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Charlotte McConaghy

Book Review: Wild Dark Shore by Charlotte McConaghy

March 4, 2025 by Midge Raymond

In Charlotte McConaghy’s lovely new novel, Wild Dark Shore, Dominic Salt and his family—eighteen-year-old Raff, seventeen-year-old Fen, and nine-year-old Orly—moved to Shearwater Island eight years earlier, when Dominic “needed a …

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Categories Animals, Anthropocene, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Eco-mystery, Ecology, Fiction, Macmillan, Oceans, Plants

2022 Year in Review: Most popular books and posts

December 10, 2022 by John Yunker

When I look at visitor stats for the past year, EcoLit Books has seen a steady increase in the number of daily visitors. We now average just over 200 unique …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Anthropocene, Birds, Book Publishers, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Conservation, Ecology, Fiction, Nonfiction, Topics

Interview with author Charlotte McConaghy

December 30, 2024August 3, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Charlotte McConaghy, an Australian writer living in Sydney, is the author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves. Here, she chats with EcoLit Books about her new novel about the …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Conservation, For Writers, Q&A, Rewilding, Wolves

Book Review: Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

August 3, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Charlotte McConaghy’s Once There Were Wolves shares much in common with her previous novel, Migrations — the journey of a troubled young woman hoping to save the animals she loves, …

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Categories Animal Behavior, Animal Rights, Book Reviews, Conservation, Endangered Species, Fiction, Wolves

Book Review: MIGRATIONS by Charlotte McConaghy

September 16, 2024January 11, 2021 by Midge Raymond

Migrations is a stunningly beautiful novel about a woman who has always been running—from her childhood, her mistakes, her memories—and this time, she’s traveling from Greenland to Antarctica, following the …

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Categories Anthropocene, Birds, Book Reviews, Climate Change, Eco-mystery, Endangered Species, Fiction, Oceans

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