Julia Blackburn

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Julia Blackburn


Born
in The United Kingdom
January 01, 1948

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Julia Blackburn is the author of several other works of nonfiction, including Charles Waterton and The Emperor’s Last Island, and of two novels, The Book of Color and The Leper’s Companions, both of which were short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her most recent book, Old Man Goya, was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Blackburn lives in England and Italy.

Average rating: 3.7 · 3,058 ratings · 586 reviews · 44 distinct worksSimilar authors
Time Song: Searching for Do...

3.84 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 2019 — 9 editions
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The Three of Us: A Family S...

3.54 avg rating — 431 ratings — published 2008 — 23 editions
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With Billie: A New Look at ...

3.87 avg rating — 387 ratings — published 2005 — 19 editions
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Threads

4.12 avg rating — 185 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions
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Thin Paths: Journeys in and...

4.03 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2011 — 9 editions
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Daisy Bates in the Desert: ...

3.51 avg rating — 208 ratings — published 1994 — 23 editions
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The Leper's Companions

3.31 avg rating — 211 ratings — published 1999 — 13 editions
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Daisy Bates in the Desert

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The Emperor's Last Island: ...

3.85 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 1991 — 31 editions
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Old Man Goya

3.53 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 2002 — 22 editions
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“The monologue of an isolated person who allows the threads of private thoughts to surface in letters and conversations, even in conversations with strangers.”
Julia Blackburn, Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines

“My two granddaughters are still young;
They walk with precarious confidence
And babble words that are not yet words.
I look at their faces which hold the secret
Of who they already are
And who they are becoming.”
Julia Blackburn, Time Song: Searching for Doggerland

“Everything speaks of what it has been: the leg bone of a wading bird holds the image of that bird standing on the mud of a shoreline, poised on its own mirror reflection.”
Julia Blackburn, Time Song: Searching for Doggerland

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