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1 y separately published work icon Beyond the Coral Sea : Travels in the Old Empires of the South-West Pacific Michael Moran , London : HarperCollins Australia , 2003 Z1650083 2003 single work prose travel
2 1 y separately published work icon Gei wo lao ye mai yu gan Gao Xingjian , Taipei : Lian He Wen Xue , 2001 Z1105443 2001 selected work short story (taught in 1 units)
1 21 y separately published work icon Cape Grimm Carmel Bird , Pymble : Flamingo , 2004 Z1095404 2004 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

'One clear evening in 1992 all the inhabitants enter the church hall, where they are locked in and burned alive. They have been persuaded to do this by a young man called Caleb Mean - also known as El Nino, the Christ Child. The only survivors of the fire are Caleb, his lover Virginia, and their baby daughter Golden. How could such a thing happen? And why? Do the answers lie in the tragedy of the Aborigines herded over the cliffs at Cape Grimm by white settlers? Are they in the history of Skye itself, founded by the unlikely survivors of a 19th-century shipwreck? Or do they lie within the mysteries of the human soul?' 

Source: ABE Books https://bit.ly/3gtVDeN

7 9 y separately published work icon The Lamplighter Anthony O'Neill , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2003 Z1004288 2003 single work novel fantasy horror detective

'Evelyn is a clever orphan at the Fountainbridge Institute for Destitute Girls. Enchanted by a cheerful lamplighter who fires the streetlamp outside her window each evening, she mesmerizes the other girls with flights of fancy. In a time before Freudian awareness of sexuality and the subconscious mind, such tales are forbidden by the institute's governor, who warns Evelyn to cease her nocturnal storytelling.

'Evelyn defies him - and is cast out of the orphanage and sacrificed to a shadowy figure claiming to be her long-lost father. Who is this man, and why does he lock Evelyn away in a hunting lodge?

'Years later, the mutilated body of a professor of ecclesiastical law turns up on one of Edinburgh's finest streets; the grave of a famous colonel is ravaged; a shady entrepreneur is slaughtered while dashing for a train; and a retired lighthouse keeper is ripped to shreds while walking his dog -- all this after Evelyn, now a young woman, has reappeared in the city.

'What connects the victims? And what of Evelyn, anguished and appealing, who repeatedly claims to have dreamed the murders in great detail - each time blaming a mysterious "lamplighter"?

'Leading the official investigation is Carus Groves, a conceited yet effective police inspector desperate to cap his unremarkable career with a sensational case. Heading up the unofficial investigation is a disillusioned professor of logic and metaphysics, Thomas McKnight, and his assistant, Joseph Canavan, a strapping young gravedigger. Using reason, intuition, philosophy, and luck, these men race to solve the murders and unveil the source of Evelyn's torment, and in so doing penetrate the very gates of Hell.'

Book Jacket. Scribner, 2003. (Libraries Australia record).

1 y separately published work icon Colony Hugo Wilcken , London : Flamingo , 2003 Z1827823 2003 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro : The Greatest Enchanter of the Eighteenth Century Iain McCalman , Pymble : Flamingo , 2003 Z1158056 2003 single work biography
1 11 y separately published work icon Sisters Drusilla Modjeska (editor), Pymble : Angus and Robertson , 1993 Z113149 1993 anthology short story autobiography
1 7 y separately published work icon A War for Gentlemen Jackie French , Pymble London : Flamingo HarperCollins Australia , 2003 Z1089067 2003 single work novel historical fiction
1 5 y separately published work icon A Secret Burial Penelope Sell , Pymble : Flamingo , 2003 Z1056756 2003 single work novel
1 6 y separately published work icon Full Fathom Five Kate Humphrey , Pymble : Flamingo , 2003 Z1040317 2003 single work novel
1 1 y separately published work icon The Cat Who Looked at the Sky : A Memoir Thea Welsh , Pymble : Flamingo , 2003 Z1032905 2003 single work autobiography humour
1 8 y separately published work icon The Snow Queen : A Novel Mardi McConnochie , Pymble : Flamingo , 2003 Z1026114 2003 single work novel historical fiction

'This beautiful fable-like story ranges from the rigid routines of the Imperial Dancers in pre-revolutionary Russia to exile in Australia at the outbreak of World War two. Russian-born Galina, who has danced for the tsar and for Diaghilev's famous ballet in Paris, operates a highly disciplined dance school - an outpost of Imperial Russia - in the dusty Adelaide of the 1940s and 1950s. From this humble base she goes on to form what becomes Australia's first professional ballet troupe. traveling the country it attracts a beautiful, talented young man. these two enact the story of the snow queen - the stern, beautiful woman who picks out a boy for herself, piercing his heart with a spike of ice, only to have her own pierced cruelly in return.' (Synopsis)

3 y separately published work icon The Carpet Wars Christopher Kremmer , London : HarperCollins Australia , 2002 Z1066354 2002 single work prose travel 'A travel memoir, The Carpet Wars offers a personal, vivid, and revealing look at Islam's human face, wracked by turmoil but sustained by friendship, industry, and humor. It is also a historical snapshot of countries at the center of global confrontation that exploded onto the homefront on September 11, 2001.' [book cover]
1 4 y separately published work icon The Voyage of Their Life : The Story of the SS Derna and Its Passengers Diane Armstrong , Pymble : Flamingo , 2002 Z1026460 2002 single work autobiography
1 3 y separately published work icon The Bean Patch : a memoir Shirley Painter , Pymble : Flamingo , 2002 Z978580 2002 single work autobiography
1 4 y separately published work icon Evidence Emma Tom , Pymble : Flamingo , 2002 Z974238 2002 single work novel humour

The rites of passage of two generations are enmeshed in this savagely black chronicle set in the grimy heat of small-town Tantanoula. Herald-Sun (10 August 2002).

In this story a teenage boy is set alight and burnt to death and his 14-year-old neighbour, Cheryl Jane Kiss, is determined to find out who killed him - just as soon as she stops binge-eating her way through the kitchen cupboard. The town they live in is Tantanoula and nothing is quite as it seems in this joint. Cheryl's mother has a few secrets of her own, if she ever sobers up long enough to remember them. Her stepfather, Jackson, meanwhile likes to leave dirty magazines under her mattress. The book deals with issues including depression, teen suicide, alcoholism and eating disorders, so when it's described as a black comedy, the word "black" is used advisedly. Brisbane News, (28 August 2002).

1 11 y separately published work icon The White Body of Evening Andrew McCann , Pymble : Flamingo , 2002 Z973397 2002 single work novel horror 'Behind the respectable facade of turn-of-the-century Melbourne lies another, darker city—one of obsession, derangement, dissipation and crime. This is the world that has driven Albert Walters to the brink of madness, that haunts his abused wife Anna and infects the lives of their children, Paul and Ondine. Led astray by a mysterious charlatan, Paul's artistic ambition conflicts not only with society but with a sister who finds her reflection distorted in the decadence that surrounds her. Spurred on by a shocking murder and fuelled by the absurdities of war and nationhood, Paul is drawn into the darkness that inspires him, while Ondine takes dubious refuge in the light'. Source: bookseller's website.
1 1 y separately published work icon Crowning Glory Karen Van Ulzen , Pymble : Flamingo , 2002 Z965175 2002 single work novel

'Kathleen Lindley has honest brown hair, parted in the middle, because she finds symmetry soothing. Her mother, an overbearing woman, has hair like a steel trap. Kathleen's father, now long dead, was the receding type. Kathleen is well into adulthood before she finds the strength to escape her mother's clutches. She is thirty-two when she finally moves into a flat of her own, against her mother's will. But independence can bring loneliness, and her job managing the Curl Up'n'Dye hairdressing salon doesn't offer much opportunity for friendship. She and her mother are still tied together by the tragedy of her father, whose ghost is hard to dispel. Kathleen meets Jim, but her fragility and his carelessness make poor partners. When his attention starts to waver, she doesn't stop fate from providing its revenge. Clever and cut with black humour, Crowning Glory is about snarls, entanglements and letting down your hair.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 8 y separately published work icon Hardly Beach Weather Bernard Cohen , Pymble : Flamingo , 2002 Z963708 2002 single work novel travel 'Ex-boyfriend Jack drives his ex-girlfriend the 1400 kilometres from Sydney to Adelaide in a small car. Maria is going to Adelaide to meet up with her new boyfriend. Jack offers her a lift because their former love relationship is now improperly defined.

Hardly Beach Weather is a road novel of unremitting Australianness: the sheep in the tuckerbag, a lone woman watching for snakes, mutual misinterpretations of city and bush.

Along the way, Jack and Maria are assaulted by stories of love and heartbreak told by strangers in every country town, by shopkeepers, drinkers, hitchhikers; these are tales which bust through motel walls, interrupt the radio cricket and endlessly remind Jack of his and Maria′s failures and shortcomings.

Despite all evidence, Jack maintains hope - and Maria is very, very patient.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 6 y separately published work icon The Bread with Seven Crusts Susan Temby , Pymble : Flamingo , 2002 Z952958 2002 single work novel historical fiction
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