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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: 4.06 · 1,117 ratings · 198 reviews · 8 distinct works • Similar authors

	Cold Coast 4.25 avg rating — 632 ratings — published 2021 — 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 — 297 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 3.76 avg rating — 86 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) 4.10 avg rating — 29 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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My favourite Katherine Scholes so far. This story evokes the wilds of Tanzania and the natural beauty of Tasmania, dual backdrops for Sara’s heart aching story. I loved seeing Sara grow as an individual, pushing back against 1960s expectations of a w ...more
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I so loved this story. I was anticipating something quite different, along the lines of the documentary The Octopus Teacher -- which ultimately, has parallels, given the main character Lucy comes to see and value octopuses through a deep, unanticipat ...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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