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Deborah’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Deborah’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Deborah Sheldon’s Followers (281)
15,399 books
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Deborah Sheldon
Goodreads Author
Born
in Melbourne, Australia
Website
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Member Since
September 2009
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/deborahsheldon
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Cretaceous Canyon
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Devil Dragon
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2016
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2 editions
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Thylacines
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2018
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2 editions
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Dark Waters
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2014
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8 editions
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Killer Creatures Down Under: Horror Stories With Bite
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2023
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3 editions
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Spawn: Weird Horror Tales About Pregnancy, Birth and Babies
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Man-Beast
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Body Farm Z
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Perfect Little Stitches: and Other Stories
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2017
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4 editions
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Ronnie and Rita
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2013
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2 editions
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April E-book Giveaway - CONTRITION
In collaboration with The Horror Tree, I'm giving away 12 of my published titles over the 12 months of 2026. Why? To celebrate my 40th year as a professional writer!
For April, The Horror Tree is giving away TEN e-book copies of my noir-horror novel, Contrition, which was shortlisted for the Australian Shadows "Best Novel" Award.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
The giveaway will run from Mon Read more of this blog post »
For April, The Horror Tree is giving away TEN e-book copies of my noir-horror novel, Contrition, which was shortlisted for the Australian Shadows "Best Novel" Award.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
The giveaway will run from Mon Read more of this blog post »
Deborah’s Recent Updates
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| Going in, I thought this book would comprise two novels. Wrong! Instead, it's two collections of loosely-associated short stories and poetry with anthropomorphic animals as a central device. I enjoyed every tale! Kipling has such masterful control of ...more | |
"Collection of wonderful stories involving animals, not all involving Mowgli, nor indeed set in the jungle. We wander as far as the Arctic to witness a seal trying to find an escape from the clubbing humans and then back to India for Riki Tiki Tavi, a"
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"I loved this. Book Mowgli is much tougher and forward thinking than Disney's Mowgli... They did Kaa sooooo dirty in the Disney adaptation too!
I liked the White Seal story and Rikki Tikki Tavi, but not so much Toomai of the Elephants and Her Majesty's" Read more of this review » |
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"Three and a half stars.
Well, this was kind of a pleasant surprise. I expected absolutely nothing from this book. Instead I found a couple of stories exploring the eternal question of what is good and what is evil. The Jungle Books have been on my shel" Read more of this review » |
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| Going in, I thought this book would comprise two novels. Wrong! Instead, it's two collections of loosely-associated short stories and poetry with anthropomorphic animals as a central device. I enjoyed every tale! Kipling has such masterful control of ...more | |
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| I first tried to read this collection in 2011. Now, as I turned the pages in 2026, I remembered exactly what had bothered me... There's no depth. Every story has the same format; the protagonist wants something and, in a predictable twist, he/she doe ...more | |
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Deborah Sheldon
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| The book didn't move me, but that's my fault; I probably should have read this first when I was a child, like almost everybody else, so I could've felt nostalgia. My main issues... Since the dialogue sounded exactly like Englanders, why did the rabbi ...more | |
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Deborah Sheldon
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| The book didn't move me, but that's my fault; I probably should have read this first when I was a child, like almost everybody else, so I could've felt nostalgia. My main issues... Since the dialogue sounded exactly like Englanders, why did the rabbi ...more | |
Topics Mentioning This Author
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Horror Aficionados :
June 2018 Group Read Nominations
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102 | 253 | May 18, 2018 01:04PM | |
| Around the World ...: Bianca's 2018 & 2019 (Tourist) | 29 | 93 | Jun 24, 2019 07:36PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : What Have You Read - 2020 | 629 | 396 | Jan 01, 2021 01:34PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : Track the Books You've Read: 2020 | 40 | 425 | Jan 27, 2021 02:32PM | |
| Horror Aficionados : 2021-Track the Books You've Read! | 41 | 307 | Jan 01, 2022 06:55AM | |
| Horror Aficionados : ABC Words Associated with Horror (including well-known authors' last names and famous characters) | 1537 | 445 | May 16, 2022 07:44AM | |
| Crazy Challenge C...: June 2022 Ugly Once a Month (Pretty the Rest of the Time) | 66 | 39 | Aug 12, 2022 07:59AM | |
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Crazy Challenge C...:
Murder Mystery
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1639 | 188 | Sep 25, 2022 09:42PM |
“There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.”
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“Chance favors the prepared mind.”
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“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
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“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
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