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Jessica Mudditt

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in Melbourne, Australia

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Biography, Travel, Memoir

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Jessica Mudditt is the author of two travel memoirs, Our Home in Myanmar and Once Around the Sun.

She is also the founder of hybrid publisher Hembury Books. Established in 2023, Hembury Books strives to delight authors of all genres.

She is a former journalist and her bylines appeared in The Economist, BBC, CNN, GQ, The Telegraph and Marie Claire.

She spent seven years reporting from Bangladesh and Myanmar, before returning to Australia in 2016.

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Average rating: 4.31 · 177 ratings · 45 reviews · 2 distinct works • Similar authors

	Our Home in Myanmar: Four years in Yangon 4.28 avg rating — 158 ratings — 8 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
	Once Around the Sun: From Cambodia to Tibet 4.53 avg rating — 19 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

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Karen: It’s difficult to choose just one area of writing I have worked the hardest to master because, like most writers, I am self-critical in all areas of my craft and forever polishing my work!

My debut novel begins in the early Bronze Age in Cornwall, UK, but most o

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A Fraction Stronger: Finding Belief and Possibility in Life's Impossible Moments

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