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13661y Muriel's Wedding Ringwood : Penguin , 1994 Z486821 1994 single work novel humour satire Muriel Paris : Librairie Générale Française , 1994
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14111y Remembering Babylon London Milsons Point : Chatto and Windus Random House , 1993 Z452447 1993 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 48 units)
'In the mid-1840s, a thirteen-year-old boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by Aborigines. Sixteen years later, when settlers reach the area, he moves back into the world of Europeans, men and women who are staking out their small patch of home in an alien place, hopeful and yet terrified of what it might do to them.
Given shelter by the McIvors, the family of the children who originally made contact with him, Gemmy seems at first to be guaranteed a secure role in the settlement, but there are currents of fear and mistrust in the air. To everyone he meets - from George Abbot, the romantically aspiring young teacher, to Mr Frazer, the minister, whose days are spent with Gemmy recording the local flora; from Janet McIvor, just coming to adulthood and discovering new versions of the world, to the eccentric Governor of Queensland himself - Gemmy stands as a different kind of challenge, as a force which both fascinates and repels. And Gemmy himself finds his own whiteness as unsettling in this new world as the knowledge he brings with him of the savage, the Aboriginal.' - Publisher's blurb (Chatto & Windus, 1993).
Je me souviens de Babylone Paris : 1997 -
14519Grim Pickings Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1987 Z401723 1987 single work novel crime mystery
— Appears in: Sovremennyi avstraliiskii detektiv 1990; (p. Page numbers not available) 'Yes, the old crowd had gathered at Aunt Alice's once again - to pick apples against a chilly orchard setting. Beneath the surface was the usual boiling jealousies, frustrations and uneasy gaps between the generations and in-laws. Or was there something different about this year?' (Source: back cover, 1988 edition) Pommes de discorde : roman Paris : Librairie Générale Française , 1998 -
14964y Lamb to the Slaughter St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1995 Z222960 1995 single work novel crime mystery Debate rages when Trevor Lamb, convicted five years ago for the brutal murder of his wife, is released with a pardon. Passions run high, especially in Hope's End, the tiny rural backwater that is home to the notorious Lamb clan. When, twenty-four hours after his release, Trevor Lamb is found dead in his hometown shack, the police think it's an open and shut case. Privately, some think it's no more than Lamb deserved. But then matters take a shocking twist and private investigator Verity Birdwood finds herself compelled to uncover the truth. (Source: back cover, 1996 edition) L'agneau à l'abattoir : roman Paris : Fayard , 1997
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14964y Lamb to the Slaughter St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1995 Z222960 1995 single work novel crime mystery Debate rages when Trevor Lamb, convicted five years ago for the brutal murder of his wife, is released with a pardon. Passions run high, especially in Hope's End, the tiny rural backwater that is home to the notorious Lamb clan. When, twenty-four hours after his release, Trevor Lamb is found dead in his hometown shack, the police think it's an open and shut case. Privately, some think it's no more than Lamb deserved. But then matters take a shocking twist and private investigator Verity Birdwood finds herself compelled to uncover the truth. (Source: back cover, 1996 edition) L'agneau à l'abattoir : roman Paris : Librairie Générale Française , 2000
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17262y Stranglehold St Leonards : Allen and Unwin , 1993 Z491611 1993 single work novel crime mystery Max Tully, controversial, irrepressible radio superstar, is a man who loves surprises. But when he makes an unexpected announcement at his seventieth birthday party it leads to a complicated web of tangled emotions and murder. It seems that this time Max has gone too far. Cool and logical, Verity Birdwood arrives on the scene. But Verity's routine investigation becomes a hunt for a killer, and as terror stalks Max's house by the sea, Verity finds herself caught in a web that nearly costs her life. (Source: back cover, 1994 edition) Ondes de choc : roman Paris : Librairie Générale Française , 2002
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18216y The Makeover Murders North Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1992 Z461645 1992 single work novel crime mystery 'At discreet Deepdene, the guests are ready to test for themselves the makeover mansion's claim that every woman can - with expensive encouragement - realise her full beauty. Among those guests is Verity Birdwood who, like her surroundings, is not all that she seems. But even sharp, resourceful Birdie does not suspect that within Deepdene's silk-lined walls is an enemy with murder in mind.' (Source: back cover, 1992 paperback edition) Eau trouble : roman Paris : Fayard , 1992
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18216y The Makeover Murders North Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1992 Z461645 1992 single work novel crime mystery 'At discreet Deepdene, the guests are ready to test for themselves the makeover mansion's claim that every woman can - with expensive encouragement - realise her full beauty. Among those guests is Verity Birdwood who, like her surroundings, is not all that she seems. But even sharp, resourceful Birdie does not suspect that within Deepdene's silk-lined walls is an enemy with murder in mind.' (Source: back cover, 1992 paperback edition) Eau trouble : roman Paris : Librairie Générale Française , 2001
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32679y Tuna Melbourne : Cheshire , 1967 Z116786 1967 single work novel Par-dessus bord Paris : Editions Autrement , 2007
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32808y Bloodhouse London : Heinemann , 1974 Z212452 1974 single work novel crime À coups redoublé Paris : Editions Autrement , 2013
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33179y Bleed for Me London : Sphere , 2010 Z1678595 2010 single work novel crime thriller
'She's standing at the front door. Covered in blood. Is she the victim of a crime? Or the perpetrator?
'A teenage girl–Sienna, a troubled friend of his daughter–comes to Joe O'Loughlin's door one night. She is terrorized, incoherent-and covered in blood.
'The police find Sienna's father, a celebrated former cop, murdered in the home he shared with Sienna. Tests confirm that it's his blood on Sienna. She says she remembers nothing.
'Joe O'Loughlin is a psychologist with troubles of his own. His marriage is coming to an end and his daughter will barely speak to him. He tries to help Sienna, hoping that if he succeeds it will win back his daughter's affection. But Sienna is unreachable, unable to mourn her father's death or to explain it.
'Investigators take aim at Sienna. O'Loughlin senses something different is happening, something subterranean and terrifying to Sienna. It may be something in her mind. Or it may be something real. Someone real. Someone capable of the most grim and gruesome murder, and willing to kill again if anyone gets too close.' (Publication summary)
Saigne pour moi : roman Paris : Librairie Générale Française , 2013 -
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The Great World
London
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Chatto and Windus
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1990
Z436200
1990
single work
novel
historical fiction
(taught in 3 units)
'Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eloquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In THE GREAT WORLD, his finest novel yet, David Malouf gives a voice to that experience. But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.'
Source: Publisher's blurb (Vintage reprint).
Ce vaste monde Paris : Librairie Générale Française , 1994 - y Murder by the Book Sydney : Allen and Unwin , 1989 Z10955 1989 single work novel crime mystery It's party time at Berry & Michaels, one of Australia's oldest book publishers. The company is celebrating its recent takeover and the most important Berry & Michaels authors are coming from all over the country. Quentin Hale, the company's new Managing Director from England, thinks this party will be marvellous publicity, but some of the staff don't seem to be in a celebratory mood. Then the murders begin. (Source: dustjacket, 1989 edition) Prière d'inhumer : roman Paris : Fayard , 1994
- y Axiomatic London : Millennium , 1995 Z181163 1995 selected work short story science fiction 'In Axiomatic Egan extrapolates quantum physics to envisage alternative worlds and multiple realities futures. His stories explore the nature of the individual, e.g. how do we adapt to a multiple consciousness environments' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.53). Axiomatique Paris : Librairie Générale Française , 2009
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The Wreckage
London
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Sphere
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2011
Z1776165
2011
single work
novel
crime
thriller
'In London, ex-cop Vincent Ruiz rescues a young woman from a violent boyfriend but wakes next morning to find that he's been set up and robbed. As he tracks down the thieves, he discovers the boyfriend's tortured body and learns that powerful men are looking for the girl. What did Holly Knight steal that is so important to them?
'Meanwhile in Baghdad, the bank robbery capital of the world, billions of dollars in reconstruction funds has gone missing and Pulitzer prize-winning Journalist Luca Terracini is trying to "follow the money". The dangerous trail will lead him to London where he teams up with Vincent Ruiz and together they investigate the disappearance of an international banker and a mysterious "black hole" in the bank's accounts.' (From the publisher's website.)
Déroute : Roman Paris : Librairie Générale Française , 2015