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Michelle Scott Tucker
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Australian biographer, writer, reader, gardener, muse, dirty lefty and terrible cook. Working on Louisa Lawson biography. SPIRIT OF THE CROCODILE (A&U, 2025), SO FAR, SO GOOD (Pantera 2022), ELIZABETH MACARTHUR (Text 2018). www.MichelleScottTucker.com
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 20d
What an honour. Winners announced on Friday.
For more info about the book, and about the Torres Strait, and about our collaboration, try my website - deets in the bio.
@allenandunwin.bsky.social
#middlegrade #amreading #AaronFaAoso
Cover of a book called Spirit of the Crocodile, by Aaron Fa'Aoso and Michelle Scott Tucker with Lyn White. Children sitting on a jetty are silhouetted in the foreground, a tropical scene of sunset, water, moon and looming crocodile are behind them. Typically traditional Torres Strait patterning used throughout. Beside the book cover is a yellow promotional tile proclaiming it a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards.
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 2d
Come & hear me talk! Discussing how historians deviate from well-trodden paths of the past. How do they reveal larger stories that've been ignored? And how do historians correct the record? State Library NSW, Wed 26 Nov, 6pm. Free event but bookings essential.
www.sl.nsw.gov.au/events/fello...
Fellows’ Forum: Telling histories already told
Hear from three of the Library’s Fellows about their approach to researching and telling histories that many people assume they’ve already heard.
www.sl.nsw.gov.au
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 6d
So infuriating
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 6d
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Felicity Hannah @felicityhannah.bsky.social · 6d
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 7d
The other day I listened to this terrific - and terrifically interesting - interview with Australian biographer @nathanhobby.bsky.social

www.biographersinconversation.com/s03e05-natha...
Nathan Hobby - The Red Witch - Biographers in Conversation
In this episode of Biographers in Conversation, Dr Nathan Hobby chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about his choices while crafting The Red Witch: A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard, a tower...
www.biographersinconversation.com
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 8d
Ha! I can hold a grudge forever but I don’t usually stay angry for long 🤣🤣
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 9d
Today’s desk posy
Blue-flowering rosemary stems and pear blossom in a small blue ceramic vase.
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 9d
Better!! 🙏🏻
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 9d
Thanks so much Annie, that’s marvellous
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 10d
Thanks so much 🙏🏻. Working with Louisa is actually quite a blast.
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 10d
The housework thing comes up over and over again 🙄
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 10d
She’s just amazing
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 10d
People, I’ve emerged from the archives angry & dismayed. Here’s some examples demonstrating the deliberate exclusion & suppression of Louisa Lawson (1848-1920), the subject of my next biography. And oh boy, there are so many more. michellescotttucker.com/angry-and-di...
#AustralianHistory #Biography
Angry and dismayed | Michelle Scott Tucker
Biographer Michelle Scott Tucker discusses how erasure and vilification shaped Louisa Lawson’s life and her subsequent legacy.
michellescotttucker.com
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 14d
Hello Brisvegas. Good to see you again.
City view and sunset sky from my balcony
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 16d
I’m so sorry. It’s heartbreaking to lose them.
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 16d
Today’s desk posy
Multiple sprays of white blossom (ornamental pear) in a clear vase on a brown table, bookshelves in background. Close up of white blossom flowers.
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 17d
He was a rescue but we believe he’s a wire-haired German Pointer.
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 17d
He was a rescue but we believe he’s a wire-haired German Pointer.
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 18d
Blue says: Happy equinox to all who celebrate!
(We call this pic “Right turn indicator activated”)
A dog called Blue, an extraordinarily handsome German pointer, is running across a grassy oval straight to camera. He is captured mid-stride with his right ear flying out sideways.
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 20d
What an honour. Winners announced on Friday.
For more info about the book, and about the Torres Strait, and about our collaboration, try my website - deets in the bio.
@allenandunwin.bsky.social
#middlegrade #amreading #AaronFaAoso
Cover of a book called Spirit of the Crocodile, by Aaron Fa'Aoso and Michelle Scott Tucker with Lyn White. Children sitting on a jetty are silhouetted in the foreground, a tropical scene of sunset, water, moon and looming crocodile are behind them. Typically traditional Torres Strait patterning used throughout. Beside the book cover is a yellow promotional tile proclaiming it a finalist in the Queensland Literary Awards.
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 21d
Sounds wonderful. Straight to the TBR list it goes!
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 23d
Thank you! I’ll look them out.
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 23d
Hard agree. The original wizard school is definitely the best.
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 23d
A book called Tales from Earthsea is a collection of short stories about Earthsea. Le Guin recommended reading it after reading the initial quartet, and before the final The Other Wind. It might contain those stories?
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 23d
Prompted by an excellent recent @backlisted.bsky.social podcast episode about The Tombs of Atuan, I’m rereading all the Earthsea books. Loved them as a child, now finding them even richer as an adult. Ursula Le Guin is incomparable.
Book called Tge Books of Earthsea. Cover featuring a rusty orange dragon
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Michelle Scott Tucker @mst-writes.bsky.social · 24d
🙏🏻💕