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Claire Corbett is a writer. She was born in Canada and has worked in film and government policy. Her first novel, WHEN WE HAVE WINGS, was published in 2011 by Allen & Unwin and shortlisted for the 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award and the 2012 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and published overseas.

Recent fiction and essays have been published in a range of journals, including Best Australian Stories 2014 & 2015, Griffith Review, Southerly and Overland. She has written on defence and strategy for The Diplomat, The Strategist and The Monthly. Her second novel, WATCH OVER ME, is published by Allen & Unwin in May 2017.

Claire is the fiction editor of Overland Journal.

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	When We Have Wings 3.82 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2011 — 18 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
	Watch Over Me 3.61 avg rating — 108 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
	The Best Australian Stories 2015 by Amanda Lohrey (Editor), Goldie Goldbloom (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), John Alan Scott (Contributor) 3.76 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	The Best Australian Stories 2014 by Amanda Lohrey (Editor), Claire Aman, Rebekah Clarkson 3.78 avg rating — 58 ratings — published 2014 — 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
	Griffith Review 42: Once Upon a Time in Oz by Julianne Schultz (Editor), Carmel Bird (Editor), Cecilia Condon (Contributor) 4.19 avg rating — 16 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
	Overland Issue 214 Autumn by Jeff Sparrow (Goodreads Author) (editor/author), Mel Cambell, Giovanni Tiso 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2014	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
	We'll Stand In That Place and Other Stories by Michelle Cahill (Editor), Kit Scriven, Catherine Noske (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 6 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
	Piano Lessons: Approaches to the Piano (Southern Screen Classics, 1) by Felicity Coombs, Laurence Simmons, Anna Neill really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000	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
	Creative Writing Practice: Reflections on Form and Process by Debra Adelaide (Editor), Sarah Attfield (Editor), Claire Corbett (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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
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Things in Nature Merely Grow

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April 2018 Group Read - SciFi/Dystopian

Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden

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Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta

5 votes, 16.7%

Weapons of Choice by John Birmingham

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Shade's Children by Garth Nix

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Earthbound by Mark R. Healy

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Watch Over Me by Claire Corbett

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Stray by Andrea K. Höst

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The Woodlands by Lauren Nicolle Taylor

1 vote, 3.3%

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“Easy reading is damn hard writing.”
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“I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., A Man Without a Country

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“Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.”
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“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

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“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
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