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Dr Helen Edwards, Psych PhD, Australian Author & Speaker
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Award-winning Australian Author on Kaurna Land.
🪶SA Literary Fellow 2025
✨️The Rebels of Mount Buffalo✨️Legend of The Lighthouse Moon✨️On Gallant Wings ✨️The Disappearing Circus 7/25 with Kate Gordon
🪶Nature, Magic & History
www.helenedwardswrites.com
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Looking forward to joining family & friends this afternoon at The Gums Tranmere to celebrate the launch of On Gallant Wings. Drop-in between 2-4pm. I'll be doing a reading & talk around 2.30 if you would like to hear that. Don't forget your chair, or picnic blanket. Books for sale! #Adelaide
Helen wears a black and white cardigan. She's smiling and looking at the camera as she signs a book. A soft toy pigeon watches her.
April 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Wonderful day across #Adelaide signing copies of On Gallant Wings at Dymocks Hyde Park, Mostly Books, Shakespeares bookshop & Matilda Bookshop. Bumped into gorgeous Sam Ellen Bound signing copies of her stunning new book in Mostly Books! Thank you booksellers 🙏 #Australianbooks #AustralianAuthors
April 9, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Come with me on my outing to sign copies of On Gallant Wings in two of my favourite local #Adelaide bookshops Dillons on The Parade & Dymocks Rundle Mall. Signed copies of both Legends of the Lighthouse Moon and On Gallant Wings now available at both shops.
#Australianbooks #AustralianAuthors
April 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Thanks for the shelfie Rachel Jackson On Gallant Wings in the wild at Sydney airport! Hopefully they'll fly off the shelves 🤣

#AustralianAuthors #Australianbooks ##LoveozKidLit #OzKidLit #loveozmg #WW11 #WWIIAustralia
April 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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On Gallant Wings has arrived.
A sweeping WWII adventure about family, courage and knowing when to break the rules that shines a light on many little-known aspects of the war's impact on Australians at home.
Available in all good bookshops in your town and online.
It's time soar 🕊
#Authors #Books
April 8, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Legend of the Lighthouse Moon has come in FIRST place in the Forevability awards Category two, with the amazing Tania Ingram and Kate Buffay Jr. in second and third places! What a list to be on. I am very grateful to everyone at Forevability for creating these awards to champion diverse books
April 8, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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So nice to discover Legend of the Lighthouse Moon is a book marked with a 'We Love' sticker on the Harry Hartog website this afternoon when planning my bookshop visits in Canberra 🙏❤️
#KangarooIsland #SealBay #CapeWilloughby #SeaLions #selkies #oceanconservation #type1diabetes
March 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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On Gallant Wings includes censored letters which show handwriting from the 1940's. Where deemed necessary sections of letters were blacked out or had pieces cut from them. I'm sharing the full letters over coming weeks. Here's the first two www.helenedwardswrites.com/on-gallant-w...
#Kidlit #WWII
March 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Looking forward to presenting at the National Education Summit Diverse Learners Symposium in #Melbourne on 28th August

#DiverseBooks #OwnVoices #Australianbooks #AustralianSchools #neurodiversity
February 6, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Sitting at Lake Boga as the sun comes up, reading the final manuscript of On Gallant Wings...it's a surreal feeling to be here, where a large part of Ava’s story takes place, immersed within her world...

Tonight, I'll speaking beneath the wings of a Catalina Flying Boat. Very grateful for this life
January 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Getting ready to put together advance reader packs for On Gallant Wings 😊😊

#LoveOzMG #LoveozKidLit #OzKidLit #WWIIAustralia #catalinaflyingboat #LakeBoga #Swanhill #BombingofDarwin #Darwin #waranimals #WarPigeons #pigeonlove
January 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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What an incredibly special review of Legend of the Lighthouse Moon by Ashleigh at The Book Muse! Ashleigh's reviews are always detailed, thoughtful & insightful. This made me cry, as it so perfectly understands all of the different threads I was trying to convey
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January 21, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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Teachers & librarians preparing to go back to classrooms for 2025, Legend of the Lighthouse Moon cuts across many aspects of the Australian Curriculum. Extensive Teaching Resources are available via my website. Head to www.helenedwardswrites.com and the Teaching Notes page #Australianschools
January 16, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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On Gallant Wings is named for the animals & humans who served in WWII. In particular, the 13,500 pigeons donated to create the Corp of Signals Pigeon Service & the women who served in the WAAAF. Two Australian pigeons won a Dickin Medal for bravery. Pre-order www.helenedwardswrites.com
January 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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My stamp for signing On Gallant Wings arrived! It's so cute! 😍 #Authors #KidLit #AustralianAuthors #LoveOzMG #LoveozKidLit #OzKidLit ##WarPigeons #pigeonlove #WWIInovel
A cream background with a single shelf. A poster is framed in wood. It has a picture of a pigeon with a hat. It says, From the Library of Helen Edwards
January 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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On Gallant Wings will soon be flying into bookshops. Already available for pre-order! Here's the first events. Canberra is open for bookings. Head to The Book Cow - Kingston for links. Save the dates for Adelaide and Catalina Flying Boat Museum launches!

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January 8, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Such a wonderful day at TownsvilleCity Library yesterday running workshops. Incredible stories were created, lots of bright minds, a myriad of ideas. Back again today. Love your libraries #libraries #librarylove #authors #kidlit #Australianbooks
January 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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With the cover out in the wild, here's a book trailer I made for On Gallant Wings! What do you think?
Sound on for full effect!
Pre-orders now open! www.helenedwardswrites.com
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#OnGallantWings #WWIIAustralia #Darwin #waranimals #WarPigeons #authors #readaustralian #AustralianAuthors
January 4, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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I'm delighted to share the cover for On Gallant Wings out 2nd April with Riveted Press. Cover art by Tamlyn Teow. It's a sweeping WWII adventure about family, courage & knowing when to break the rules, that shines a light on many little-known aspects of the war's impact on Australians at home
January 3, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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I'm packed and ready to fly to #Townsville on Monday to run workshops at the library. There are two different workshops: Seeking Stories, Crafting Characters and Weaving Nature, Magic & History in Stories. FREE, but bookings essential via whatson.townsville.qld.gov.au/events/cityl...
January 2, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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On Gallant Wings is coming out 3 months today. Cover reveal & pre-orders coming soon! It's a sweeping WWII adventure about family, courage, and knowing when to break the rules, that shines a light on many little-known aspects of the war's impact on Australians at home.
Prepare for take-off!
#Books
January 1, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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As dawn rises on 2025, be more canine. Take time to notice the scents around you. Linger, ramble, run headlong for the joy of it. Find your friends. Work hard. Rest gently. Devour food with wild abandon. Roll on the grass. Play lots. Love deep. Be loyal. Be kind. Be you #happynewyear #mindfulness
December 31, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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Thank you to Novel Insight for a fabulous interview! Read about my inspiration behind Legend of the Lighthouse Moon, the experience of drawing on my diagnosis of type 1 diabetes, and the challenges of writing such a complex story, including history & selkies!
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December 2, 2024 at 7:30 PM
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Hey you, I've got a brilliant idea for Christmas! Buy books by local authors! The Rebels of Mount Buffalo & Legend of the Lighthouse Moon are available in my online shop www.helenedwardswrites.com
They'll come signed & with a gorgeous bookmark! #AusLit #LoveOzMG #Books
#Australianbooks
November 24, 2024 at 8:02 PM
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Signing Legend of the Lighthouse Moon at the gorgeous Peggi Williams Bookshop at #Walkerville on this very hot morning! #Adelaide people, there are now signed copies scattered across most bookshops in our beautiful city. An independent bookshop is the perfect place to do your Christmas shopping 😍
November 21, 2024 at 1:35 AM