Jim Anderson Jim Anderson i(A33457 works by) (a.k.a. James Anderson)
Born: Established: 1937
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
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1 y separately published work icon Chipman's African Adventure Jim Anderson , Bellingen : Valentine Press , 2015 8298205 2015 single work prose travel

'Chipman Smith is still in the closet when he arrives at the Hornbill Palace Hotel at Tlula Leisure Beach in Bomzawe in 1972, but he is well and truly out of it by the end. Or is he? Mr Smith will never be the same again, and neither will you, after reading Chipman’s African Adventure. This blackly comic tale balances throughout on the edge of laughter. Crescendos of absurdity and high camp drama supplant and transcend each other with accelerating speed.' (Publication summary)

1 The Story of Oz Richard Walsh , Richard Neville , Jim Anderson , Felix Dennis , Louise Ferrier , Geoffrey Robertson , 2006 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 18-19 March 2006; (p. 18-23)
A collection of individually written pieces by Richard Walsh, Richard Neville, Jim Anderson, Felix Dennis, Geoffrey Robertson and Louise Ferrier on the genesis of the two Oz magazines (1963-1970 and 1967-1973) and the subsequent obscenity trials in Australia and England.
1 Pleasure Beach (from a Work-in-Progress) Jim Anderson , 1993 extract
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 57 1993; (p. 45-48)
1 18 y separately published work icon Billarooby Jim Anderson , New York (City) : Ticknor and Fields , 1988 Z413148 1988 single work novel

'After the mysterious death of his grandfather, 11-year-old Lindsay Armstrong and his family leave England for a new life in New South Wales. Property is bought in remote Billarooby, a small settlement on the Lachlan River. It is 1942. The war is far away, but a stranger the boy chases from the farm, turns out to be a young Japanese soldier escaped from a nearby POW camp. His witness of the brutal recapture of the prisoner, triggers the horrific memory of a festering family secret involving both himself and his tyrannical father. The trouble in Billarooby has just begun. Lindsay acquires a picture book about ancient samurai warriors and their Code of Bushido. He comes to believe that the prisoners wish for nothing but to re-join the Emperor and regain their honour, something he feels is lacking in the local world that surrounds him.

'Lindsay is not the only one obsessed with the prisoners. The district's paranoid fantasies of mass escape are decidedly blacker than Lindsay's imaginings. Racial tensions erupt as the great drought grips and threatens to destroy the once flourishing farm. Vigilantism combined with inability to tackle the truth about the Armstrong family's darkest past, drive Lindsay's parents to desperate measures and bouts of madness. For Lindsay, it's a coming-of-age of great poignancy as the story reaches its climax on the dried-up river bed of the Lachlan.' (Publication summary)

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