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Robyn Mundy
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Cold Coast, by Robyn Mundy
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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Cold Coast
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2021
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Wildlight
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2016
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The Nature of Ice
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2009
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The Best Australian Stories 2013
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2013
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La Femme au renard bleu
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2024
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Epic Adventure: Epic Voyages
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2010
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The Sky Falls Down: An Anthology of Loss
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2019
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Eroi del mare. I più grandi navigatori della storia
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| Melissa Manning is an author I totally admire. Her ability to fully inhabit the characters of Caro, Danny and their world, is a rare gift. I read this novel in two days, forgot to breathe through parts of it. A raw, bittersweet experience as we see D ...more | |
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| This heartbreaking, tender story blew me away. A wonderful cast of characters. The best kind of historical fiction where you know the rigorous amount of research at its foundation, in the hands of an author that never lets her expert knowledge overwh ...more | |
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"I have been waiting, not-so-patiently, for a new novel from one of my favourite Australian authors, Amanda Curtin and here it is at last. Six Days is a poignant novel about a homeless man in Paris, but it's a story that made me think about homelessne"
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| This story touched me deeply. The character of Chris, drawn with tenderness and humility, a man living with HIV in 1993 Sydney, is at the centre of a world where his friends — his tribe — once free to choose rampant sex, to seek out belonging and lov ...more | |
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| I have a great love of Scandinavian fiction and while this was beautifully crafted, I found it consistently sombre and never felt that great readerly urge to return to it, except perhaps to see through the last 30 pages. | |
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Thank you Subra, for this lovely review. I also love Tromsø’s polar museum! 🙏
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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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| Aussie Readers: Merry Month of May Challenge | 221 | 245 | Jun 01, 2016 11:11PM | |
| Aussie Readers: Identify in July - Reduce that TBR! | 406 | 192 | Aug 07, 2016 08:20PM | |
| Australian Women ...: Carolyn - 50 AWWs in 2016 | 80 | 44 | Dec 22, 2016 08:47PM | |
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Books read in 2016 - Target 50,000
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| Aussie Readers: Aussie Author Challenge - 1st January-31st December 2016 | 876 | 414 | Jan 23, 2017 12:41AM | |
| Aussie Readers: OCTOBER Challenge– Otherwise October | 272 | 229 | Nov 11, 2017 11:18PM | |
| Aussie Readers: **Spring Reading Challenge - 1st September - 30th November 2018** | 376 | 239 | Dec 10, 2018 09:19PM |
“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Essays of Three Decades
― Essays of Three Decades
“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.”
― Possession
― Possession