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Rhonda Roberts Rhonda Roberts i(A127548 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Rhonda Roberts is a speculative fiction author. She grew up in Western Australia, has a PhD, and has lectured in Science and Technology Studies at the University of Woolongong.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 recipient ASA Mentorship Fiction

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Hoodwink Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2012 Z1880942 2012 single work novel fantasy

'I’m Kannon Dupree, one of the only private investigators licensed to use the National Time Administration’s portal.

'But time travel can be murder…

'Amid the glamour of 1939 Hollywood, the director of Gone With The Wind goes missing. In the next century his body is discovered cemented into the floor of his own film set…and covered in a fearsome Mayan occult tattoo.

'Kannon is hired to return to the golden year of Hollywood and discover who put the director there and why. While on the set of Gone With The Wind she mixes with the big stars of Hollywood, all of whom have too many secrets to hide, and stumbles onto a mystery that stretches back to the Civil War.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2013 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
y separately published work icon Gladiatrix Pymble : Voyager , 2009 Z1629006 2009 single work novel fantasy

'When time travel was invented everyone thought it would solve their problems. But for 22 year old Kannon Jarratt it's about to turn her life upside down ...

'Left for dead in the Blue Mountains when she was just a baby, Kannon has now discovered that an American Time Marshal, Victoria Dupree, could be her real mother. But Victoria has gone missing in ancient Rome while investigating the Hierophant, the mysterious leader of the Isis cult.

'Kannon desperately wants to find Victoria but the US National Time Administration is standing in her way...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2010 nominated Norma K. Hemming Award
2010 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2010 nominated Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing Best First Novel
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