fiction novel about brainwave technology and evil sentient AI.
Works: My Mind Is Sick (Novel & Screenplay) · Perfect Daze (Sci-Fi, forthcoming) Already published: My Life In Rock and Other Hard Places · Dust: Lyrics From The Road
D. Radcliffe writes adult fiction. Not for the faint-hearted.
