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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 UQP Modern Classics
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y separately published work icon Fineflour Gillian Mears , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990 Z362053 1990 selected work short story

'Collection of short stories by the author of To Ride a Cock Horse', winner of the 1989 South East Asian and South Pacific First Book Award in the British Commonwealth Writers Prize. The stories are linked together by the river Fineflour and its place in the lives of the characters through successive generations.' (Publication summary)

St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2013
y separately published work icon Loving Daughters Olga Masters , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1984 Z384163 1984 single work novel St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2014
y separately published work icon Joan Makes History Kate Grenville , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 Z376629 1988 single work novel historical fiction

Australia's history retold through the eyes of Joan, a woman who has never rated a mention in the school books. Joan leads many lives: she is a wife and mother of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is present at all the big moments of Australia's past. (Source: Trove)

St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2014
y separately published work icon Miss Peabody's Inheritance Elizabeth Jolley , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1983 Z796757 1983 single work novel (taught in 4 units)

'In this potent tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne is a brilliant, witty and accomplished woman. The exotic tale of this flamboyant eccentric and her European travels – with jealous secretary and shy schoolgirl protégée – is the inheritance that transforms the uneventful suburban life of Miss Peabody.' (Publication summary)

St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2014
y separately published work icon A Descant for Gossips Thea Astley , London : Angus and Robertson , 1960 Z269902 1960 single work novel

'In this classic story of small-town life, two schoolteachers are drawn to each other by their concern for a lonely young girl. For as long as Vinny Lalor could remember, she had been on the fringe of things – in her family and at school. But as the final term of the year progresses, rumour and malice mount against Vinny and her two teachers, sweeping them towards scandal and, for one of them, disaster.' (Source : UQP 2015 reissue.)

St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2015
y separately published work icon Charades Janette Turner Hospital , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 Z439072 1988 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'From the subtropical lushness of Queensland’s Tamborine Rainforest to the claustrophobic bedroom of a Boston physicist, Janette Turner Hospital’s characters breathe an atmosphere of passion and suspense. Charade Ryan, an enigmatic story-spinning Scheherazade, searches for a way to unravel the long-held secrets of her family origins. As the narrative flits between the present and the past, and truth becomes increasingly subjective, Charade weaves a rich and textural tale out of the myths of her past. This vibrant, superbly crafted novel explores the elusive boundaries between existence and imagination, memory and truth.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (UQP, 2015 ed.)

St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2015
y separately published work icon Things Could Be Worse Lily Brett , 1999 selected work short story
— Appears in: Collected Stories 1999;
'This work tells of a Jewish family in Melbourne and its company of friends, and explores issues of conflict and reconciliation, and of memory and forgetting in relation to her protagonists' experiences of the Holocaust.' (The Bibliography of Australasian Judaica 1788-2008, p. 10)
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2016
y separately published work icon The Frangipani Gardens Barbara Hanrahan , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1980 Z521031 1980 single work novel

'Nothing is as it seems in this twisted fairytale of moral ambiguity and corrupted innocence. Just as the tropical beauty of The Frangipani Gardens conceals its inherent menace, watercolour painter Doll lives a prim, respectable existence belying her wildest fantasies. But when her young niece and nephew come to stay, Doll’s true self threatens to be exposed.' (Publication summary)

St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2017

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First known date: 2013
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