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Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 A Gap in the Records
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The usual thriller male hero is replaced with a group of four women who unravel the plot involving espionage, political manipulation and global financial empires. (It) explodes the stylistic limits of the spy thriller genre. (Publisher blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fitzroy, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Sybylla Press , 1985 .
      Extent: 113p.
      Reprinted: 1987 Called 2nd ed but has same ISBN as original publication
      ISBN: 0908205031

Other Formats

  • Also braille and sound recording.

Works about this Work

"A Mob of Bloody Women" - Utopia, Collectivity and Multiplicity in Some Recent Fiction by Australian Women Eleanor Hogan , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Current Tensions : Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference : 6 - 11 July 1996 1996; (p. 236-242)
Reliable Pleasures Jan McKemmish , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Killing Women : Rewriting Detective Fiction 1993; (p. 73-86)
Killing Women : Rewriting Detective Fiction : Introduction Delys Bird , Brenda Walker , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Killing Women : Rewriting Detective Fiction 1993; (p. 1-60)
Designer Claoks and Daggers : Some Thoughts on Women's Crime Fiction Wendy Larcombe , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , September vol. 1 no. 1 1989; (p. 20-22)
Recording the Gaps Dorothy Jones , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Hecate , vol. 15 no. 2 1989; (p. 70-77) A Kingdom and a Place of Exile : Critical Essays on Postcolonial Women's Writing 2010; (p. 62-69)
Filling the Feminist Gap Don Anderson , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The National Times , 21-27 June 1985; (p. 30)

— Review of The Waters of Vanuatu / Kites in Jakarta Moya Costello , Carmel Kelly , 1985 selected work short story ; A Gap in the Records Jan McKemmish , 1985 single work novel
Cliff Hardy Continues to be Busy but has a Radical Rival Stephen Knight , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4 May 1985; (p. 45)

— Review of A Gap in the Records Jan McKemmish , 1985 single work novel
Jade and Bullets Edmund Campion , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 71 1985; (p. 23)

— Review of A Gap in the Records Jan McKemmish , 1985 single work novel
The Spy Who Came in for Some Chaos Rosemary Neill , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 21 May vol. 107 no. 5468 1985; (p. 88,90)

— Review of A Gap in the Records Jan McKemmish , 1985 single work novel
Untitled Don Anderson , 1989 single work review
— Appears in: The Good Reading Guide 1989; (p. 182)

— Review of A Gap in the Records Jan McKemmish , 1985 single work novel
Designer Claoks and Daggers : Some Thoughts on Women's Crime Fiction Wendy Larcombe , 1989 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , September vol. 1 no. 1 1989; (p. 20-22)
"A Mob of Bloody Women" - Utopia, Collectivity and Multiplicity in Some Recent Fiction by Australian Women Eleanor Hogan , 1996 single work criticism
— Appears in: Current Tensions : Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference : 6 - 11 July 1996 1996; (p. 236-242)
Killing Women : Rewriting Detective Fiction : Introduction Delys Bird , Brenda Walker , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: Killing Women : Rewriting Detective Fiction 1993; (p. 1-60)
Reliable Pleasures Jan McKemmish , 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Killing Women : Rewriting Detective Fiction 1993; (p. 73-86)
Feminist Writings, Feminist Readings : Recent Australian Writing by Women Kerryn Goldsworthy , 1985 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 44 no. 4 1985; (p. 506-515)
Last amended 23 Jun 2006 18:53:19
Subjects:
  • Pine Gap, Alice Springs, Southern Northern Territory, Northern Territory,
  • c
    China,
    c
    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Hong Kong,
    c
    China,
    c
    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
Settings:
  • 1980s
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