Christine Leonard — writer, indie author, editor.

Biography

Christine is an Australian indie author who is drawn to social history and life-writing. She is a regular blogger and short story writer with the Genealogy Society of Queensland and other family history sites. Her first book was about the Wall family, featuring William Wall, who was transported to the colony of Van Diemen’s Land in 1835. Titled The Wall Family: weaving the threads of memories, the book is in its second print run with E-books available through Kobo and the Leonard Stories website.

Another project saw Christine editing and contributing additional stories to the memoir written by the late Fr Franz Miltrup sm, a German priest who spent 50 years in Bougainville from 1938. Fr Miltrup died in 1996 after writing his memoir in Tok Pisin. Christine helped Fr Harry Moore sm translate the manuscript into English after which she edited it, to publish When the Garamuts Beat—A Memoir Of Fifty Years In Bougainville. This title is now available as a second edition through the Leonard Stories website, bookstores and online in Australia and overseas.

Christine has also contributed chapters to two anthologies. One was published in May 2025 by Convict Women's Press, titled Convict Lives: Mothers' Trials and Triumphs, edited by Alison Alexander and Ros Escott. The second anthology, titled The Dinner, was published by Women Writers Queensland in 2024.

Her third book, Coochiemudlo: A Mariner’s Paradise, was released in paperback in July 2025. It’s a feel-good story about the highs and lows of a small island community in Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia, set in the 1960s, 1970s and beyond.