Margaret Pearce Margaret Pearce i(A4138 works by) (a.k.a. Margaret Lorraine Pearce)
Also writes as: Jacquelyn Webb ; A. Pearce
Born: Established: 1940 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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1 y separately published work icon A Feminine Perspective Margaret Pearce , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2024 27458076 2024 selected work short story 'What protection do females have from the social culture moulding the humans they develop into? These fourteen tales celebrate the quiet courage within each woman’s heart.' (Publication summary) 
 
1 y separately published work icon Perennial Blooms Bee Williamson , Janice Williams , Margaret Pearce , Mary Louise Di Stasio , Meryl Tobin , Michele Revill , Nenia Tavrou , Shirley McGirr , Nenia Tavrou (editor), Melbourne : Perennial Poets Society of Women Writers Victoria , 2023 28077906 2023 anthology poetry
1 y separately published work icon More on the Soapbox Margaret Pearce , Warners Bay : Picaro Press , 2023 26896977 2023 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Victorian Weather Margaret Pearce , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2021 23742828 2021 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Not Mentioning Any Names Margaret Pearce , Port Adelaide : Ginninderra Press , 2020 20839001 2020 single work prose humour 'It’s not all beer, skittles and Dr Spock, this motherhood caper. Somewhere between the experts who theorise and the amateurs who practise is a wide deep gap. Experts have written a lot on how to raise children. In a free society, you pay your money and take your pick. Starting from the Good Book (the original spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child advocate) to the very latest volumes out on toddler taming, child psychology and emotional problems (the child’s, not yours). One of the interesting side effects completely ignored by experts is how raising children lowers mothers - right down. They are reduced to tears, tea and aspirin, hysterics, sherry, cigarettes, blunt instruments, bullying and blackmail. Some of the more fortunate are driven to sympathetic psychiatrists and rest homes. All this keeps the rest home industry healthy, ups the sales of something to fortify and simultaneously drown your problems in at supermarkets and liquor stores, and gives the experts on outer suburban neuroses plenty of material. Life with children is composed of confrontations, truces, compromises and intermittent battles. Suitable textbooks on survival of child raising might well include guerrilla warfare, unarmed combat and, of course, communications - handy for negotiating terms for truces, compromises, moratoriums, rescues of badly wounded psyches, egos and compensation payments when in the wrong (which is always). In the no-man’s-land of the outer suburban battlefields, this motherhood caper keeps going on (when will they ever learn?) and so do the battles. And unfortunately we don’t win ’em all.' (Publication summary)
 
1 y separately published work icon Catch Me If You Can Margaret Pearce , Atherton : Writers Exchange E-Publishing , 2019 25827790 2019 single work novel historical fiction

'In 1941, Darwin is bombed, and the war against the Germans and the Japanese gets alarmingly close. While those in the area are raising money for the war effort with backyard concerts, the kids on Bolton Road have their own ideas about how to help out. Notices around the town warn that loose talk kills. Are spies passing information to the enemies right under their noses? Mable convinces Nancy, Janet, Fred and Lennie that catching spies is the best way to do their part. But will their efforts catch the traitors...or make the kids targets?' (Publication summary)
1 Our Year of 1942 Margaret Pearce , 2016 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Do Nuns Wear Knickers? : True Stories of School Life and What We Really Learned 2016;
1 y separately published work icon Weekend Terror Margaret Pearce , Wallagoot : Custom Book Publications , 2015 9090782 2015 single work children's fiction children's

'WEEKEND TERROR In the sleepy coastal suburb of Willow Cove, Thorny, Lou and Happy spend much of their free time swimming and surfing. When they see a speedboat ram Mr. Wilson's dinghy, their early morning swim becomes the start of a weekend of adventure, mystery and terror. ... ' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Entrapment : ... And the Magic Ring Margaret Pearce , Belgrave : Custom Book Publications , 2015 9084288 2015 single work children's fiction children's fantasy

'Billy's grandmother moves to an Retirement Home for the elderly up in the hills. While cleaning her bush cottage for a tenant, Billy finds a ring among the rubbish. She slides it on her finger, quickly discovering she can talk and understand birds and animals, especially bossy ones like her grandmother's Siamese cat... Life will never be the same again.. 'Come on, ' the husky voice said crossly. 'We must hurry.' I stared at the cat. Did the voice come from the cat? The cat stared back. Grandmother always said Bast was intelligent, but talking cats! Was I going down with heat stroke? 'Bast?' 'Beloved of the Goddess, the ring has accepted you, ' the cat hissed. 'The ring, ' I repeated like an idiot. 'The ring...' the cat hissed. She stopped lashing her tail and stared at me with her mad crossed blue eyes. 'It gives you the power to understand and be understood by all creatures.' 'Like the Dr Doolittle who could talk to animals?' 'Never heard of him, ' the cat hissed. 'So I can understand cat language, ' I said. 'All creatures, ' the cat hissed.' (Publication summary)
1 Fang Margaret Pearce , 2015 single work short story horror
— Appears in: Positive Words , June vol. 14 no. 6 2015; (p. 13-16)
1 The Liberation of Managing Director Barton ... Margaret Pearce , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Positive Words , July vol. 14 no. 7 2015; (p. 11-14)
1 A Matter of Reverence Margaret Pearce , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: No Tea Tomorrow : Twenty-seven Award-winning Stories from the Stringybark Short Story Awards 2015;
1 y separately published work icon Jane and the Captain of Industry Margaret Pearce , Moonee Ponds : In Short Publishing Company , 2015 20831374 2015 single work novella

'Jane's husband's relation had inherited the wealth of his ancestor whose wife had slept with the king. In a bid to redirect the fortune to her husband, Jane encounters the dangers of changing the past.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 y separately published work icon Belinda and the Holidays It Rained Margaret Pearce , Atherton : Writers Exchange E-Publishing , 2014 9378406 2014 single work children's fiction children's fantasy

'The school holidays have a bad start. Belinda's father doesn't arrive home and it is raining. The news is that his car went over the cliff into the surf beach, but there is no body. Belinda, her mother and Kate stay at Amanda's family beach house to be near where the car went over. Belinda thinks that her father maybe got washed up further up the coastline and perhaps could be sick or ill somewhere in the back country. The girls discover how unusual their three kittens are. When held, all animal speech can be understood. So with the help of the kittens the three girls spend their wet school holidays searching. There is a helpful dog, grouchy possums and a dopey old horse involved before Belinda's father is found at last.' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Belinda and the Missing Will Margaret Pearce , Atherton : Writers Exchange E-Publishing , 2014 9378330 2014 single work children's fiction children's fantasy

'Belinda's unusual grandmother, with her unusual cat, Senna, is looking after Belinda while her parents are away. Belinda is thrilled because unusual things always happen when grandmother comes to visit... And this visit is no exception, first the girls learn of the missing Will that will save old Miss Higgins, then the petrified gryphon on Miss Higgins' roof accidentally gets woken. If a hungry, angry gryphon wasn't bad enough, Belinda and her friends learn that they must find the gryphon's missing ankh, because it might know the location of the Will, and it won't rest till the ankh is found...' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Belinda and the Witch's Cat Margaret Pearce , Atherton : Writers Exchange E-Publishing , 2014 9378270 2014 single work children's fiction children's fantasy

'Belinda is an only child, and lonely. When her mother has to leave home to recover from her illness, her grandmother arrives to look after her. Belinda discovers to her delight that she has a very unusual grandmother and her grandmother's cat, a superior Siamese called Senna is equally unusual. Belinda's life suddenly becomes full of friends and adventures. She learns to fly a moth eaten carpet to visit her mother, turn a big black bear back into her father and saves Senna from certain death. ' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Hole in the Sky Margaret Pearce , Belgrave : Custom Book Publications , 2014 8361740 2014 single work children's fiction children's

'What else could possibly go wrong?

'Geoff is sixteen and still at school.

'Julio is a seventeen year-old panel beater.

'Herbie is eighteen and already in the Air force.

'They have a common love - skydiving.

'Nothing seems to go right for Geoff - he has to go behind his over-protective mother's back to even watch. But no way she will permit him to jump!

'The boys' barbecue sparks a bushfire... and no one is pleased and when a jumper commits suicide, his mother hears part of a conversation... and jumps to the wrong conclusion. When a white powder she finds in his back pocket is not what she thinks, it is the last straw!

'Maybe he should leave home ...

'An adventure story set around the sport of skydiving!' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon A Belinda Robinson Novel Margaret Pearce , 2013 Atherton : Writers Exchange E-Publishing , 2013 9378247 2013 series - author children's fiction fantasy
1 y separately published work icon Rebecca and the Missing Heir Margaret Pearce , Atherton : Writers Exchange E-Publishing , 2013 8609722 2013 single work children's fiction children's

'When Lejon, a dwarf friend of George, is invited for dinner but doesn't arrive, two royal dwarf guards accuse George of stealing and betraying Lejon, their royal heir. In return they steal Willyum, threatening to keep him until George returns Lejon. ' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Dr Doolittle's Ring Margaret Pearce , Belgrave : Custom Book Publications , 2013 8360920 2013 single work children's fiction children's fantasy

'Billy’s grandmother moves to an retirement home for the elderly up in the hills. While cleaning her bush cottage for a tenant, Billy finds a ring among the rubbish. Sliding it onto her finger, she quickly discovers she can talk and understand birds and animals, especially bossy ones like her grandmother’s Siamese cat...

Life will never be the same again!' (Publication summary)
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