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'Where There's Smoke presents outstanding short fiction by Australia's finest male writers. These are tales of love, secrets, doubt and torment, the everyday and the extraordinary.
'A man sleeps at the site of a massacre and wakes refreshed. An unassuming piano tuner is sent off to contribute to the war effort. A woman with Alzheimer's is dragged along by her interfering son to visit Uluru.
'Brilliant, shocking and profound, these tales will leave you reeling in ways that only a great short story can.
'Chris Womersley Murray Bail Tim Winton Rodney Hall David Malouf Tony Birch Shane Maloney Ryan O'Neill Nam Le Kim Scott
'and many more' (Publication summary)
Contents
- Suddenly Doctor Cox, single work short story
- The Yarra, single work short story
- Silence 1945, single work short story historical fiction
- As a Woman Grows Older, single work short story
- Guns 'N Coffee, single work short story
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Camouflage,
selected work
short story
'The brilliant title story Camouflage tells the story of Eric Banerjee, an Adelaide piano-tuner sent north to defend Australia in 1942. Accompanying it is one of Bail’s masterly pieces of short fiction, The Seduction of My Sister, a weird and compelling account of sibling rivalry and love.'
Source: Text Publishing.
- China, single work short story
- Mrs Porter and the Rock, single work short story
- I See Red, single work short story humour
- Aquifer, single work short story
- Mauve, single work short story
- Ringroad, single work essay
- Sovande A Refreshing Sleep, Lars Ahlström (translator) single work short story
- Sandtrap, single work short story
- I So Do Not Want to Be Having This Conversation, single work short story
- July the Firsts, single work short story
- The Inconvenient Dead, single work short story fantasy
- Flame Bugs on the Sixth Island, single work short story
- Shooting the Dog, single work short story
- Where There's Smoke, single work short story
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Annette Marfording’s Best Reads of 2015
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October - December no. 16 2015; -
Fired up for Short Stories
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Mercury , 5 September 2015; (p. 21)
— Review of Where There's Smoke : Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Men 2015 anthology short story 'Takes of live, secrets uncovered, self-doubt revealed...' -
Men of Letters Fire up
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 September 2015; (p. 6-7)
— Review of Where There's Smoke : Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Men 2015 anthology short story 'Tales of live, secrets uncovered, self-doubt revealed. Australia's finest male writers deliver short stories that will leave you reeling...' -
Who’s Looking Out for Male Writers?
2015
single work
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , June 2015;
-
Men of Letters Fire up
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 September 2015; (p. 6-7)
— Review of Where There's Smoke : Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Men 2015 anthology short story 'Tales of live, secrets uncovered, self-doubt revealed. Australia's finest male writers deliver short stories that will leave you reeling...' -
Fired up for Short Stories
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Mercury , 5 September 2015; (p. 21)
— Review of Where There's Smoke : Outstanding Short Stories by Australian Men 2015 anthology short story 'Takes of live, secrets uncovered, self-doubt revealed...' -
Who’s Looking Out for Male Writers?
2015
single work
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , June 2015; -
Annette Marfording’s Best Reads of 2015
2015
single work
column
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , October - December no. 16 2015;