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Jessica Mudditt

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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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Jessica Mudditt I don't know who my grandfather is. My father was adopted, and he was born during the Second World War. At the time, my grandmother worked at the mini…moreI don't know who my grandfather is. My father was adopted, and he was born during the Second World War. At the time, my grandmother worked at the ministry of supply, which I believe made weapons. She may have had a romance with a sailor who docked into Liverpool - who knows. I'm not sure if I'll ever know.(less)
Jessica Mudditt I don't allow myself to get it! Being a journalist means I am forced to write to meet deadlines, so I just have to get on with it, even when my confid…moreI don't allow myself to get it! Being a journalist means I am forced to write to meet deadlines, so I just have to get on with it, even when my confidence is low or it feels uncomfortable. Once I get going, I am usually fine (and happy).(less)
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Blair Street by Kim Pavy

This is a story loosely based around my mother’s upbringing and how her family survived the great depression and World War 2.  It reflects the survival and resilience of her generation. 

In her lifetime Joyce Wood would have four places she would live in; only three were houses, one was a tent. “Home” represented many things to Joyce. Firstly, a house, then love, arguments, relationship

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This is a beautiful and unusual memoir. It contains an intoxicating combination of Italian diaspora stories in Australia with a childhood in the 1960s in the sugarcane fields of Northern Queensland. Angie writes of the revelations she discovered abou ...more
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