Michael Gerard Bauer, winner of the 2005 CBCA Book of the Year Award, short listed for the NSW Premier's Literary Award, the Courier Mail People's Choice Award, and the Victorian Premier's Award, all for The Running Man; winner of the 2007 Children's Peace Literature Award and short listed for the 2007 CBCA Book of the Year, both for Don't Call Me Ishmael, and winner of the Catholic Bishop's Children's Book Prize, talks to Anastasia Gonis about his work.