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Issue Details: First known date: 1994... 1994 Small Tales of Early Australia
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y separately published work icon L'Amour Aux Antipodes Tasma , 1880 single work short story romance
— Appears in: La Nouvelle Revue , 15 August 1880;
y separately published work icon Me and My Horse : Showing How I Got Him, How I Kept Him, and All About Him : Being Sketches of Life on the Peel River Diggings Charles De Boos , Canberra : Mulini Press , 2004 Z1172360 1880 single work novella humour
y separately published work icon Breaking the Law Catherine Martin , Canberra : Mulini Press , 1997 Z824304 1879 single work short story
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y separately published work icon The Bullet of the Fated Ten 'Price Warung' , Jamison Centre : Mulini Press , 1994 Z553679 1897 single work short story historical fiction This is a tale of ten convicts condemned to death in Sydney and their appeal to 'The Ring' in an attempt to escape the sentence. It is a good tale which maintains the suspense with a masterly hand. Set in the convict period it cleverly depicts the convict way of thinking and the attitude of the warders and the authorities. Also appearing are the women prisoners who are effectively used in the story. (Back cover). Jamison Centre : Mulini Press , 1994
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y separately published work icon The Mystery of Major Molineux Marcus Clarke , 1881 single work novella mystery horror

'The Mystery of Major Molineux is a strange and weird production, evidently founded on a fact connected with the early history of Tasmania. As a psychological study it approaches in subtlety to some of the most successful efforts of the author of Adam Bede; while for intensity of sustained interest and soul-thrilling excitement it is only surpassed by Edgar Allen Poe in The Mystery of Marie Roget and The Murders in the Rue Morgue.

'That the story is based upon fact does not detract from its interest, but rather lends an air of vraisemblance to a story which would otherwise be too appalling. It is an introspective study, a psychological romance, a social drama - worthy of the author of His Natural Life.'

[Source: Burra Record 22 June 1881, p.2]

 Jamison Centre : Mulini Press , 1996
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y separately published work icon The Haunted Station Hume Nisbet , Jamison Centre : Mulini Press , 1997 Z385592 1894 single work short story horror mystery

"The narrator of his ghost story, a medical practitioner, becomes a convict after he is wrongly accused of his wife’s murder and transported to the Australian colonies to work in Fremantle building roads. After landing in Australia he seeks his liberty by fleeing into the bush with two fellow convicts. Taking advantage of the capture and shooting of his accomplices, the narrator makes his escape into the wilderness—travelling to a “far off and as yet unnamed portion of Western Australia” (Nisbet 116). Wandering delirious in a hostile environment, Nisbet’s narrator, who is “expectant of something ghoulish and unnatural” to come upon him from “the sepulchral gloom and mystery” (110), suddenly comes upon “a house of two storeys”.

Source: "National Hauntings: The Architecture of Australian Ghost Stories" by David Crouch. 

 Jamison Centre : Mulini Press , 1997
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y separately published work icon Bella of Barina Louis Becke , Jamison Centre : Mulini Press , 2002 Z1011803 1906 single work novella adventure The son of an honest local magistrate on the north coast of New South Wales becomes the innocent spectator of opium-smuggling in the days when 'there were no breech-loaders in Australia.' A wealth of detail almost suggests personal knowledge of the trade, and the narrator's attitude to the law, represented by a police posse including an Irish trooper who betrays the smugglers, is ambivalent. The smuggling neighbours are sympathetically portrayed, but though they escape overseas, the cost of betrayed trust and lost friendship to the narrator's family is emphasised. Jamison Centre : Mulini Press , 2002
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y separately published work icon Raymond John Lang , Edinburgh : 1840 Z1201799 1840 single work novel Canberra : Mulini Press , 2004
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y separately published work icon Tales of the Bushman Samuel Sidney , John Sidney , Canberra : Mulini Press , 2006 Z1328626 2006 selected work short story

John Sidney came to Australia in 1840. He spent ten years in the colony. On his return to England he told his brother Samuel about his experiences in Australia. Samuel wrote them down and they were published in Household Words 1850-1852. John returned to Australia and sent news back to his brother. Samuel Sidney never visited Australia. His novel Gallops and Gossips in the Bush of Australia is based on his brother's information.

 Canberra : Mulini Press , 2006
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y separately published work icon Waiting Theresa Tasmania , Jamison Centre : Mulini Press , 2008 Z1550326 1869 single work short story 'Waiting tells the plight of a young firl who married on her voyage out to Australia as an emigrant. The marriage was to a man who treated her very badly and she ran away and secured a position as a governess. All was well until she met a man whith whom she fell in love. She could not marry him because she was already married. Then began her period of "waiting".' (Back cover) Jamison Centre : Mulini Press , 2008
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y separately published work icon Waiting Theresa Tasmania , Canberra : Mulini Press , 2008 Z1065122 1869 single work short story A beautiful, clever, spirited girl, daughter of an English clergyman, emigrates to Australia after his death. On the voyage she meets Martin Jeffries who she marries only to be mistreated and beaten. She leaves him and takes a position as governess only to meet the man she truly loves. It is twelve years before her husband is reported dead - and then she must wait to see if her lover is still true ... (PB) Canberra : Mulini Press , 2008
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y separately published work icon Three Murder Mysteries Mary Fortune , Canberra : Mulini Press , 2009 Z1605126 2009 selected work short story crime detective

'This incredible writer had been largely forgotten and was unknown as a person until Lucy Sussex took up her cause and went in search of her life.

The three 'Murder Mysteries' here published, are examples of Mary Fortune's great skill in writing 'detective fiction' at this early period when the genre was in the beginning stages of a now popular form of fiction. The three stories are introduced by Lucy Sussex.' (Publisher's blurb)

 Canberra : Mulini Press , 2009

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