Bernard Cohen is the author of Paul Needs Specs (Penguin Australia 2003; Kane/Miller USA 2004),
Hardly Beach Weather (Flamingo, 2002)
Snowdome (Allen & Unwin, 1998),
The Blindman's Hat (Allen & Unwin, 1997 — winner of the 1996 Australian/Vogel Literary Award)
and Tourism (Picador, 1992).
Click above for more info on these books: summaries, reviews, extracts. To buy books, please click here.
Or here to go straight to Bernard's writing, including extracts from collaborative works Speedfactory and Foreign Logics.
In 2002, Bernard was writer-in-residence at Sir John Soane's Museum in London, where his main role was to write monthly fictional guidenotes to the collection.You can read them online at the Fictional Soane website.
Here are pictures of Bernard in Soane's Museum and here is a picture of Salman Rushdie presenting him with a writer's award.
In 2006, Bernard set up The Writing Workshop to provide creative writing programs for children. Click here to go to the website.