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Jane Borodale

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Jane Borodale has a postgraduate degree in site-specific sculpture from Wimbledon School of Art. She has written and exhibited work for a variety of sites, including the Foundling Museum in London and the Wordsworth Trust, Cumbria. She was recently Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in Sussex, and lives in the Westcountry with her husband, poet Sean Borodale, and their two children.

Her first novel THE BOOK OF FIRES is being translated into many languages and was shortlisted for the 2010 Orange Award for New Writers

Her new novel THE KNOT is about the forgotten botanist Henry Lyte and his translation of an influential 16th-century herbal.

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Jane Borodale's Books

Average rating: 3.59 · 988 ratings · 222 reviews · 4 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Book Of Fires 3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 973 ratings — published 2009 — 16 editions	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 Knot 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	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
	Visitor: A Fiction In Four Strands 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	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
	Historical Fiction Writing: A Practical Guide And Tool Kit by Myfanwy Cook, Malcolm Archibald (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Carole Baldock (Contributor) 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	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 only certain way to forge new understanding it to carry out investigations for oneself.”
― Jane Borodale, The Book Of Fires

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“What a waste of beauty, what a waste of knowledge a sudden death can inflict, like spilling something vital away into dry soil.”
― Jane Borodale, The Book Of Fires

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“Nothing good was learnt too swiftly. Knowledge should be a purposeful accumulance of observed experience, applied and tested to the full.”
― Jane Borodale, The Book Of Fires

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