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Born: Established: 2003 Mouries,
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France,
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Western Europe, Europe, ;
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2 24 y separately published work icon Craft for a Dry Lake Kim Mahood , ( trans. Guillemette Belleteste with title Vaisseau pour un lac mort : journal de bord ) Mouries : Le Fil Invisible , 2004 Z997375 2000 single work autobiography (taught in 4 units) In Craft for a Dry Lake, Kim Mahood embarks on an extraordinary journey to her heartland - the outback of her youth. Compelled to revisit the haunts of her childhood by the tragic death of her father, Kim seeks to lay his ghost to rest, but instead finds herself faced with many of her own. Her adventures are interwoven with the echoes of childhood memories and peopled by an intriguing cast of outback characters. At times the lines between past and present become blurred as a daughter travels in the footsteps of her father, searching for a sense of place in this landscape she once called home. (Source: Trove)
2 14 y separately published work icon How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia Sylvia Lawson , ( trans. Mireille Vignol with title Comment Simone de Beauvoir est morte en Australie ) Mouries : Le Fil Invisible , 2004 Z926778 2002 selected work short story essay criticism With a keen critical eye and sharp insight Sylvia Lawson moves the essays and stories in this collection through settings in and out of Australia - across Paris, West Papua, Britain, Indonesia - listening to the distinctive local voices from our cultural margins and reclaiming concerns the metropolitan centres ignore. (Source: Publisher's Website)
3 13 y separately published work icon The Architect : A Tale John Scott , ( trans. Myriam Anderson with title L' architecte ) Mouries : Le Fil Invisible , 2004 Z824825 2001 single work novel

Two architects: Andrew Martin, a feted young Australian whose success has come early and Johannes Von Ruhland, an ageing genius whose work has never been realised. When Martin finally meets the mythic Von Ruhland on a trip to Berlin, it is a dream fulfilled, but once that dream is brought back to Australia, it jeopardises his marriage and divides his friends. (Source: Trove)
7 93 y separately published work icon Lilian's Story Kate Grenville , ( trans. Mireille Vignol )expression Mouries : Le Fil Invisible , 2004 Z1039066 1985 single work novel (taught in 5 units)

Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the house where she grew up, but Lilian's sights are set on education, love and - finally - her own transcendent forms of independence. Lilian Singer, who starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class Australian family and ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare for a living.
2 11 y separately published work icon There'll Be New Dreams Philip McLaren , ( trans. Françoise Brodsky with title Nouveaux Reves ) Mouries : Le Fil Invisible , 2003 Z901276 2001 single work novel (taught in 1 units) 'A human and pacey novel about marriage, kidnap, courtroom battles, the charm of youth and the tragedy that lurks in a darkened alley. A dynamic work done by one of Australia's most highly regarded Indigenous writers.' Source: Publishers blurb.
15 11 y separately published work icon The Dressmaker Rosalie Ham , ( trans. Marianne Véron )expression Mouries : Le Fil Invisible , 2003 Z668510 2000 single work novel (taught in 1 units) Dungatar is a small town like any other in the Victorian wheatlands - except that the women dress like Paris models. This is the story of the exotic Tilly, a talented and beautiful misfit, who returns from Europe to Dungatar to nurse her mad old mother. Her reappearance after twenty years is met with suspicion and malice from the eccentric locals until they discover her startling dressmaking skills. Gradually, she wins over the town with her fabulous creations. Then she falls in love and things start to go terribly wrong. (Source: Trove)
3 28 y separately published work icon Leaning Towards Infinity : How My Mother's Apron Unfolds into My Life Sue Woolfe , ( trans. Marie-Odile Fortier-Masek with title Ad Infinitum ou Comment le Tablier de Ma Mere Se Deroule dans Ma Vie ) Mouries : Le Fil Invisible , 2003 Z254353 1996 single work novel This is the story of Frances Monrose, an Australian woman with no formal mathematics training who carried across the world in a suitcase bulging with a friend's balldresses, something no one knew about - the discovery of a new number. It is also the story of Hypatia, her daughter, who is also cursed by mathematics. (Source: Trove)
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