Welcome to the website of J.D Patterson, the author of Aussie Noir thriller Dark in Different Ways.

J.D Patterson wrote Dark in Different Ways while undertaking a mentorship programme at the Faber Academy. He’s always wanted to write fiction. In the early 2000s, he spent a couple of years in Australia and New Zealand. He now lives in London where he works for a university.

He has also written non-fiction pieces which have been published on the Open Democracy website, in the Times Higher Education Supplement, and in the Australian Quarterly.