Claire van Ryn

1 month ago | betterreading.com.au | Claire van Ryn

Saskia Honeyman would look back on her mother’s death and see that it had the cadence of an exquisitely orchestrated sonata. The indomitable Kiki, as everyone called her, even her three adult children, had a stroke on the first Tuesday of December, as she sat beneath a boab tree with a cluster of women she affectionately called the Yawuru girls.

May 30, 2024 | goodreadingmagazine.com.au | Victoria Shepherd |Claire van Ryn

KellieLibrary CoordinatorWhat are you reading now? A History of Delusions by Victoria ShepherdWhy did you choose this book? When I visit my daughter in Sydney our first stop is Books Kinokuniya, which is an amazing bookstore opposite the Queen Victoria Building in the CBD. At Kinokuniya I like to make the most of the huge selection of books by choosing something different that I would not find locally. What’s it about?

Jul 22, 2023 | smh.com.au | Claire van Ryn

After a few weeks in Victoria, we headed west along the Great Ocean Road. We set the kids up with their school work in Barossa Valley wineries while we sampled the offerings. I attended the Adelaide Writers' Festival and left armed with encouragement from Charlotte Wood and Emily Bitto. "For Claire in solidarity! Keep writing!" Wood had scribbled in the front of her book The Luminous Solution.

Jul 21, 2023 | adelaidenow.com.au | Claire van Ryn

“Slowing means turning the volume down in my head and simplifying my life,” says author Claire van Ryn, whose debut novel, The Secrets of the Huon Wren, is set in her native Tasmania. Last year, Claire, her husband and their two kids set off on a lap of Australia to experience the world at a more gentle pace. “The way we love to travel is to do less for longer. That has meant that we can experience a place much more deeply,” she says. “When you travel, you’re immediately restricted.

Jul 21, 2023 | escape.com.au | Claire van Ryn

“Slowing means turning the volume down in my head and simplifying my life,” says author Claire van Ryn, whose debut novel, The Secrets of the Huon Wren, is set in her native Tasmania. Last year, Claire, her husband and their two kids set off on a lap of Australia to experience the world at a more gentle pace. “The way we love to travel is to do less for longer. That has meant that we can experience a place much more deeply,” she says. “When you travel, you’re immediately restricted.