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Mike Lucas

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Born

The United Kingdom

Website

http:/www.mikelucas.com.au

Genre

Young Adult, Children's, Poetry

Influences

Stephen King, James Herbert, Clive Barker

Member Since

July 2020

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Mike Lucas is an author of picture books and young adult novels. His YA fiction has been shortlisted for the Readings Book Prize, CBCA Book of the Year Awards and the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. His picture book Where is Cheeky Monster? won the 2025 Speech Pathology Award for children from birth to 3 years. Mike presents writing and poetry workshops at schools, owns a bookshop in Blackwood, South Australia, and works as a full-time engineer. He has very little time to sleep, but often thinks up a poem or two while he does.

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Average rating: 3.48 · 753 ratings · 130 reviews · 14 distinct works • Similar authors

	What We All Saw 3.34 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 2022 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One By One They Disappear 3.55 avg rating — 190 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let's Build a House by Mike Lucas (Goodreads Author), Daron Parton (Illustrations) 4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Christmas Train by Mike Lucas (Goodreads Author), Sofya Karmazina (Illustrator) 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Olivia's Voice by Mike Lucas (Goodreads Author), Jennifer Harrison (Illustrator) 4.14 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Let Them Leave 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2026 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vanishing 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Where is Cheeky Monster? by Mike Lucas (Goodreads Author), Heidi McKinnon 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2024	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bad Herbert 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Naughty Herbert by Mike Lucas (Goodreads Author), Heidi Cooper Smith (Illustrations) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sherlock Holmes: Classic Stories

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The Castle of Otranto

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Bodysnatchers: Digging Up the Untold Stories of Britain's Resurrection Men

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“There was just a resignation that, at some point in the near future, we were all going to have to face some kind of music. What the song was depended on our ability not only to sing, but to sing the same tune.”
― Mike Lucas, What We All Saw

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