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Behind the Scenes Louis Esson (Australian theatre) Australian playwright, poet, journalist and critic, Louis Esson (1878-1943) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He moved with his mother to Melbourne, Australia when he was 3. For most of his childhood in Melbourne, Louis lived with his aunts and uncles, only visiting his mother during school holidays. In the 1920s, Esson was a co-founder of the Pioneer Players, a theatre company dedicated to the performance of Australian plays. Although the Pioneer Players survived only 4 years, Louis Esson is widely regarded as the ‘father of Australian drama’. External Website

Authors R At a cost ➝ A Hole in the World: An American Boyhood?Tenth Anniversary Edition ➝ Tell Me Why: The Story of My Life and My Music ➝ Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt ➝ The Women Who Raised Me ➝ The Rale Rasic Story ➝ Three Little Words ➝ Our Fathers Cleared the Bush: Remembering Eyre Peninsula ➝ Touch Wood: A Girlhood in Occupied France ➝ The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell ➝ While the Locust Slept ➝ The Life of Riley ➝ The Continuing Education of the Artist as a Mature Woman ➝ The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau ➝ Orphanage Boy ➝ Back to Top

Television Shows The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (tv show) 2023 The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart is an Amazon series starring Sigourney Weaver and Alicia Debnam-Carey and based on the novel by Australian Holly Ringland. Set in Australia, the series is centred on a flower farm specialising in Australian natives. The women on the farm create bouquets which have a meaning developed over generations. The farm also provides a refuge for women who’ve been battered by men. As well, there is a young woman who was taken in as a baby, and an orphaned girl who is being raised by her grandmother. External Website

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Blogs/Web Pages/Articles Who We Are Who Cares Scotland A look at the representation of Care Experienced People in fictional and news media over time. External Website

Writers Valerie Mason-John 1962- Dr. Valerie (Vimalasara) Mason-John (b.1962) is a public speaker, mindfulness teacher, author and the co-founder of Eight Step Recovery. She was in English orphanages and foster care as a child, with the exception of a short period back with her mother when she was a teenager. Valerie went on to become a journalist and performer, and was the artistic director of the London Mardi Gras from 1997 to 2000. She was also director of the Pride Arts Festival for 4 years. She is the author of the award winning "Borrowed Body", a novel informed by her experiences in care, and she has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of East London. Valerie is co-founder of "Eight Step Recovery - Using The Buddha's Teaching to Overcome Addiction." She is the author of the award winning "Borrowed Body", a novel informed by her experiences in care, and she has an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of East London. Valerie is co-founder of "Eight Step Recovery - Using The Buddha's Teaching to Overcome Addiction." External Website

Plays & Musicals featuring Care Exp Standing at the Sky's Edge Chris Bush and Richard Hawley 2019 Three interlinked stories about living on the Park Hill estate in Sheffield over 60 years. The second story is about Joy who moves to Sheffield with her cousins in the 1980s to escape the civl war in Liberia. She is about 14 and has had to leave her parents behind. This is a musical featuring the music of Richard Hawley. External Website

Films/Videos Stormbreaker 2006 Stormbreaker (2006) is the first adaption of Anthony Horowitz's novel series, Alex Rider. Teenage Alex is living in kinship care with his uncle. When uncle Ian dies, Alex finds out his unclde was an MI6 agent who was murdered. Alex is then recruit to the Special Operations Division of MI6, is sent for training and is sent off on his first mission to investigate a billionaire who is donating computer systems code to UK schools. External Website

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Performing Arts Comedian, author, screenwriter Deborah Frances-White Deborah Frances-White is a London-based comedian, author and screenwriter who also delivers corporate seminars. Frances-White was born in Australia and adopted at ten days old. She grew up in Brisbane, Queensland. Her family converted to Jehovah’s Witnesses when she was a teenager; Frances-White has since left the community and describes herself as an atheist and moved to London. Her BBC Radio 4 series 'Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice' won her a Writers Guild Award. Her film 'Say My Name' was out in spring 2019. She is developing a play for the Almeida, a television series with Merman for Netflix and she recently finished the screenplay for her second film Making Babies for Redwave Films. Her book The Guilty Feminist was published by Virago in 2021. External Website

Comics, Comic books & Graphic Novels Manga - The Promised Neverland Kaiu Shirai (Author), Posuka Demizu (Illustrator) 2016-2020 The Promised Neverland is a Japanese manga series written by Kaiu Shirai and illustrated by Posuka Demizu. Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems… Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest kids at the Grace Field House orphanage. And under the care of the woman they refer to as “Mom,” all the kids have enjoyed a comfortable life. Good food, clean clothes and the perfect environment to learn—what more could an orphan ask for? One day, though, Emma and Norman uncover the dark truth of the outside world they are forbidden from seeing. External Website

Authors B Shadow and Bone (novel) ➝ The Outside Child ➝ Nothing Else ➝ Quiet No More ➝ The Good Guy ➝ Death of the Heart ➝ The Quiet You Carry ➝ Mountain in My Shoe. ➝ Rubyfruit Jungle ➝ Back to Top

Actors Harry H. Corbett ➝ Tiffany Haddish ➝ Barbara Stanwyck ➝ Angela Shelton (Actor) ➝ Jamie Foxx ➝ Benjamin Zephaniah (Actor) ➝ George Lopez ➝ Pierce Brosnan (actor) ➝ Liz Smith ➝ Freddie Bartholomew ➝ Carol Burnett ➝ Lennie James (actor) ➝ James McAvoy ➝ Orson Welles ➝ Barry Evans ➝ Victoria Rowell ➝ Rosie Perez ➝ Eartha Kitt ➝ Jack Thompson ➝ Sidney Poitier ➝ Charlotte Ayanna ➝ Sylvester Stallone ➝ Adam Beach ➝ Noel Tovey ➝ Neil Morrissey ➝ Eddie Murphy ➝ Charlie Murphy ➝ Billy Connolly ➝ Gianna Simone ➝ Stanley J Browne ➝ Brian Syron ➝ Richard Burton ➝ Alain Delon ➝ Ray Liotta ➝ Carol Grace ➝ Candi Marie ➝ Keegan-Michael Key ➝ Nina Mae McKinney ➝ Kristin Chenoweth ➝ Marilyn Monroe (actor) ➝ Gary Coleman ➝ Monroe Martin III ➝ John Thomson ➝ Sophie Willan ➝ Chad Coleman ➝ Ice-T ➝ Lesley Sharp ➝ Samantha Morton ➝ Kathy Burke ➝ Cassidy Mack ➝ James Dean ➝ Lena Horne (actor) ➝ Tommy Davidson ➝ Jane Wyman ➝ Cary Grant ➝ Margaret Rutherford ➝ Barry Keoghan ➝ Lee Majors ➝ Charlie Chaplin (Actor) ➝ Jim Hoffmaster ➝ Gary Coleman ➝ Paul Barber ➝ Jack Nicholson ➝ Ingrid Bergman ➝ Michael Caine ➝ Ronald Magill ➝ Sarah Bernhardt ➝ Jimmie Fails ➝ Jack Charles ➝ Felicia Pearson ➝ Brian Cox ➝ Frances McDormand ➝ Sigrid Thornton ➝ Rajesh Khanna ➝ Aaron Pedersen ➝ Pom Klementieff ➝ Back to Top

Television Shows You 2018 You is a TV series starring Penn Badgley, Victoria Pedretti, and Ambyr Childers. A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by. The story follows Joe Goldberg, a bookstore manager who was in the foster care system as a child. A Mr Mooney took care of Joe, showing him how to run his bookstore, but he was also abusive of the boy, abuse which included looking him a glass cage as punishment. External Website

Writers William Makepeace Thackeray 1811-1863 William Makepeace Thackera was an English novelist, author and illustrator, who was born in India. British writer, William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863), was in kinship care as a child. Thackeray was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal) to Richmond and Anne Thackeray and named after his paternal grandfather. Richmond Thackeray was doing well in his career at the time of William’s birth, but died just 4 years later. At the end of 1816, Anne Thackeray sent William to England. For 12 months, William’s maternal great-grandmother and maternal great-aunt cared for the child at Fareham, a small town between Portsmouth and Southampton in England. He went to school in Southampton. External Website

Behind the Scenes Edward Albee Edward Franklin Albee III ( A1928 – 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Albee was placed for adopted when he was two weeks old and adopted by a theatre owner and a socialite. Some critics have argued that some of Albee's work constitutes an American variant of what Martin Esslin identified and named the Theater of the Absurd. Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. Younger American playwrights, such as Paula Vogel, credit Albee's mix of theatricality and biting dialogue with helping to reinvent postwar American theatre in the early 1960s. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir Bitter Almond: A Memoir Doug Terry 2025 Set in the early 60s, Bitter Almond charts the disintegration of a family’s life as, evicted from their country cottage, five young boys find themselves swallowed up by the old workhouse system, still going strong. After a summer spent with their mother in a “concentration camp” of collapsing wooden huts they are moved to the infamous Newington Lodge in Southwark before, in a final separation, being sent on to Eastry Childrens home as “looked after kids” placed in the care of the state. Abuse, belittling and military-style discipline follow. Yet hope remains. What will it take for Mum and Dad to get their children back? External Website

Cartoons Sesame Street - Foster Care 2019 Fostering a child takes patience, resilience, and sacrifice. Sesame Street in Communities has created new resources to help children in crisis cope with separation from their birth parents, placement in #fostercare, and possible reunions. External Website

Fiction by Care Experienced authors Poppy Shakespeare Clare Allan ➝ Quiet No More Nikki Barthelmess ➝ Nothing Else Louise Beech ➝ Rubyfruit Jungle Rita Mae Brown ➝ Karobran: the story of an Aboriginal girl Monica Clare ➝ Lola in the Mirror Trent Dalton ➝ Great Expectations Charles Dickens ➝ Nothing Natural Jenny Diski ➝ Careful, He Might Hear You (novel) Sumner Locke Elliott ➝ The Panopticon Jenni Fagan ➝ The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling Henry Fielding ➝ Invisible thread Maree Giles ➝ Thicker Than Water Kathryn Harrison ➝ Oi: Snowball Meets Some Very Toxic People David Jackson ➝ The Attic Child Lola Jaye ➝ The White Bird Passes Jessie Kesson ➝ One Hundred Years of Solitude (Novel) Gabriel Garcia Marquez ➝ Emily of New Moon Lucy Maud Montgomery ➝ Shattered Paths Daniel Rolph ➝ The Hobbit J R R Tolkien ➝ Brenton Brown Alex Wheatle ➝ Oranges are not the only fruit Jeanette Winterson ➝ Shadow and Bone (novel) Leigh Bardugo ➝ The Outside Child Nina Bawden ➝ Mountain in My Shoe. Louise Beech ➝ Careless Kirsty Capes ➝ Jae-Dee Survives the Home of Many Mothers: Jae-Dee Collier ➝ All Our Shimmering Skies Trent Dalton ➝ David Copperfield: The Personal History of David Copperfield Charles Dickens et al. ➝ State Ward Alan Duff ➝ Water under the bridge Sumner Locke Elliott ➝ The Sunlight Pilgrims Jenni Fagan ➝ The Widow's Children Paula Fox ➝ Stone Girl Eleni Hale ➝ Home Bird Fran Hill ➝ Orphan Sisters Lola Jaye ➝ Borrowed Body Mason Valerie John ➝ Kim Rudyard Kipling ➝ A Ticket to Ride Paula McLain ➝ Anne of Green Gables L M Montgomery ➝ Son of Sin Omar Sakr ➝ Cane Warriors Alex Wheatle ➝ The Seven Sisters Alex Wheatle ➝ Man Who Lived Underground Richard Wright ➝ The Quiet You Carry Nikki Barthelmess ➝ The Good Guy Susan Beale ➝ Death of the Heart Elizabeth Bowen ➝ Nights at the Circus Angela Carter ➝ Boy Swallows Universe (Novel) Trent Dalton ➝ Oliver Twist Charles Dickens ➝ Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens et al. ➝ Fairyland Sumner Locke Elliott ➝ Eden's lost Sumner Locke Elliott ➝ Luckenbooth Jenni Fagan ➝ Ruth Elizabeth ➝ Notice Me!: A Barnardo Child's Scrapbook of Memories : 1946 to 1961 Suzi Hamilton ➝ Cuckoo in the Nest Fran Hill ➝ Being Lara: A Novel Lola Jaye ➝ Trumpet Jackie Kay ➝ The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson ➝ When the Stars Go Dark Paula McLain ➝ His dark materials / Philip Pullman. Philip Pullman ➝ The Queen's Gambit (novel) Walter Tevis ➝ Kemosha of the Caribbean Alex Wheatle ➝ Brixton Rock Alex Wheatle ➝ Back to Top