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Gwen Wilson is a Wollongong-based author and blogger who launched her writing career following her retirement from international trade and supply chain management. Her memoir, I Belong to No One, was published by Hachette Australia and Orion UK in 2015. Louisa, partly inspired by research into her great-grandmother, and its forthcoming sequel, Florence & Lucy, are her first historical novels. Gwen is a member of the Society of Women Writers NSW, Australian Society of Authors, and the South Coast Writers Centre. In November 2022 Gwen was a founding member of, and participant in, the inaugural Adoption Literary Festival.

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Gwen Wilson Haha - sorry, no - not my genre at all. Although - I did write a blog post about a horror drive home that started with "It was a dark and stormy night…moreHaha - sorry, no - not my genre at all. Although - I did write a blog post about a horror drive home that started with "It was a dark and stormy night. Whoops! Correction. Last night was a dark and stormy night." You can read the whole story here https://garrulousgwendoline.wordpress...(less)
Gwen Wilson Thank you for your question. My reading list is so eclectic, and often related to research for my current manuscript. Right this moment though, for en…moreThank you for your question. My reading list is so eclectic, and often related to research for my current manuscript. Right this moment though, for entertainment, I am reading "Poking Seaweed With A Stick And Running Away From The Smell" by Alison Whitelock. It's a quirky memoir set in Scotland. I just finished "The War Bride" by Pamela Hart. Set in Sydney post WWI, it tells the tale of an Englishwoman who married an Australian soldier, but when she arrives to her new life in Australia, he is not at the dock to meet her! I use Goodreads as a handy tool for recording all the books I mean to read. (less)
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I Belong to No One: One wom...

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Louisa: an Historical Novel

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Celebrating Louisa: My Journey as a Historical Author

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I heard Seana Smith on the radio about a year back. She sounded interesting, and I bought the book for my girlfriend, even though she is not a drinker, as an example of a memoir we could both learn something from. In time, the book found its way back ...more
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Mother Shadow by Cynthia Banham
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I responded to Mother Shadow as someone who has also excavated memory, the meaning of motherhood, and the generational consequences of shame and secrecy - in my case with a particular focus on illegitimacy and adoption as it was practised in mid-20th ...more
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I responded to Mother Shadow as someone who has also excavated memory, the meaning of motherhood, and the generational consequences of shame and secrecy - in my case with a particular focus on illegitimacy and adoption as it was practised in mid-20th ...more
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Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends by Catie Gilchrist
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You have to admire the research behind this book. Possibly a spin-off from a PhD. Catie Gilchrist scours the records of Henry Shiell, who was the Sydney City Coroner from 1866 to 1889, and breaks the result into categories such as murder, manslaughte ...more
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A gripping police procedural with the added enjoyment of featuring inner Western Sydney places I know so well. The characters intertwine in a complex web of greed and deceit - which, coincidentally, find echoes in the current investigation into the i ...more
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