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Rebecca Giggs
Rebecca Giggs is a writer from Perth, Western Australia. Her work has…
DiscoverFathoms Highly Commended for the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation
We’re proud to share that Fathoms: the world in the whale by Rebecca Giggs has been highly commended by the UK Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation.
Rebecca has also won the WA Premier’s Prize for an Emerging Writer, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, the NIB Literary Award, was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction, and was shortlisted for the 2021 Stella Prize.
Fathoms
WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICTION
WINNER OF THE NIB LITERARY AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE KIRKUS PRIZE FOR NONFICTION
HIGHLY COMMENDED IN THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR WRITING ON GLOBAL CONSERVATION
A SUNDAY INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘There is a kind of hauntedness in wild animals today: a spectre related to environmental change … Our fear is that the unseen spirits that move in them are ours. Once more, animals are a moral force.’
When Rebecca Giggs encountered a humpback whale stranded on her local beach in Australia, she began to wonder how the lives of whales might shed light…
