Steve Wrixon Russell

Steve Russell grew up in Sydney, Australia and has worked in the stockbroking, airline, hospitality and transport industries amongst other things. He owned and operated an interstate transport company for twenty-five years. In his adventurous youth he travelled and lived in Africa for a year, hitch hiking from Cape Town to Nairobi and back in the early seventies. He spent a year in Europe, working in London then travelling through Europe in a campervan. Travelling through East Germany at the height of the cold war to vibrant West Berlin in 1974. Transited the famous checkpoint Charlie in 1974. He’s meddled in politics having served as a Councillor for thirteen years and Mayor of Hornsby for five years, experiencing the highs and lows of politics, the wins, and the losses.

Being a second cousin to the swashbuckling film star, Errol Flynn, he has inherited some but not all of his wicked ways.

Has three adult children and six grandsons, and now lives with his wife Christine on the Hawkesbury River NSW, Australia, on the outskirts of Sydney.

His first book, Don’t Cry For me, Aunt Tina, whilst fiction is based on some of the events and characters he has encountered and met along that journey.

His second book, Night Train to Aswan, was published in 2024

His third book, She’ll be Right, Aunt Tina, the sequel, is currently expected to be published in October 2025.

The third book in the Aunt Tina trilogy, No Worries, aunt Tina, is expected to be published in 2026.