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3 17 y separately published work icon Fabulous Nobodies Lee Tulloch , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1990 Z179254 1989 single work novel
2 17 y separately published work icon Fairyland : A Novel Sumner Locke Elliott , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1990 Z17446 1990 single work novel

'The final book by Sumner Locke Elliott, the award-winning author of Careful, He Might Hear You.

Drawing heavily on Locke Elliott's own experiences, Fairyland charts the life of Seaton Daly, an aspiring writer coming to terms with his homosexuality in the repressive atmosphere of inner-city Sydney during the 1930s and '40s. Lonely and naive, Daly dreams of escaping to the 'promised land' of the United States.

Fairyland is an intimate, affecting, sometimes harrowing portrayal of a lifelong search for love. Sumner Locke Elliott's 'coming out' novel, it was first published in 1990, the year before his death.' (Publisher's blurb)
3 3 y separately published work icon Jodie's Journey Colin Thiele , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1990 Z34926 1988 single work novel young adult 'Twelve-year-old Jodie, disabled by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and no longer able to ride her beloved horse Monarch, faces a crisis when the two of them are alone at her remote Australia home and a devastating fire approaches'. (Source: Trove.)
2 70 y separately published work icon My Father's Moon Elizabeth Jolley , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1989 Z206273 1989 single work novel (taught in 1 units) 'Vera is young, awkward and naive. As a schoolgirl, she has her sheltered idealism, her Quaker boarding-school education, and the warm, enveloping sense of security of her parents. As a student nurse during the war, her transition into womanhood is rapid, painful and disastrous. And as an unmarried mother she flees from the nagging tension of her home and the hospital gossip to Fairfields, a place of poetry, music and of people with interesting lives and ideas. Quickly she learns it is otherwise. Yet, for Vera, there is always the moon — her companion, comforter, and the unbreakable link with her father...' (Publisher's blurb, 2008 Penguin publication.)
1 14 y separately published work icon The Bathing-Machine Called the Twentieth Century Nigel Krauth , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1988 Z198520 1988 single work novel
1 16 y separately published work icon Ilias Jim Sakkas , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1988 Z131470 1988 single work novel

'A young Greek fisherman, Ilias's first experience as a migrant in Australia in the 1920s is working on the docks as a 'skeb' labourer. He attempts to make his way, learning English from his workmates as he goes. With help from his Chinese friend Harry he buys a greengrocer's shop, but this venture later fails when his regular customers prefer to buy from an 'Aussie' further up the road. Pushed by prejudice and the Depression to a Victorian country town, he finds work in a timber mill. His young wife and three children settle down to a regular life. They are 'at home'.

'But Ilias longs for the sound and movement of the sea, and dreams of returning to his father's home as a success.

'Ilias is a powerfully written first novel of a young man's rites of passage in a land and time where assimilation is valued and multiculturalism unknown.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 5 y separately published work icon Farmer Schulz's Ducks Colin Thiele , Mary Milton (illustrator), New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1988 Z826547 1986 single work picture book children's humour Increased traffic from a nearby city makes the road that Anna crosses every day with her ducks increasing dangerous: Anna must solve the problem of how to cross the road safely.
4 52 y separately published work icon The Sugar Mother Elizabeth Jolley , New York (City) Sydney : Harper and Row , 1988 Z377530 1988 single work novel

'Edwin Page, a fussy middle-aged professor, no sooner bids farewell to his obstetrician wife, Cecilia, who accepted a fellowship abroad, when his new neighbors, Mrs. Botts and her sexy, twentyish daughter, Leila, arrive. Since they're locked out of their house, Edwin invites them in—and then can't get them to leave. He becomes obsessed with Leila and convinces himself that she is a perfect surrogate mother for the childless Cecilia.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Persea ed.).
27 170 y separately published work icon Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1988 Z359704 1988 single work novel (taught in 7 units)

'Oscar Hopkins is an Oxford seminarian with a passion for gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a Sydney heiress with a fascination for glass. The year is 1864. When they meet on the boat to Australia their lives will be forever changed ...'

(Source: Publisher's website)
4 41 y separately published work icon The Playmaker Thomas Keneally , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1988 Z347228 1987 single work novel historical fiction
7 5 y separately published work icon Seashores and Shadows Colin Thiele , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1988 Z288100 1985 single work novel young adult adventure

'Fourteen-year-old Joe had never heard of Wayward Island before he came to live with his cousin, Meg, and her family at Cockle Bay. Nor had he ever heard of Scarface! Wayward Island, out to sea, is a spellbinding place of windswept hills and beckoning seashores. Scarface is a huge, white pointer shark, a fearless killer, an ever-present yet elusive shadow. Terrible events carve the names of both Wayward Island and Scarface into the memories of Joe and Meg of seashores and shadows they will never forget.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 14 y separately published work icon Messages from Chaos Susan Johnson , Sydney : Harper and Row , 1987 Z383761 1987 single work novel 'On her twenty-ninth birthday, after a decade of obsession with somebody else's husband, Anna Lawrence is forced to admit that she actually is the person she was growing up to be. There may never be tickets to New York, or fame ... or even a husband. Susan Johnson writes of that generation of women raised between the 50s and the 80s.' (Publication summary)
16 15 y separately published work icon The Ladies of Missalonghi The Courtship of Missy Wright Colleen McCullough , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1987 Z375514 1987 single work novel
— Appears in: Tim; Ledi iz Missalongi 1993;

'The Hurlingford family have ruled the small town of Byron, nestled in the Blue Mountains, for generations. Wealthy, powerful and cruel, they get what they want, every time.

'Missy Wright lives with her widowed mother and crippled aunt in genteel poverty. Hurlingfords by birth, all three are victim to the family's rule of inheritance: the men take it all. Plain, thin and unforgivably single, it seems Missy's life is destined to be dreary.

'But then a stranger arrives in town. A divorcee from Sydney. And she opens Missy's eyes to the possibility of a happy ending.'

Source : publisher's blurb
2 8 y separately published work icon Waiting for Childhood Sumner Locke Elliott , New York (City) Sydney : Harper and Row , 1987 Z369830 1987 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Getting Rid of Edna Frieda Hughes , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1986 Z1099174 1986 single work children's fiction children's humour Chronicles the adventures of Miranda, an apprentice witch, who lives with her two witch aunts and an assortment of unusual animals.
1 y separately published work icon Seven Eggs Meredith Hooper , Terry McKenna (illustrator), New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1985 Z1000638 1985 single work picture book children's
1 2 y separately published work icon Ringarra : A Gothic Novel Coral Lansbury , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1985 Z50296 1985 single work novel

'This thoroughly satisfying, explicit contemporary Gothic concerns Katsie McLeod whose parents died on their Wyoming ranch when she was a child. Raised in Philadelphia by her independent Quaker aunt, Katsie is getting her MBA at Wharton where she meets Bob Waterson, a business whiz from Australia. On a visit to his home, Bob takes Katsie to the grand, isolated estate of Ringarra to meet the remarkable head of the company he works for. Katsie is obsessed by ruthless, magnetic Michael Taverner, feeling controlled by him in a way utterly alien to her self-image as a thoroughly liberated woman. The twist in this modern Gothic, besides its trappings and its freely acknowledged sexual impetus, is Katsie's awareness of and struggle with the side of her that would choose obsession. She and Bob are further endangered when they uncover the complex fraud Taverner is engaged in, and Katsie must reach far back in her memory for the strength to pull free from his evil hold.'

Source: Publishers Weekly https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-015516-2 
10 10 y separately published work icon A Creed for the Third Millennium Colleen McCullough , Sydney : Harper and Row , 1985 Z382285 1985 single work novel
6 130 y separately published work icon Illywhacker Peter Carey , New York (City) : Harper and Row , 1985 Z359598 1985 single work novel (taught in 2 units) In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national character. (Source: Trove)
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