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1 7 y separately published work icon The Last Explorer : Hubert Wilkins : Australia's Unknown Hero Simon Nasht , New York (City) : Arcade , 2006 Z1205994 2005 single work biography
7 19 y separately published work icon In My Skin : A Memoir Kate Holden , New York (City) : Arcade , 2005 Z1206034 2005 single work autobiography (taught in 1 units)

"I watched the glaze of headlights, the windscreens of oncoming cars: a series of trapezoids with the silhouette of a single male driver. One pulled up in front of me; I reached over and opened the door, slid in. The smell of an unfamiliar car. A middle-aged man looking at me. 'Hi', I said. 'How are you?"...

'There was no single moment when someone looked at Kate Holden and said, 'Why don't you have some?' No one made her try heroin. There was only the sense, with her friends setting out on this forbidden adventure, that she would lose something if she didn't. Just once: to know. So this book is the story of a journey. From a loving family home to the streets of St Kilda; from a shy, bookish life to the ambivalent glamour of an inner-city brothel, Kate Holden describes with breathtaking lyricism and poignancy her travels in an unknown world. Contains explicit sexual scenes.' (Source: Vision Australia Information and Library Service)
1 3 y separately published work icon The Verge Practice Barry Maitland , New York (City) : Arcade , 2003 Z1057427 2003 single work novel crime detective mystery
1 10 y separately published work icon Babel Barry Maitland , New York (City) : Arcade , 2003 Z979871 2002 single work novel crime detective mystery
1 10 y separately published work icon Stormy Weather Michael Meehan , New York (City) : Arcade , 2002 Z168121 2000 single work novel 'Among the players is the Prospero-like compere, endlessly scribbling and patiently shoring up the psyches of his troupe; Balt, who carries the luggage and the props, as well as a burden of silence and sadness; and Mrs. Barrington, a weeping, middle-aged soprano, whose voice is fading but who, in one magic moment, might again find the haunting truth of her young self. Ceaselessly devising pranks that threaten the success of the performance is the mischievous, swamp-dwelling rabbiter, whose obsession, a pale English girl with a saxophone, becomes a new Ariel. They each, whether show-man or rustic, have their own stories - of illusions fostered and shattered, desires met and denied - and their own particular revelation in the course of Meehan's eloquent and beautifully descriptive narrative. Yet as diverse as they may be, they are bound together this one evening by the transformative power of art.'--Book Jacket.
1 4 y separately published work icon Silvermeadow Barry Maitland , New York (City) : Arcade , 2002 Z140630 2000 single work novel crime detective mystery (taught in 2 units)
2 10 y separately published work icon The Big Ask Shane Maloney , New York (City) : Arcade , 2001 Z668709 2000 single work novel crime humour

'Murray Whelan is in trouble. A disastrous election result is looming and his days as a political minder seem numbered. But when his boss Angelo Agnelli picks a fight with the trucking industry, and Murray finds himself on the receiving end of a fist at a city nightclub, his employment prospects seem the least of his problems.

'And that’s before he finds himself sampling Cheryl’s melons in the back of a truck at the fruit and vegetable market at five in the morning. With a runaway son on his hands, the police at his heels, adultery in the air and a gun buried in the backyard, Murray faces his toughest test yet.' (Publication summary)
1 17 y separately published work icon The Salt of Broken Tears Michael Meehan , New York (City) : Arcade , 2001 Z315472 1999 single work novel 'On a farm on the edge of the endless, remote salt flats of Australia, an embattled family struggles in the midst of the Depression to scrape out an existence and survive the dust and despair. Regular visitors are few - only the Debt Adjuster and the wandering Indian hawker, Cabel Singh - until the day Eileen, a mysterious young woman, blows in from nowhere and alters the family's precarious equilibrium. The boy is fascinated by her, his mother despises her, and Joe, the brutish farmhand and the boy's idol, wants to possess her. When Eileen suddenly disappears, the only trace of her a torn and bloodied dress, the boy saddles up his horse, takes his pup, and sets out to find her. Traveling through the bleak, unforgiving country, the boy encounters a bizarre array of lost souls scattered across the wasteland: a bone-collector living in a ghost town at the end of a gleaming new railway line; an isolated crew of Italian woodcutters who speak of an imprisoned husband, manacled by his wife in a farmhouse basement; a man on a bicycle who recalls his soldier days in Paris after the Great War; and river dwellers who take the boy to a pajama-wearing corpse lying aloft in a tree. Throughout these strange meetings, rumours of the enigmatic Cabel Singh drift like the desert dust, and as the boy journeys on, he becomes aware of another party whose path is converging murderously with his own.'--Book Jacket.
2 6 y separately published work icon The Chalon Heads Barry Maitland , New York (City) : Arcade , 2001 Z231243 1999 single work novel crime detective mystery
4 6 y separately published work icon The Malcontenta Barry Maitland , New York (City) : Arcade , 2000 Z77904 1995 single work novel crime detective mystery
3 10 y separately published work icon Nice Try Shane Maloney , New York (City) : Arcade , 2000 Z305343 1998 single work novel crime humour

'When Murray Whelan, lovelorn political minder and part-time fitness fanatic, is recruited to massage Australia’s bid for the Olympics he has no idea how tough the going will get.

'Not even the sight of the gorgeous Holly Deloite in her taut blue leotard at the City Club can stop him diving head first into trouble. And, when the death of the young Aboriginal athlete Darcy Anderson proves that murder is a contact sport, Murray is soon breaking all the rules.

'Mixing it with a savvy black activist, a body-building psychopath and the enigmatic Dr Phillipa Knox, Murray jumps the gun every time.' (Publication summary)
5 6 y separately published work icon The Marx Sisters Barry Maitland , New York (City) : Arcade , 1999 Z539766 1994 single work novel crime detective mystery
3 14 y separately published work icon Stiff Shane Maloney , New York (City) : Arcade , 1999 Z510801 1994 single work novel crime humour

'The first Murray Whelan adventure

'The fiddle at the Pacific Pastoral meat-packing works was a nice little earner for all concerned until Herb Gardiner reported finding a body in number 3 chiller. An accident, of course, but just the excuse a devious political operator might grab to stir up trouble with the unions.

'Enter Murray Whelan, minder, fixer and general dogsbody for the Minister of Industry. Between playing of party factions and pursuing the kohl-eyed Ayisha, it’s all in a day’s work for Murray to hose down the situation at Pacific Pastoral.

'Then the lairy V8 turns up. And after that, it gets personal. Because don’t you just hate it when somebody tries to kill you and you don’t know who or why?' (Publication summary)
5 19 y separately published work icon The Brush-Off Shane Maloney , New York (City) : Arcade , 1998 Z316121 1996 single work novel crime humour (taught in 3 units)
— Appears in: The Murray Whelan Trilogy 2001;

'On a sultry summer night Murray Whelan is in the Botanical Gardens tasting Salina Fleet's apricot lips. Meanwhile the body of an artist is being fished from the ornamental moat outside the Art Gallery. The papers called it suicide. The police say it's an accident.

'Political minder, brushed-off lover and art buff on the make, Murray goes looking for the big picture. He finds there's more than meets the eye among the self-made millionaires, ruthless culture vultures, and cool operators of Melbourne's art world. He learns that when you dabble with death there's nothing abstract about a loaded gun.

'Murray Whelan, the hero of Stiff, Shane Maloney's brilliant debut novel, is back at his richly futile best. A romantic comedy and drop-dead thriller, The Brush-Off mixes high art with low blows.' (Publication summary)
4 59 y separately published work icon The Monkey's Mask Dorothy Porter , New York (City) : Arcade , 1995 Z528794 1994 single work novel crime (taught in 31 units)
18 219 y separately published work icon My Place Sally Morgan , New York (City) : Arcade , 1990 Z384564 1987 single work autobiography (taught in 30 units)

'In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace. What started as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Place is a moving account of a search for truth into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories.' Source: Publisher's blurb.
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