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Fiona Stocker

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Memoir, Travel, Fiction

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Fiona Stocker is an English / Australian author and freelance writer.

Her rural memoir Apple Island Wife – Slow Living in Tasmania was published by Unbound in 2018. She is a regular contributor to Forty South Tasmania magazine and her articles have appeared in other national and international publications. In 2015, her book about the history of farming women, A Place in the Stockyard, was published privately by Tasmanian Women in Agriculture.

Fiona is currently enrolled in the Master of Arts in Writing and Literature at Deakin University.

Raised in the UK, she now lives on five acres in the West Tamar Valley in northern Tasmania, Australia, with her family.

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	Apple Island Wife: Slow Living In Tasmania 4.07 avg rating — 203 ratings — 5 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
	Saddleback Wife: Slow Food in Tasmania 4.65 avg rating — 17 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
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	A Place in the Stockyard - celebrating Tasmanian Women in Agriculture 4.50 avg rating — 2 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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It’s hard writing a book and even harder marketing one. If you’ve got paperbacks or hard copies out there in bookshops or online, well done. You’ve probably been on a long slog to get to that point.

It’s hard work selling books as well and you have to feel for bricks and mortar booksellers. They’re beset by the encroachment of the digital age and all th

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Make Hay While the Sun Shines: A Year on the Farm

by Tom Pemberton

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The Lightkeeper's Wife

by Karen Viggers (Goodreads Author)

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Fiona Stocker said: " Someone in my book club chose this and I was just not able to get into it. It sounds like a good story, it's set in Tasmania where I live, but at the start of chapter three I found I was still waiting for it to get going. For me, the writing is descr ...more "

Apr 29, 2022 01:21PM · see review

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Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1)

by Tim Marshall

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“The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shockproof, shit detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it.”
― Ernest Hemingway

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