Jade Timms
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Jade Timms

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Jade Timms lives in a small country town in southern New South Wales. Her debut YA novel, Golden, was shortlisted for the Text Prize and the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People’s Literature, and was a 2026 CBCA Honour Book for Older Readers. The Good Boys is her second novel.

Books by Jade Timms
Golden
Jade Timms

Honour Book, CBCA Book of the Year Award for Older Readers, 2026

A life-affirming, upbeat story about friendship, loss, first love, what it is to be an artist, and life in an idyllic Australian beach town—from an exciting new YA voice.

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The Good Boys
Jade Timms

An uplifting YA novel about friendship, first love and the complexity of grief in the wake of a tragic quadbike accident, set over one hot summer in country NSW.

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Golden is a CBCA Book of the Year Awards Honour Book!

Congratulations to Jade Timms! Golden has been recognised as an Honour Book for Older Readers in the 2026 CBCA Books of the Year Awards.