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Claudia Merrill

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Hi, I‘m Claudia, an Australian author living in Vienna, Austria. My writing aims to bring mythology and folklore to life through the lens of history.

Currently, I‘m writing a novel series, with the first book set in Mesolithic Britain. In 2023, I submitted a condensed version of my manuscript to the Young Storyteller Award and won a place among the Top 20.

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The Unicorn Hunters

by Katherine Arden (Goodreads Author)

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The Wolf and the Woodsman

by Ava Reid (Goodreads Author)

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Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain

by Amy Jeffs

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“There comes a time when you must choose a path. To walk toward knowledge and truth, or to turn away toward earthly matters.”
― Claudia Merrill, The Last Oracle

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“There was no way of seeing forward, and no way back, only a trail ahead. Worn by the ancestors and those that came before. With tentative feet she would have to walk it, whether she liked it or not.”
― Claudia Merrill, The Last Oracle

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“Everything was moving. Light emanated from the smallest blade of grass to the largest trunk of a tree. Bathed in light the world seemed alive, teeming with life. She was in the stream, the stream of all things.”
― Claudia Merrill, The Last Oracle

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“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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“It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

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“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
― Emily Bronte

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“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter”
― John Keats, Ode On A Grecian Urn And Other Poems

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