Fin J. Ross Fin J. Ross i(8310269 works by)
Gender: Female
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Fin J. Ross started her working life as a cadet journalist on a country newspaper, followed by 10 years on suburban papers. She is the owner of a boarding cattery on the Gippsland Lakes.

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y separately published work icon Billings Better Bookstore and Brasserie Melbourne : Clan Destine Press , 2020 19659793 2020 single work novel

'Young Fidelia Knight arrives in Melbourne in 1874, alone except for her treasured companion, Samuel Johnson; well, half of him.

'To escape servitude, Fidelia hides each night in the renowned Coles Book Arcade. She loves words, you see, and wants to know them all.

'What she overhears in Coles sets her on a path that will change the lives of everyone she meets, starting with Jasper Godwin, the hopelessly underqualified manager of the new Billings Better Bookstore.

'Fidelia’s thirst for knowledge is contagious. She tutors two orphan boys and two illiterate women, inspiring them to unlock their creativity; and her exploration of colonial Melbourne takes her to some unusual places.

'Nothing daunts this diminutive genius, except the mystery of what really happened to her parents on the voyage from England, in Fin J. Ross' Billings Better Bookstore & Brasserie. With illustrations by award-winning author-illustrator, Judith Rossell.'

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2021 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Young Adult Book
Her Other Life 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Timber! : Thirty-seven Award-winning Stories from the Stringybark Short Story Awards 2018;
2018 highly commended The Stringybark Short Story Award
y separately published work icon Murder in the Family : 15 True Australian Accounts of Domestic Tragedy Victoria : Five Mile Press , 2014 8630267 2014 selected work biography crime

'Murder in the Family explores fifteen cases where families have been torn apart by murder. The saddest thing about the stories in this book is the fact that the perpetrators and victims once loved each other…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2015 longlisted Davitt Award — Best True Crime Book
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