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Wild Dark Shore

By Charlotte McConaghy
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ISBN: 9781761625671

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 03 November 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia

Audience: General / adult

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Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 1.0mm

Height: 1.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 320

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About the Author

Charlotte McConaghy is the author of the New York Times bestseller Wild Dark Shore, which won the Indie Awards Book of the Year and the Dymocks Book of the Year, was Longlisted for the Stella Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction, and was a Reese's Book Club Pick and Amazon's Best Book of the Year So Far for 2025; as well as the New York Times Bestseller Once There Were Wolves; and the international bestseller Migrations, a TIME Magazine Best Book of the Year and the Amazon Best Fiction Book of the Year for 2020. Her books are translated into more than 30 languages, and being developed for film and television. She lives in Sydney with her partner and two children.

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