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Mark Smith lives on the west coast of Victoria, Australia, He is the author of four novels: The Road To Winter, Wilder Country, Land of Fences and If Not Us (all Text Publishing). Wilder Country won the 2018 Australian Indie Book Award for YA. Mark is also an award winning writer of short fiction. He is the co-curator of Mind Went Walking, The Songs of Paul Kelly Reimagined and Into Your Arms, The Songs of Nick Cave Reimagined (both Fremantle Press). HIs first adult novel will be published by Pan Macmillan in January 2025

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	The Road to Winter (Winter, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 1,903 ratings — published 2016 — 9 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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	Land of Fences (Winter #3) 4.20 avg rating — 426 ratings — published 2019 — 4 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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	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

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I've likened getting your first novel published to being invited inside a club you've been standing outside (in the rain) for years. Suddenly the door opens and you are part of a whole new group, published authors. The first change you have to get used to is calling yourself an author, as opposed to a writer. This probably sounds a bit naff but when you've wanted to attach that title to yourself f Read more of this blog post »

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Mark Smith and 1 other person liked Bec's review of Three Boys Gone: "Really enjoyed this book and the narration was great. I got to hear Mark talk about writing this book and working at a school I could recognise many of the characters (I feel like we have have worked with the same IT guy🤭)"
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Mark Smith and 36 other people liked Mandy White (mandylovestoread)'s review of Three Boys Gone: "Wow, what an incredible book. This will easily be in my top reads for 2024. I could not stop turning the pages, and when I had to I was thinking about these characters and this story. It really got into my head,and I am still thinking about it all no" Read more of this review »
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“Hey readers and reviewers of The Road To Winter: lots of people are asking if TRTW is the first of a series. The answer is a definite YES. The second book in the Winter series will be released by Text publishing in May 2017. The adventures of Finn and Kas continue......”
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