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Born: Established: 1966 ; Died: Ceased: 1990
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1 y separately published work icon The Lotus Shoes Jane Yang , London : Sphere , 2025 28930976 2025 single work novel historical fiction

'Love and loss. Sisterhood and betrayal. Little Flower and Linjing's fates are bound together.

'As a child, Little Flower is sold to Linjing's wealthy family to become a muizai. In a fit of childish jealousy over her new handmaiden's ladylike bound feet and talent for embroidery, Linjing ensures Little Flower can never leave her to ascend in society.

'Despite their starkly different places in the Fong household, over the years the two girls must work together to secure both their futures through Linjing's marriage. As the two grow up, they are by turns bitter rivals and tentative friends.

'Until scandal strikes the family, and Linjing and Little Flower's lives are unexpectedly thrown into chaos. Linjing's fall from grace could be an opportunity for Little Flower - but will their intertwined fates lead to triumph, or tragedy for them both?' (Publication summary) 
14 7 y separately published work icon Lost Michael Robotham , Australia : Sphere , 2004 Z1185132 2004 single work novel crime thriller

'Mickey Carlyle disappeared, in a building with only five floors and eleven flats ? How is this possible? Everyone knows that Mickey Carlyle is dead and a man is in prison for her murder, except Detective Inspector Vincent Ruiz, who cannot stop searching for her and will not give up hope that she is still alive. Vincent is found one night, shot and with a picture of Mickey in his pocket; he seems to have amnesia. After being accused of faking amnesia and under investigation by his colleagues he retraces his steps, and relives that night with the help of a psychologist. Facts, not memories will tell him what happened to Mickey Carlisle. ' (Publisher's blurb)
5 y separately published work icon Neon Tough Tony Kenrick , New York (City) : G. P. Putnam's Sons , 1988 Z1205522 1988 single work novel crime adventure thriller
5 52 y separately published work icon Out of the Line of Fire Mark Henshaw , Ringwood : Penguin , 1988 Z370746 1988 single work novel

'To an Australian writer visiting Heidelberg, the brilliant young philosophy student Wolfi is a compelling character. From the start, the details of Wolfi's life are curious - from his inquisitorial father and passionate mother to the grandmother who pays for his sexual initiation with a prostitute and to his connections with the outlandish rogue Karl.

'As we are lured by Wolfi's obsession into the mysterious and erotic maze of this novel, we find nothing is as it appears.

'What in fact is fact and what in fiction is fiction?' (Publication summary)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Bushwackers Australian Song Book Jan Wositzky (editor), Dobe Newton (editor), South Yarra : Sphere , 1988 Z240373 1988 anthology poetry short story extract humour
1 y separately published work icon The Longest Wire Hugh Atkinson , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1982 Z265475 1982 single work novel historical fiction
2 1 y separately published work icon Billy Two-Toes' Rainbow Hugh Atkinson , Melbourne : Nelson , 1982 Z172188 1982 single work novel When Aboriginal Billy Two-Toes finds the opalised bones of a plesiosaurus, his tribe orders him to keep silent, because the remains are sacred. But ruthless American hit-man and former CIA operative Cutler intends to posess Billy's precious find at any price - even murder. Novel set in Coober Pedy opal fields and surrounding area; features several Pitjantjatjara Aboriginal characters.
4 y separately published work icon Oriental Hotel Janet Tanner , London : Century , 1984 Z1531205 1984 single work novel historical fiction romance
5 35 y separately published work icon The Ivory Swing Janette Turner Hospital , New York (City) : E. P. Dutton and Company , 1982 Z12644 1982 single work novel

'A professor's wife, Juliet, already feeling too far from the excitements of city life in her small Canadian college-town, obligingly journeys with husband David (and their two children) even further: to Kerala in southern India, for David's research sabbatical year.'  (Publication summary)
1 2 y separately published work icon The Duplicate Arthur Mather , London : Sphere , 1985 Z337153 1985 single work novel science fiction Ben Salman has been framed and arranges for a crazy scientist to make a duplicate of him to take the rap.(Loder, 1994).
1 14 y separately published work icon Yesterday's Men George Turner , London : Faber , 1983 Z111260 1983 single work novel science fiction

'On a futuristic Earth where the repressive leaders of the Ethical Culture attempt to control the aggressive instincts of the human race, part-Cyborg Peter Corrigan becomes a part of a secret government experiment.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Avon reprint).
1 y separately published work icon The Further Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Greg Matthews , New York (City) : Crown Publishers , 1983 Z365850 1983 single work novel adventure What became of Huckleberrry Finn after his famous adventures on the Mississippi with Jim? Now at last the story can be told, in a narrative that stretches from the familiar environs of St. Petersburg, Missouri, across the breadth of America to the shores of the Pacific. (Jacket blurb, 1983 edition.)
2 12 y separately published work icon Vaneglory : A Science Fiction Novel George Turner , London Boston : Faber , 1981 Z111572 1981 single work novel science fiction

"One of the few survivors of a destroyed human race, Will Santley of the newly emerging Ethical Culture is caught up in the mysterious biopolitical affairs of radioactive immortals and must remember his frightening past in order to survive."

Source: Bookseller's website.
2 y separately published work icon The Love Bite David Sale , London New York (City) : W. H. Allen , 1972 Z400411 1972 single work novel horror
2 Beyond the Galactic Rim A. Bertram Chandler , London : Allison & Busby , 1982 Z810991 1963 selected work short story science fiction
— Appears in: Legendy Prigranich'ya 2003; (p. 218-318)

Beyond the Galactic Rim (1963) is an early collection of Chandler's Rim Worlds stories comprising four stories, all published in various speculative fiction magazines in 1959. These are: 'Forbidden Planet' (first published in Fantastic Universe), 'Wet Paint' (Amazing), 'The Man Who Couldn't Stop' (Fantasy and Science Fiction), and 'The Key' (Fantastic).
3 Bring Back Yesterday A. Bertram Chandler , New York (City) : Ace Books , 1961 Z810988 1961 single work novel science fiction detective
— Appears in: Legendy Prigranich'ya 2003; (p. 87-217) 'Second Officer John Peterson is finished as far as the Galactic clippers are concerned. Branded a deserter, stranded on Carinthia and desperate for a job, there are few places left to go. Private detective Steve Vynalek needs Petersen. Has a fanatical scientist on the planet Wenceslaus really found a way to beat the time travel problem, a way to bring back yesterday?' (www.bertramchandler.com)
3 1 y separately published work icon Reverse Negative : A Novel of Suspense Andre Jute , Melbourne : Hyland House , 1979 Z913064 1979 single work novel thriller Kim Philby, the spy who betrayed a generation, has plotted his own death in a fiery helicopter accident. Immediately British Intelligence, the KGB, the CIA and Israeli Intelligence start searching for his 'insurance', a set of documents which points fatally accusing fingers at powerful men in high political, security and academic circles. (Source: 1979 Hyland House edition)
7 y separately published work icon Rendezvous on a Lost World When the Dream Dies A. Bertram Chandler , New York (City) : Ace Books , 1961 Z811018 1961 single work novella
— Appears in: Urania , May no. 619 1973; (p. 3-124) Le Vie Della Frontiera : Ciclo Galattico di A. Bertram Chandler 1979; (p. 321-420)
— Appears in: Gammel'nskaya Plague 2004; (p. 357-458) 'His was a dream few spaceman ever saw come true. In a second-hand, obsolete space ship, Kemp and his three comrades took off determined to set up a shuttle service between the planets at the rim of the galaxy. But trouble - in the form of two lost colonies, one inhabited by giant mechanical insects and the other by the descendants of a murderous pirate - threatened. Kemps crew began to wonder: just how much will one man sacrifice to realize a dream.'

[Source: www.bertramchandler.com]
8 3 y separately published work icon The Rim of Space A. Bertram Chandler , New York (City) : Avalon Books , 1961 Z810937 1961 single work novel science fiction
— Appears in: Cosmo : I Capolavori della Fantascienza , August no. 54 1966; (p. 3-93)
— Appears in: Science Fiction : The Gold Collection, Volume II 1996;
— Appears in: Legendy Prigranich'ya 2003; (p. 7-86)
— Appears in: A Galaxy Trilogy : Volume 4 2009;

A Rim Worlds story based around the adventures of Derek Calver, The Rim of Space sees Chandler's hero determined to join the Rim Runners in their exploration of desolate planets. He joins the crew of Lorn Lady and sets forth for Mellise, a planet inhabited by intelligent amphibians. He later visits Groller, where the natives have just qualified as humanoids; Stree, with its tea-loving lizards; and Tharn, the home of a pre-industrial civilization.
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