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Gail Jones Gail Jones i(A26750 works by)
Born: Established: 1955 Harvey, Harvey area, Mandurah - Harvey area, Far Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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1 Gail Jones : Australian Literature is Chronically Underfunded - Here's How to Help it Flourish Gail Jones , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 9 November 2020;

'This is an edited version of author Gail Jones’ submission to the parliamentary inquiry into the creative industries.

'Literary culture carries profound social value. In general terms it is essential to employment, cultural literacy and understanding of community, as well as to Australia’s post-pandemic recovery and growth. It is also radically underfunded and in urgent need of new support.

'I am particularly concerned with the low level of investment in literature through state and federal funding agencies compared with other art forms.'

1 4 y separately published work icon Our Shadows Gail Jones , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2020 19549463 2020 single work novel

'Our Shadows is a story about three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan, whose own history weaves in and out of this beguiling novel.

'Nell and Frances are sisters who are close enough in age to be mistaken for twins. Raised by their grandparents, they now live in Sydney. Each in her own way struggles with the loss of their parents.

'Little by little the sisters grow to understand the imaginative force of the past and the legacy of their shared orphanhood. Then Frances decides to make a journey home to the goldfields to explore what lies hidden and unspoken in their lives, in the shadowy tunnels of the past.' (Publication summary)

1 Beautiful and Clumsy Gail Jones , 2019 single work column
— Appears in: The Australian , 8 June 2019; (p. 16)
1 Turnings and Over-turnings in Glebe Gail Jones , 2018 single work prose
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2018;

'It often rains in Glebe. The suburb is surely wetter than any other, a soaked spongy place, subtropical and ever-damp, populated by giant, bombastic foliage. The blue shade of fig trees is a memory of water. In the gorgeously named Arcadia Road, banked by twenty Hills Weeping Figs, the downcast ripple of shadow can only be called subaquatic.' (Introduction)

2 7 y separately published work icon The Death of Noah Glass Gail Jones , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2018 11873096 2018 single work novel

'The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father’s death. But a sculpture has gone missing from a museum in Palermo, and Noah is a suspect. The police are investigating.

'None of it makes any sense. Martin sets off to Palermo in search of answers about his father’s activities, while Evie moves into Noah’s apartment, waiting to learn where her life might take her. Retracing their father’s steps in their own way, neither of his children can see the path ahead.

'Gail Jones’s mesmerising new novel tells a story about parents and children, and explores the overlapping patterns that life makes. The Death of Noah Glass is about love and art, about grief and happiness, about memory and the mystery of time.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Dark Places : The Movement of the Image (Thoughts on the Work of Veronica Brady) Gail Jones , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Coolabah , no. 22 2017; (p. 10-18)
1 Five Meditations on a Moonlit Night (I.M. Veronica Brady) Gail Jones , 2016 single work essay
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , no. 16 2016; (p. 16-24)
1 Desperate, Marvellous Shuttling : White's Ambivalent Modernism Gail Jones , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Patrick White beyond the Grave : New Critical Perspectives 2015; (p. 155-162)
'Gail Jones...brings Theodor Adorno's characterisation of the post-war era, T.J. Clark's thoughts on modernist visual imagery and Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project into dialogue with White's post-war novel, The Aunt's Story, providing a deeply insightful mediation on its infamous middle section, the 'Jardin Exotique', to reassess the controversial spiritualism of White's work. (Introduction 9)
1 The Missing Novels Debra Adelaide , Bernadette Brennan , Geraldine Brooks , Gregory Day , Ian Donaldson , Anna Funder , Andrea Goldsmith , Rodney Hall , Sonya Hartnett , Gail Jones , Susan Lever , Brian Matthews , Peter Rose , Susan Sheridan , Geordie Williamson , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 374 2015; (p. 41-43)
'Early success is no guarantee of a book’s continued availability or circulation. Some major and/or once-fashionable authors recede from public consciousness, and in some cases go out of print. We invited some writers and critics to identity novelists who they feel should be better known.'
2 11 y separately published work icon A Guide to Berlin Gail Jones , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2015 8588237 2015 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'A Guide to Berlin” is the name of a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925, when he was a young man of 26, living in Berlin.

'A group of six international travellers, two Italians, two Japanese, an American and an Australian, meet in empty apartments in Berlin to share stories and memories. Each is enthralled in some way to the work of Vladimir Nabokov, and each is finding their way in deep winter in a haunted city. A moment of devastating violence shatters the group, and changes the direction of everyone's story.

'Brave and brilliant, A Guide to Berlin traces the strength and fragility of our connections through biographies and secrets. ' (Publication summary)

1 Glasses and Speculations : On Hazzard's Transits Gail Jones , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Shirley Hazzard : New Critical Essays 2014; (p. 65-78)
1 Celebrating Our Far Western City of Contradictions Gail Jones , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 March 2014; (p. 31) The Age , 1 March 2014; (p. 31)

— Review of Perth David Whish-Wilson , 2013 single work prose
1 1 The Ocean Gail Jones , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: A Country Too Far : Writings on Asylum Seekers 2013; (p. 103-109)
1 Books of the Year Patrick Allington , Judith Beveridge , Carmel Bird , Geoffrey Blainey , Alison Broinowski , Sophie Cunningham , Ian Donaldson , Gillian Dooley , Andrea Goldsmith , Kerryn Goldsworthy , Rodney Hall , Paul Hetherington , Gail Jones , Jacqueline Kent , John Kinsella , James Ley , Patrick McCaughey , Brian McFarlane , Michael Morley , Brenda Niall , John Rickard , John Tranter , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2011-January 2012 no. 337 2011; (p. 27-31)
Australian writers and reviewers each nominate their best books of 2011. Some of the books listed are by Australian writers.
1 My Favourite Novel : Swooning to Ondaatje's Roar Gail Jones , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 August 2011; (p. 18-19)
Jones describes Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion (1987) as her favourite novel.
1 Open Page with Gail Jones Gail Jones , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 329 2011; (p. 68)
4 43 y separately published work icon Five Bells Gail Jones , North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2011 Z1735512 2011 single work novel (taught in 19 units)

'On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water.

'But each of the four carries a complicated history from elsewhere; each is haunted by past intimacies, secrets and guilt: Ellie is preoccupied by her sexual experiences as a girl, James by a tragedy for which he feels responsible, Catherine by the loss of her beloved brother in Dublin and Pei Xing by her imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution.

'Told over the course of a single Saturday, Five Bells describes four lives which chime and resonate, sharing mysterious patterns and symbols. But it is a fifth person, a child, whose presence at the Quay haunts the day and who will overshadow everything that unfolds. By night-time, when Sydney is drenched in a rainstorm, each life has been transformed.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 Pride in Tradition of Proactive Energy and Reputation for Taking a Democratic Approach Bonny Cassidy , Gail Jones , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: Sydney Pen Magazine , November 2010; (p. 4-6)
1 In the Darkness, Words to the Rescue Gail Jones , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , May vol. 5 no. 4 2010; (p. 16)

— Review of Reading by Moonlight : How Books Saved a Life Brenda Walker , 2010 single work autobiography
1 Bridge of Sighs Gail Jones , 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: The Best Australian Stories 2009 2009; (p. 1-10)
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