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Alison Goodman Alison Goodman i(A20719 works by)
Born: Established: 1966 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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Alison Goodman holds a BA in Professional Writing and Literature and a Master of Arts. She has taught creative writing at the University of Ballarat, and she was the 1999 D.J. O'Hearn Memorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. As of 2018, Goodman was completing a PhD at The University of Queensland.

Goodman's first novel, Singing the Dogstar Blues (1998), won the Aurealis Award for best young adult novel. She followed this with a standalone novel (Killing the Rabbit, republished as A New Kind of Death) and two significant series: Eon (2008-2011) and the Lady Helen series (ongoing as of 2017). The Eon / Eona duology has been translated into twelve languages and published in eighteen countries. She has also published a number of short stories.

Goodman has won the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel (Eon) and the award for Best Young Adult novel twice (Lady Helen and the Dark Days Pact and Singing the Dogstar Blues), and has been longlisted and shortlisted for a range of other significant Australian and international awards, including the Davitt Award, the Norma K. Hemming Award, both the New South Wales and the Victorian Premier's Awards, and the James Tiptree Jr Award.

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y separately published work icon The Benevolent Society of Ill-Mannered Ladies United Kingdom (UK) : Piatkus , 2023 24649492 2023 single work novel historical fiction mystery

'A high society amateur detective at the heart of Regency London uses her wits and invisibility as an 'old maid' to protect other women in a new and fiercely feminist historical mystery series from New York Times bestselling author Alison Goodman.

'Welcome to the secret life of the Colebrook twins: unnoticed old maids to most, but unseen champions to those in need - society be damned.

'Lady Augusta Colebrook, 'Gus', is determinedly unmarried, bored by society life, and tired of being dismissed at the age of forty-two. She and her twin sister, Julia, who is grieving her dead betrothed, need a distraction. One soon presents itself: to rescue their friend's goddaughter, Caroline, from her violent husband.

'The sisters set out to Caroline's country estate with a plan, but their carriage is accosted by a highwayman. In the scuffle, Gus accidentally shoots the ruffian, only to discover he is Lord Evan Belford, an acquaintance from their past who was charged with murder and exiled to Australia twenty years ago. With Lord Evan injured and unconscious, the sisters have no choice but to bring him on their mission to save Caroline. What follows is a high adventure full of danger, clever improvisation, heart-racing near misses, and a little help from a revived and rather charming Lord Evan.

'And so begin the beguiling adventures of the Colebrook twins ...' (Publication summary) 

2023 longlisted HNSA Historical Novel Prize Adult
y separately published work icon Lady Helen and the Dark Days Deceit Sydney South : HarperCollins Australia , 2018 13424969 2018 single work novel young adult fantasy

'Lady Helen has retreated to a country estate outside Bath to prepare for her wedding to the Duke of Selburn, yet she knows she has unfinished business to complete. She and the dangerously charismatic Lord Carlston have learned they are a dyad, bonded in blood, and only they are strong enough to defeat the Grand Deceiver, who threatens to throw mankind into chaos. But the heinous death-soaked Ligatus Helen has absorbed is tearing a rift in her mind. Its power, if unleashed, will annihilate both Helen and Carlston unless they can find a way to harness its ghastly force and defeat their enemy.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2018 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Fantasy Division Novel
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