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Jane grew up in Canberra and travelled via San Francisco and Melbourne to Tasmania, where she works as a writer for a conservation organisation. Her first novel, A Wrong turn at the Office of Unmade Lists, won the Small Press Network’s Most Underrated Book Award and her second novel, From the Wreck, won the Aurealis Award and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. She is also the author of a non-fiction guide to surviving and living with climate change called The Handbook and a novella, Formaldehyde, which won the 2015 Seizure Viva La Novella Prize. You can read her essays in Living with the Anthropocene; Fire, Flood, Plague; and Reading like an Australian Writer.

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	From the Wreck 3.53 avg rating — 1,004 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Wrong Turn at the Office of Unmade Lists 3.64 avg rating — 368 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Formaldehyde 4.11 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire Flood and Plague: Australian writers respond to 2020 by Sophie Cunningham (Editor), Lenore Taylor (Contributor), Nyadol Nuon (Contributor) 3.78 avg rating — 104 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human/Nature: On Life in a Wild World 4.31 avg rating — 75 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A History of Dreams 3.62 avg rating — 87 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ecopunk! - speculative tales of radical futures by Liz Grzyb (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cat Sparks (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jason Nahrung (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.57 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Handbook: Surviving and Living with Climate Change by Jane Rawson (Goodreads Author), James Whitmore (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Breathing Space: essays, stories and poems on Tasmanians' changing relationship with nature by Jane Rawson (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ben Walter (Editor) 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Human/Nature: On life in a wild world 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Let’s take a look at the spreadsheet as we hit the halfway mark in another exciting year. Has moving to the country made me read more? Better? Quicker? Do I just spend all my time looking out the window at birds? (Not today – today it’s so windy all the birds are in their homes, wherever those might be.)

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“And if they're fictional, it is entirely acceptable to cheat on fictional men with other fictional men.”
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Sci-fi and Heroic...: 2013 Aurealis Award WINNERS Announced	4	27	Apr 06, 2014 07:18AM
Aussie Readers: Aussie Author Challenge 2014	1146	473	Jan 04, 2015 04:27AM
Aussie Readers: Your end of year top 5 - 10 AUSSIE AUTHOR titles of 2017	33	174	Jan 02, 2018 03:00AM
Aussie Readers: Annual Aussie Authors Challenge 1/1/18 - 31/12/18	862	399	Jan 02, 2019 05:14AM
Reading Through t...: Australia pre-1900	25	133	Aug 29, 2019 06:12AM
Aussie Readers: September Challenge - Celebrating Libraries	162	139	Oct 02, 2019 10:17PM
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“I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks”
― John Steinbeck

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“There was a time—until very recently in the scheme of things—when there were no wild animals, because every animal was wild; and humans were few. Animals, and animal presence over us and around us. Over every horizon, animals. Their skins clothing our skins, their fats in our lamps, their bladders to carry water, meat when we could get it.”
― Kathleen Jamie, Sightlines

tags: animals, natural-history, wild

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“I've found that there is always some beauty left -- in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

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