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London, 1826: Leaving behind his father's failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan. Dismissed by Mr Poll, Gabriel descends into the violence and corruption of London's underworld. Ten years later, another man teaches art in the penal colony of New South Wales. But as becomes clear when he falls in love with one of his pupils, no one may escape their past forever. (Source: Trove)
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Epigraph: We are born with the dead:
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The Resurrectionist was selected as one of the eight featured books on the 2008 'Richard & Judy' Summer Read list in the United Kingdom.
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Great Expectations
2010
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— Appears in: Australian Author , December vol. 42 no. 3 2010; (p. 6-9) -
19th-Century Rational Thought Confines Man to Body
2008
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review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 22 no. 1 2008; (p. 76-77)
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Undercover
2008
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 June 2008; (p. 32) -
What Next for Rosemary Cameron?
2008
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column
— Appears in: The Age , 14 June 2008; (p. 34) A column canvassing current literary news including reports on the Melbourne Writers' Festival, a new global appointment for HarperCollins, and the inclusion of James Bradley's The Resurrectionist on Richard and Judy's Summer Reading List in the United Kingdom. -
[Review] The Resurrectionist
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 1 June no. 5435 2007; (p. 23)
— Review of The Resurrectionist 2006 single work novel
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[Review] The Resurrectionist
2006
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— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , February vol. 85 no. 7 2006; (p. 49)
— Review of The Resurrectionist 2006 single work novel -
Driven to the Brink
2006
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 February 2006; (p. 12-13)
— Review of The Resurrectionist 2006 single work novel -
Body of Evidence
2006
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review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 March 2006; (p. 12)
— Review of The Resurrectionist 2006 single work novel -
Georgian Grunge
2006
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 279 2006; (p. 57)
— Review of The Resurrectionist 2006 single work novel -
Promise of Brilliance Fades in Slow Descent to Hell
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 4 March 2006; (p. 13)
— Review of The Resurrectionist 2006 single work novel -
Work in Progress : On the Resurrectionist
2003
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— Appears in: Heat , no. 6 (New Series) 2003; (p. 217-226) -
Anatomy of Violence
2006
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 March 2006; (p. 20-21) -
My Dark Places
2006
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 5 March 2006; (p. 16) -
Novel Views of History
2006
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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 March 2006; (p. 14-15) Helen MacDonald discusses Bradley's historical novel about dissection, The Resurrectionist, and her own non-fiction work on the same historical subject, Human Remains : Episodes in Human Dissection (Melbourne University Press, 2005), in light of the current interest in literary non-fiction and the arguments for and against history being presented by historians or novelists. -
Hello : James Bradley : Novelist
2006
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column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 6-7 May 2006; (p. 11)
Awards
- 2007 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
- 2006 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize
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- New South Wales,
- 1826-1827
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