Who was the author from the book "Australian Connection"?

Paul Stewart was born in London in 1955. He studied English and Creative Writing in Lancaster and at university of East Anglia and then he teached abroad, among other things in Germany, Sri Lanka and Australia before he returned to England to a school in Brighton. Since 1990 he only devotes himself to writing children's books, his cooperations with the illustrator Chris Riddell are successful. Paul Stewart lives with his wife and two children in Brighton today.

I give you this information about the author, because I think its important for the readers, that they know something about his life. If you ask me, the reader can maybe imagine,
why he write the story"Australian Connection"? Maybe he had a life without a dad as well like Alex too, so he wrote this story.

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