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Shortlisted for the Kitschies Red Tentacle for Best Novel 'This strange story of love and loneliness, which explores how we all long to belong, is simply wonderful.' -Daily Mail 'Absorbing . full of deep currents and lurking fears.' -Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author of The Children of Time When George Hills was pulled from the wreck of the steamship Admella, he carried with him memories of a disaster that claimed the lives of almost every other soul on board. Almost every other soul. Because as . Read More. Shortlisted for the Kitschies Red Tentacle for Best Novel 'This strange story of love and loneliness, which explores how we all long to belong, is simply wonderful.' -Daily Mail 'Absorbing . full of deep currents and lurking fears.' -Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C Clarke Award-winning author of The Children of Time When George Hills was pulled from the wreck of the steamship Admella, he carried with him memories of a disaster that claimed the lives of almost every other soul on board. Almost every other soul. Because as he clung onto the wreck, George wasn't alone: someone else - or something else - kept George warm and bound him to life. Why didn't he die, as so many others did, half-submerged in the freezing Southern Ocean? And what happened to his fellow survivor, the woman who seemed to vanish into thin air? George will live out the rest of his life obsessed with finding the answers to these questions. He will marry, father children, but never quite let go of the feeling that something else came out of the ocean that day, something that has been watching him ever since. The question of what this creature might want from him - his life? His first-born? To simply return home? - will pursue him, and call him back to the ocean again. Blending genres, perspectives and worlds, Jane Rawson's From the Wreck - winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel - is a chilling and tender story about how fiercely we cling to life, and how no-one can survive on their own. Read Less. Follow me on Twitter. I grew up in Canberra and then spent quite a few years dawdling around the streets of San Francisco, Prague and Phnom Penh. These days I live in Tasmania’s Huon Valley. Formerly editor of the environment and energy section of The Conversation, an independent news website, I now work for a bureaucracy, writing about reducing household energy use. I like cats, quiet, minimal capitalisation, and finding out that everything is going to be OK. This site includes more information about my books, as well as an (infrequently updated) blog that is mostly about reading and writing. For my olden-days jokes about travel, please see Ointment for Itchy Feet. On twitter I go by @frippet. 20 thoughts on “ ” You may not remember me well, but when I found your name and picture on a website I couldn’t help . not writing to you to say hi. My name is Akiko Takahashi, I live in Tokyo Japan and I was once your classmate at Weetangera Primary School, that is 35 years ago. I stayed in your country for 4 years, and I have been back to my country sice then. I am married and live with my husband and a daughter, who is now in her 1st year at junior highschool. So you have become a writer! This is really great! What I remember about you is that you always had some books with you, whereever you go and that you were a good friend with Sally Button – do you still contact her? When I think of the days I spent in your country, I am grateful to you all for being a good friend to me. I enjoyed my life in Australia. Sorry about my poor English, but if I get a chance I’d like to try reading some of your books! Love from Akiko. Hi Jane, I was listening to ABC radio – Books and Arts – yesterday, as I was slicing apples to go in the dehydrator. I thought it must be you and figured I’d Google and double check. Funny that the first message I come across on this page is someone else, from your youth in Canberra, saying hello. Great to learn you’re writing. Will see if your in my local Braidwood library. Cheers Annie. Cute bunnies! How nice to hear from you. Drop me a line through the ‘contact’ page if you like. Jane, My name is David McLellan. My great grandfather,also David McLellan came to Australia during the 1850’s as part of the crew of the ship Admella. He spent some time working on her around the coast of Victoria and South Australia before deciding to walk from Adelaide to the Victorian goldfields. He didn’t make it that far but after some years working as a shepherd took up land in Drik Drik and named his property Admella in memory of the ship he left just prior to its shipwreck. He later named his house in Mt. Gambier, Admella. I saw your book listed by Angus & Robertson and only clicked on further details as my sister’s name is Elaine Rawson. That’s a bit creepy!! FROM THE WRECK by Jane Rawson, Review: Utterly mesmerising. Jane Rawson’s From the Wreck was shortlisted for the 2017 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, won the 2017 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Novel and is now longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award 2018. From the Wreck Synopsis : From the Wreck tells the remarkable story of George Hills, who survived the sinking of the steamship Admella off the South Australian coast in 1859. Haunted by his memories and the disappearance of a fellow survivor, George’s fractured life is intertwined with that of a woman from another dimension, seeking refuge on Earth. This is a novel imbued with beauty and feeling, filled both with existential loneliness and a deep awareness that all life is interdependent. ‘It’s hard to find the right words to praise this novel. I think we need a whole new critical vocabulary to be invented. Rawson recreates a vanished historical world with utterly convincing characters as well as inhabits the mind of a cephalopod alien and make us feel, in both cases, yes, that’s exactly how it is. Jane Rawson’s writing is mysterious, chilling and tender. The book is a sort of miracle.’ — Lian Hearn. Genre: Literature, Mystery, Sci-Fi-Fantasy, Drama, Historical. Disclosure: If you click a link in this post and make a purchase, I may earn a small commission. BOOK REVIEW. From the Wreck ‘s synopsis has to rate as one of the most unusual I have come across in the literary genre. But Rawson does more than ‘pull-off’ this lofty creative and artistic challenge… in her deft hands this concept soars. From the Wreck ‘s building blocks, alternating first-person character narratives, are fascinating. And none more so than that of the life-form from another dimension: So many creatures were bigger than we were, and so many had more teeth. But we were built for thinking, for making, for talking. We could squeeze into any space. We could shift into any shape. And that was who we were and what we did: we didn’t fight the others to be bigger, fiercer, more toothy. We were evidently us. For me the mark of great literature is its capacity to expose audiences to viewpoints different from their own, and in so doing broaden their thinking. Both the originality and credibility of the different perspectives in this novel — from shipwreck survivor, to inquisitive child, to shape- shifting alien — and the intimacy cultivated between character and reader is truly impressive. Historical setting. The historical setting of late 19th century South Australia is beautifully rendered. The spirit of change and endeavour amongst the largely migrant population and burgeoning scientific thought at that time is the microcosm from which Rawson explores a wealth of universal themes. Of these, most memorable for me was the interdependence of all life, and the power of not just understanding but accepting and embracing the differences of others and our true selves. There were creatures — tiny, so many — a swarm of them struggling and fighting and out of them came babies and blood and all the heat of that one warm star turn to grass and to muscle and to life. Teeth tearing throats. The guts of a rabbit are the eyes of a newborn dingo pup are the food that fuels the towering termite nest are the shade where a small skink rests.