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Jo Lennan Jo Lennan i(6396150 works by)
Born: Established: Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

'Born in Wollongong, Jo Lennan studied in Sydney and Oxford. She has worked as a lawyer and writer, contributing to The Economist1843Time Magazine and The Monthly. Her work has featured in the Best Australian Stories and Best Australian Essays anthologies.' (Source : Simon and Schuster website)

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y separately published work icon In the Time of Foxes Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2020 19105329 2020 selected work short story

'A fox could be a shape-shifter, a spirit being. It could appear in human form if this suited its purposes; it could come and go as it pleased, play tricks, lead men astray.’

'A film director in Hackney with a fox problem in her garden; an escapee from a cult in Japan; a Sydney café-owner rekindling an old flame; an English tutor who gets too close to an oligarch; a journalist on Mars, face-to-face with his fate.

'The world has taught these men and women to live off their wits. They know how to play smart, but what happens when they need to be wise?

'In the Time of Foxes is both compellingly readable and deeply insightful about the times in which we live, each narrative a compressed novel. With an exhilarating span of people and places, woven together by the most mercurial of animals, it shows the short story collection at its most entertaining and rewarding, and introduces Jo Lennan as a captivating new storyteller.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction
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