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Robyn Mundy

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Wild places form a big part of my life, and my writing. My novel Cold Coast is set in the high Arctic and tells the story of Svalbard's remarkable first female trapper Wanny Woldstad. Wildlight is set on Tasmania's remote Maatsuyker Island, home to Australia's loneliest lighthouse where my partner Gary and I spent ten months in isolation as caretakers and weather observers. I have wintered and summered in Antarctica, the setting for my first novel The Nature of Ice. Each year I work aboard ice-strengthened ships that head off to polar regions on adventure tourist voyages. My guiding role helped me co-author a young readers' illustrated book Epic Adventure: Epic Voyages. I am currently working on a new historical novel…you guessed it, se ...more

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Cold Coast, by Robyn Mundy

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Just last week I was toying with the idea of joining Marina Sofia in her December reading project ‘Russians in the Snow’ because I thought that settings in snowy wastes would be consoling in the extreme heat of an Australian summer. Little did I know that within a day or two I would be reading a book that sent a chill down my spine, and not just because it’s set in the

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Average rating: 4.05 · 1,055 ratings · 191 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cold Coast 4.24 avg rating — 587 ratings — 7 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
	Wildlight 3.82 avg rating — 289 ratings — published 2016 — 3 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
	The Nature of Ice 3.72 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2009 — 6 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
	The Best Australian Stories 2013 by Kim Scott (Editor), Kalinda Ashton, Tony Birch 3.55 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 2013 — 3 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
	La Femme au renard bleu by Robyn Mundy (Goodreads Author), Élodie Coello (translator) 4.20 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2024 — 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
	Epic Adventure: Epic Voyages by Robyn Mundy (Goodreads Author), Nigel Rigby 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2010 — 6 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
	The Sky Falls Down: An Anthology of Loss by Terry Whitebeach (Editor), Gina Mercer (Editor), Petrea King (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2019	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
	Eroi del mare. I più grandi navigatori della storia by Robyn Mundy (Goodreads Author), Nigel Rigby, G. Del Ciuco (Translator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 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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Robyn Mundy liked Jo Khan's review of Cold Coast: "stunning nature writing"
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Robyn Mundy liked Julie Webb's review of A Great Act of Love: A Novel: "I enjoyed the book and learning about parts of History. I liked the main characters, especially Caroline and Cornelius. Some sections were too convenient and I didn’t love the ending. "
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Robyn Mundy rated a book it was amazing A Great Act of Love by Heather Rose (Goodreads Author)	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
My favourite Heather Rose novel so far. While it is epic in scale and breadth, at its heart it remains the intimate story of Caroline, an intelligent, courageous woman who navigates tragedy and danger to carve out a life in 1840s Van Diemen’s Land. I ...more
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Robyn Mundy rated a book it was amazing Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan (Goodreads Author)	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
I LOVED Tenderfoot. It is an easy reading, heart wrenching, coming-of-age story, with 12-year-old narrator Andie who lives and breathes on the page. You do not have to be in to greyhounds at all, though through Andie’s love of her dog Tippy, I gained ...more
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Robyn Mundy and 5 other people liked Colette Godfrey's review of Tenderfoot: "I don’t like greyhound racing or gambling but I do like greyhounds, Toni Jordan’s writing, coming of age stories and books set in Brisbane. The odds were in my favour and this turned out to be a winner. What I wasn’t betting on was having my heart br" Read more of this review »
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Robyn Mundy rated a book it was amazing Tenderfoot by Toni Jordan (Goodreads Author)	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
I LOVED Tenderfoot. It is an easy reading, heart wrenching, coming-of-age story, with 12-year-old narrator Andie who lives and breathes on the page. You do not have to be in to greyhounds at all, though through Andie’s love of her dog Tippy, I gained ...more
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My favourite Heather Rose novel so far. While it is epic in scale and breadth, at its heart it remains the intimate story of Caroline, an intelligent, courageous woman who navigates tragedy and danger to carve out a life in 1840s Van Diemen’s Land. I ...more
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“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

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“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

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