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1 y separately published work icon Anna Karenina Isn’t Dead Atlin Merrick (editor), Bittern : Improbable Press , 2024 28262818 2024 anthology short story

'From Russia's Anna Karenina to Vietnam's Lady Trieu, from Cio-Cio-San to Frankenstein's second creature, suffering, madness, or death is the fate of far too many women in classic literature. Anna Karenina Isn't Dead undoes that.

'In this anthology of literary women, these women live. Do they have a happily ever after? You'll see. Do they have a happy-right-now? Oh yes.

'These are the reimagined tales of the famous, the infamous, the barely mentioned women in myths, poems and legends. These are the stories of the Lady in Black, Wendy Darling, Dido, and many more, each getting a better journey than the one she originally got.

'Here Anna Karenina and her literary kin are not dead.

'Very far from it.'  (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon The Other Olivia Tamara M. Bailey , Melbourne : Improbable Press , 2022 26576697 2022 single work novel crime

'Olivia Alexander (nee Sharp) thinks her biggest problem is discovering her husband's affair.

'Then a stranger accosts her on the street warning, "Don't sign anything." When Olivia reluctantly follows his advice, everything starts to fall apart. Suddenly assassins, safe houses, and ruthless global corporations are hew new reality, and she's running for her life.

'In a shadow world unknown to Olivia, Livvie Sharp's partner goes missing, someone tries to kidnap her little girl, and now she too is on the run as someone hunts her. Someone using her loved ones as weapons to bring her down.

'Then she meets the other Olivia.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon A Question of Time Jamie Ashbird , Melbourne : Improbable Press , 2019 18343834 2019 selected work short story detective

'Sherlock Holmes

'... whether he's a grimy student in 1980, a consulting detective in 47BCE, or a smitten neighbour in 1969, will always find his ...

'John Watson

'whether he is a military doctor in 1917, an angry Saxon with an axe in 1086, or a priest in 1603.

'A Question of Time is an illustrated journey through the ages told by our heroes, by their friends, and by a scorched manuscript.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon A Dream to Build a Kiss On Narrelle M. Harris , London : Improbable Press , 2018 16660646 2018 single work novella historical fiction detective

'John Watson, invalided army doctor and sometimes artist, and Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective, become flatmates and friends in contemporary London. Love grows too, despite past betrayals and present dangers—for where you have Holmes and Watson, there too are Moriarty and Moran. A Dream to Build a Kiss On explores love and family, trust and betrayal, brothers and brothers-in-arms, forgiveness and revenge, in an ongoing tale told 221 words at a time.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 y separately published work icon The Adventure of the Colonial Boy Narrelle M. Harris , London : Improbable Press , 2016 10060401 2016 single work novel detective romance historical fiction

'1893. Dr Watson, still in mourning for the death of his great friend Sherlock Holmes, is now triply bereaved, with his wife Mary's death in childbirth. Then a telegram from Melbourne, Australia intrudes into his grief. “Come at once if convenient." Both suspicious and desperate to believe that Holmes may not, after all, be dead, Watson goes as immediately as the sea voyage will allow. Soon Holmes and Watson are together again, on an adventure through Bohemian Melbourne and rural Victoria, following a series of murders linked by a repulsive red leech and one of Moriarty’s lieutenants. But things are not as they were. Too many words lie unsaid between the Great Detective and his biographer. Too much that they feel is a secret. Solve the crime, forgive a friend, rediscover trust and admit to love. Surely that is not beyond that legendary duo, Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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