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3 19 y separately published work icon Up the Country : A Tale of Early Australian Squattocracy Brent of Bin Bin , ( trans. Nelly Lhermillier with title Le pays d'en haut ) La Tour d'Aigues : Editions de l'Aube , 2012 Z430933 1928 single work novel
3 42 y separately published work icon After China Brian Castro , ( trans. Isabelle Lee with title L'architecte chinois ) La Tour d'Aigues : Editions de l'Aube , 2002 Z508518 1992 single work novel (taught in 3 units)

'An architect exiled from China meets an Australian woman writer who is terminally ill. He tells her traditional Chinese stories as a way of overcoming time/mortality, and of coming to terms with his own difficult past.

'For a book which takes loneliness and death for its themes, After China has unexpected reserves of warmth, affection and humour. Insisting on the erotic, it is surprisingly delicate, restrained and chaste. And for a work of such diverse and eclectic reference it is rewardingly resonant and interconnected. The whole novel is thus a brilliant feat of balance.' (Publication summary)
3 10 y separately published work icon Wildfire Susan Geason , ( trans. Edouard Diaz with title La Ville en Flammes ) La Tour d'Aigues : Editions de l'Aube , 2001 Z565760 1995 single work novel crime
3 4 y separately published work icon Sharkbait : A Syd Fish Mystery Susan Geason , ( trans. Edouard Diaz with title Sharkbait : la morsure du requin ) La Tour d'Aigues : Editions de l'Aube , 1998 Z105574 1993 single work novel crime

'Old Selwyn Dixon has been boring Syd Fish and other regulars at the Acropolis cafe for years with stories about his heyday as a jockey. When he goes missing, nobody notices but Val, the big-hearted waitress at the Kings Cross greasy spoon. Even Selwyn's employer, a social-climbing Sydney trainer, seems oddly uninterested in the little jockey's welfare.' (Publication summary)
3 5 y separately published work icon The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery Arthur W. Upfield , 1933 ( trans. Michele Valencia )expression La Tour d'Aigues : Editions de l'Aube , 1998 Z1359841 1933 single work novel crime 'Melbourne during the Depression. A seedy, corrupt city.

'Someone has struck at the heart of Australia's soul: they have killed the horse that would have won the Melbourne Cup. For what motive? Profit, blackmail, a betting scam? Only Tom Pink, the rider of the murdered horse can find out.

'Tom, born into the underworld he now tries to defeat, exposes graft and blackmail that reaches to the upper eschelons of Melbourne society. His life and the lives of those he holds close will never be the same again.

'The Great Melbourne Cup Mystery, written in 1933, a year after the mysterious death of Phar Lap (winner of the 1930 Melbourne Cup), is a previously lost classic of Australian crime fiction.' (Publication summary)
3 11 y separately published work icon Dogfish : A Syd Fish Thriller Susan Geason , ( trans. Edouard Diaz with title Dogfish: eaux troubles à Sydney : roman ) La Tour d'Aigues : Editions de l'Aube , 1996 Z194431 1991 single work novel crime

'Further adventures of Syd Fish, the Darlinghurst private investigator who first appeared in the author's widely acclaimed TShaved Fish'. Story concerns a multi-million dollar investment site, the Sex Workers Union, political corruption and murder. Whilst having a distinctly Australian setting and tone, this novel pays homage to the wit and style of the American Thard-boiled' school of detective writers.' (Publication summary)
7 24 y separately published work icon Woman of the Inner Sea Thomas Keneally , ( trans. Christine Ginoux et. al.agent with title Femme en mer interieure : roman ) La Tour d'Aigues : Editions de l'Aube , 1996 Z270252 1992 single work novel Woman of the Inner Sea is Thomas Keneally's strongest, most compelling work since his Booker Prize-winning Schindler's Ark. Like that book, the story of Woman of the Inner Sea arises from a true incident, and once more the imagining of it is utterly convincing. Kate Gaffney-Kozinski, an attractive, well educated woman, has gone on 'walkabout' to the inner reaches of the Australian outback. Fleeing her wealthy husband, Paul Kozinski, and his unscrupulous clan, Kate is trying to obliterate herself and the grief that haunts her. At first we do not understand its source, but as the story unfolds a kind of mystery evolves around the tragic loss of her two children. In a small town she tries to change herself into a different woman, seeking the companionship and protection of a reticent but rough local man, an explosives expert known as Jelly. But the violence of the west country's unpredictable weather forces her to move on and soon she must confront her husband. No one knows Australian society better than Thomas Keneally, who offers here a rich cross-section of his people: from Kate's prominent father to her controversial uncle, a renegade priest; from the grasping Kozinskis who rule Sydney's construction business to colourful small-town men like Jelly and his friend Gus, who travels with a kangaroo and emu he has rescued from an entertainment park. And at the centre of this panorama stands Kate, a passionate woman of great integrity caught in a nightmare of grief and deception. Woman of the Inner Sea, with its evocation of the heroic in the midst of disaster and evil, will be remembered as one of Thomas Keneally's best works. (Source: LibrariesAustralia)
3 17 y separately published work icon Raki : A Novel B. Wongar , ( trans. Christian Séruzier with title Raki : la corde de chanvre : roman ) La Tour d'Aigues : Editions de l'Aube , 1995 Z857293 1994 single work novel (taught in 1 units)

Raki (which means rope) is set in Australia and Bosnia and deals with issues of black and white relations, ethnic conflict and multi-culturalism. Gara is an Aboriginal youth who is adopted by a Yugoslav family and taken bak to Bosnia. Caught up in the conflict there, he returns to Australia, only to end up in jail, where he hangs himself. (Source: Koori Mail Ed. 85 21 Sept. 1994)
11 138 y separately published work icon My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin , ( trans. Nelly Lhermillier with title Ma brillante carrière ) France : Editions de l'Aube , 1995 Z161522 1901 single work novel (taught in 56 units)

'My Brilliant Career was written by Stella Franklin (1879-1954) when she was just nineteen years old. The novel struggled to find an Australian publisher, but was published in London and Edinburgh in 1901 after receiving an endorsement from Henry Lawson. Although Franklin wrote under the pseudonym 'Miles Franklin', Lawson’s preface makes it clear that Franklin is, as Lawson puts it 'a girl.'

'The novel relates the story of Sybylla Melvyn, a strong-willed young woman of the 1890s growing up in the Goulburn area of New South Wales and longing to be a writer.' (Publication summary)
3 43 y separately published work icon Master of the Ghost Dreaming Mudrooroo , ( trans. Christian Séruzier with title Le Maitre du Reve-Fantome ) France : Editions de l'Aube , 1995 Z232555 1991 single work novel

'... Jangamuttuk is an ageing Aborigine shaman whose people have been relocated to an island off the Australian coast under the control of a former bricklayer turned missionary. Jangamuttuk helps them come to terms with the invaders' presence and, at the same time, offers them a restorative vision of community by entering into "the dreaming," a magical time every bit as real as conventional reality. ...' (Source: Amazon website)
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