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Rebecca Lim is an Australian writer, illustrator and editor and the author of over twenty books, including Tiger Daughter (a Kirkus, Amazon and Booklist Best Book, CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers and Victorian Premier’s Literary Award-winner), Two Sparrowhawks in a Lonely Sky (NSW History Award-winner and Book Links Children’s Historical Fiction Award-winner) and the bestselling Mercy. Her work has been twice shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award, shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards, ARA Historical Novel Prize and Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards, shortlisted multiple times for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, Aurealis Awards and Davitt Awards, and longli ...more

Fury - reissued with its 10th anniversary cover

Fury (Mercy, #4) by Rebecca Lim

To celebrate its belated 10th anniversary, Fury has been reissued in paperback and ebook with a beautiful new cover by Megan Ellis. Available now.

For those readers who've been searching in vain for it in paperback, so thrilled to share this with you.

Muse will be reissued with its stunning new 10th anniversary cover later this year. Each new edition of Mercy, Exile, Muse and Fury forms a matche Read more of this blog post »
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Mercy (Mercy, #1)

3.71 avg rating — 6,883 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions
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Exile (Mercy, #2)

3.78 avg rating — 2,845 ratings — published 2011 — 21 editions
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Muse (Mercy, #3)

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Tiger Daughter

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The Astrologer's Daughter

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“My only real solace? Sleep. In the absence of an explanation of anything, for everything, I live for it and what it can bring.”
Rebecca Lim, Mercy

“We angels are misconceived in the human world. People perceive us as kindly and bountiful; when, in truth, we are about as fluffy, as gentle, as yielding, as rattlesnakes.”
Rebecca Lim, Muse

“If I get too comfortable, I will wake one morning and everything around me will have shifted overnight. All I knew? I know no longer. And all I had? Vanished in an instant.
There’s nothing I can keep with me that will stay.
I must always re-establish ties.
I must tread carefulle or give myself away.
I must survive.
I must keep moving, but I don’t know why.”
Rebecca Lim, Mercy

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Rebecca Hi Majenta - thanks so much for your warm good wishes and wishing you a wonderful new year. Your friendship means a lot! Rebecca :)

Majenta wrote: "Hello, Rebecca! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Have a good new week ahead! Blessings!
Best wishes from Majenta"


Majenta wrote: "Hello, Rebecca! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Have a good new week ahead! Blessings!
Best wishes from Majenta"



Majenta Hello, Rebecca! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your books! Happy reading, writing, and everything else. Have a good new week ahead! Blessings!
Best wishes from Majenta


Swiftsea I honestly cannot wait to read 'Mercy'-- I'm the 3rd reserve for the single book available at the PLC Lib. I knew I recognised the cover from today's assembly presentation SOMEWHERE. It was 49th of my 'To Read' list indicating a desire to read it a few months back. Year 12s' a big year so I'm uncertain as whether I'll even be able to read that many novels this year.
Thanks for being an inspiration! :) Would you like to attend this year's House Concerts? Haha.


Cellina NOOOO. I can't find MUSE. I know it's out there but am at the Mercy (excuse the pun) of BIG W and Target as our bookstores have all closed down.

Why must people by everything online. There is nothing like a great novel in your hands.


Annabelle Thanks so much for accepting my friend request! I absolutely adored Mercy! Now I just hope Exile, Muse, and Fury are released in the U.S. as well(:


Georgina thankyouu for accepting my friend request :) I loved Mercy and i'm going to order Exile soon :) they were amazing!!

-Gina :)


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Liz Carmichael Currently reading "Exile", and have to say you've done it again, Rebecca. When I started it I wondered if you would keep my interest as much as with "Mercy", and you have. I was hooked from the first few paragraphs, and find it unputdownable. Now I will have to read the other two when they come out.

Thanks for great reads.
Liz


Rebecca Hi Nat

Thanks so much for reading "mercy" - so glad you liked it! Exile is on its way. Take care and all best wishes from Oz!


BookLoversLife Hi Rebecca, just finished Mercy and I really liked it. Cant wait for the next one!!


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