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Gina Wilkinson

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Fiction, Suspense, Memoir

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I'm a former foreign correspondent, radio journalist, and documentary maker for the BBC, NPR, the ABC, and other well-known public broadcasters, who decided to trade my flak jacket and reporter's notebook for an author's pen (or keyboard!).

I've been a nomad from the age of six-months, when my parents packed me and our Siamese cat into an old Renault and set off for a remote gold-mining town in Australia's Nullarbor desert. As an adult, I spent three decades living and working in some of the world's most intriguing, and dangerous, places. From Baghdad, to Bangkok, to New York. From Brazil to Canada to Sri Lanka. Recently I returned to Australia, to the wonderful city of Melbourne. When I'm not writing novels, I work in international developm ...more

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Gotta say, I'm feeling a lot of mixed emotions right now...if you're not Australian you may not have heard of the Australian Women's Weekly, but it holds a unique place in our culture. It's by far the most widely read magazine Down Under. For 80 years it's been telling the stories of Australian women, and it holds particular significance for women of my mother's generation. My lovely mum passed aw

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Gina Wilkinson wrote a new blog post A Bittersweet Moment... Gotta say, I'm feeling a lot of mixed emotions right now...if you're not Australian you may not have heard of the Australian Women's Weekly, but it ho Read more of this blog post »
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Gina Wilkinson made a comment in the group Middle East/North African Lit — The Stationery Shop - Buddy Read? topic " Melanie wrote: "Walter was a nice guy, but just not interesting. I appreciate the representation of different kinds of love and relationships (that ca ...more "
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Gina Wilkinson and 1 other person liked Tamara Agha-Jaffar's blog post: 2020 Reading Challenge--December Update "It’s been such a difficult year in so many ways. In spite of that--or, maybe, because of it--it’s been a great year for reading and writing. I was introduced to some wonderful, new-to-me authors. And in addition to working on my own novels, I wrot..." Read more of this blog post »
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I enjoyed The Stationery Shop with its sights, sounds and smells from Iran during the final tumultuous years of the Shah. It was an easy read, and I was able to complete it in one weekend. I'm not a huge reader of romance novels, so I was naturally m ...more
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Gina Wilkinson and 1 other person liked Virginia Campbell's review of Tidewater Bride: "Author Laura Frantz is a superb storyteller, blending historical fact and real lives with her inspired wordsmithery, compelling characters, and involving story lines--all of which are shaped by her great love of subject. Throughout all of her stories" Read more of this review »
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Gina Wilkinson answered Shirley Goldberg's question: Do you often use events from your own life in your books? And what a life you've led! You'll have material for books forever. Can't wait to read the Apricot book. Hi Shirley! Thanks very much for your question. This is my first novel, but in 2007 I wrote 'Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sky' which was 100 percent taken from my real life (it was published in my home country of Australia). In comparison, the See Full Answer
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I enjoyed this book very much for its insight into the conflict in Croatia. My maternal grandparents emigrated from Croatia to Australia during a period when there was a lot of discrimination against Croats, Italians, Greeks and others immigrants fro ...more
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