She graduated from the
University of Western Australia, having studied English and French; she has taught English as a second language and is a bookseller. She lives in
Fremantle, Western Australia. London is the author of two collections of stories. The first,
Sister Ships and Other Stories, won
The Age Book of the Year (1986), and the second,
Letter to Constantine, won the
Steele Rudd Award and the
Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction (both in 1994). The two were published together as
The New Dark Age. == Awards and nominations ==