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1 Death Zephyr i "We stand under the glass yams", Tessa Lunney , 2021 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 May no. 101 2021;
1 1 y separately published work icon April in Paris, 1921 Tessa Lunney , Sydney South : HarperCollins Australia , 2018 13529932 2018 single work novel historical fiction crime

'It's 1921, and after two years at home in Australia, Katherine King Button has had enough. Her rich parents have ordered her to get married, but after serving as a nurse during the horrors of the Great War, she has vowed never to take orders again. She flees her parents and the prison of their expectations for the place of friendship and freedom: Paris.

'Paris in 1921 is the city of freedom, the place where she can remake herself as Kiki Button, gossip columnist extraordinaire, partying with the rich and famous, the bohemian and bold, the suspicious and strange.

'But on the modelling dais, Picasso gives her a job: to find his wife's portrait, which has gone mysteriously missing. That same night, her old spymaster from the war contacts her - she has to find a double agent or face jail. Through parties, whisky and informants, Kiki has to use every ounce of her determination, her wit and her wiles to save herself, the man she adores, and the life she has come to love - in just one week.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon Kiki Button Mysteries Tessa Lunney , 2018- 13529903 2018 series - author novel
1 'A Hundred Small Lessons' by Ashley Hay Tessa Lunney , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 391 2017;
'A Hundred Small Lessons holds powerful truths, simply told. It is a story of parenthood and place, where small domestic moments, rather than dramatic public displays, are the links between people, the present and the past. Each moment occurs in and around a familiar, ordinary Brisbane house, and the book begins when Elsie, the nonagenarian resident, leaves this house for a nursing home, and Lucy and Ben move in with their son Tom.' (Introduction)
1 Review : Archipelago of Souls Tessa Lunney , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 3 2016; (p. 251-255)

— Review of Archipelago of Souls Gregory Day , 2015 single work novel
1 V Tessa Lunney , 2016 single work short story
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 3 2016; (p. 170-182)
1 Debra Adelaide, The Women's Pages Tessa Lunney , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 2 2016; (p. 265-267)

— Review of The Women's Pages Debra Adelaide , 2015 single work novel
1 Fiz i "Smudge’s look flicks like a knife.", Tessa Lunney , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 October no. 52.0 2015;
1 Smudge i "I look at him but he looks at her.", Tessa Lunney , 2015 single work poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 October no. 52.0 2015;
1 The Crowley-Fizelle School Tessa Lunney , 2015 sequence poetry
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 October no. 52.0 2015;
1 [Review] Here Come the Dogs Tessa Lunney , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 74 no. 3 2014; (p. 241-246)

— Review of Here Come the Dogs Omar Musa , 2014 single work novel
1 1992 i "The central library full of Hebrew, Christian and Islamic books was bombed", Tessa Lunney , 2014 single work poetry
— Appears in: The Best Australian Poems 2014 2014; (p. 73)
1 The Secret Maker of the World by Abbas El-Zein Tessa Lunney , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , October no. 16 2014;

— Review of The Secret Maker of the World : Stories Abbas El-Zein , 2014 selected work short story
1 The Mare Tessa Lunney , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 73 no. 3 2013; (p. 191-200)
1 Long Story Shorts from Affirm Press : Part Two Tessa Lunney , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 72 no. 2 2012; (p. 170-174)

— Review of Two Steps Forward Irma Gold , 2011 selected work short story ; Bearings Leah Swann , 2011 selected work short story novella
1 Long Story Shorts from Affirm Press Tessa Lunney , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 70 no. 3 2011;

— Review of Having Cried Wolf Gretchen Shirm , 2010 selected work short story ; Nineteen Seventysomething Barry Divola , 2010 single work novel ; Under Stones Bob Franklin , 2010 selected work short story ; Known Unknowns Emmett Stinson , 2010 selected work short story
1 The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker Tessa Lunney , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , no. 5 2009;

— Review of The Ghost at the Wedding Shirley Walker , 2009 single work biography
1 Sunset over Marrickville i "Suburban shops have only two stories.", Tessa Lunney , 2008-2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Phoenix : The University of Sydney Writers Journal , no. 3 2008-2009; (p. 98)
1 Home i "At Avalon, the cockatoos screech yellow", Tessa Lunney , 2008-2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: Phoenix : The University of Sydney Writers Journal , no. 3 2008-2009; (p. 90-95)
1 Touching the Wound Tessa Lunney , 2007 single work short story
— Appears in: Phoenix : The University of Sydney Writers Journal 2007; (p. 130-137)
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