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2 y separately published work icon The Erasure Initiative Lili Wilkinson , ( trans. Frederique Le Boucher with title Projet Amnesia ) Paris : Laffont , 2024 19523087 2020 single work novel young adult thriller

'I wake up, and for a few precious seconds I don't realise there's anything wrong.
The rumble of tyres on bitumen, and the hiss of air conditioning. The murmur of voices. The smell of air freshener. The cool vibration of glass against my forehead.

'A girl wakes up on a self-driving bus. She has no memory of how she got there or who she is. Her nametag reads CECILY. The six other people on the bus are just like her: no memories, only nametags. There's a screen on each seatback that gives them instructions. A series of tests begin, with simulations projected onto the front window of the bus. The passengers must each choose an outcome; majority wins. But as the testing progresses, deadly secrets are revealed, and the stakes get higher and higher. Soon Cecily is no longer just fighting for her freedom - she's fighting for her life.

'The acclaimed author of After the Lights Go Out returns with another compelling YA thriller - a timely novel about the intensity and unpredictability of human behaviour under pressure.' (Publication summary)

2 6 y separately published work icon Maybe the Horse Will Talk Elliot Perlman , ( trans. Carine Chichereau with title Et Si Le Cheval Se Mettait à Parler ) Paris : Laffont , 2021 17490749 2019 single work novel

'‘I am absolutely terrified of losing a job I absolutely hate.’

'Stephen Maserov has problems. A onetime teacher, married to fellow teacher Eleanor, he has retrained and is now a second-year lawyer working at mega-firm Freely Savage Carter Blanche. Despite toiling around the clock to make budget, he’s in imminent danger of being downsized. And to make things worse, Eleanor, sick of single-parenting their two young children thanks to Stephen’s relentless work schedule, has asked him to move out.

'To keep the job he hates, pay the mortgage and salvage his marriage, he will have to do something strikingly daring, something he never thought himself capable of. But if he’s not careful, it might be the last job he ever has…'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

4 28 y separately published work icon The Street Sweeper Elliot Perlman , ( trans. Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj with title La Mémoire est une Chienne Indocile ) Paris : Laffont , 2013 Z1796895 2011 single work novel 'How breathtakingly close we are to lives that at first seem so far away.

'From the civil rights struggle in the United States to the Nazi crimes against humanity in Europe, there are more stories than people passing each other every day on the bustling streets of every crowded city. Only some survive to become history.

'Recently released from prison, Lamont Williams, an African American probationary janitor in a Manhattan hospital and father of a little girl he can't locate, strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly patient, a Holocaust survivor who had been a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau. A few kilometres uptown, Australian historian Adam Zignelik, an untenured Columbia professor, finds both his career and his long-term romantic relationship falling apart. Emerging out of the depths of his own personal history, Adam sees, in a promising research topic suggested by an American World War II veteran, the beginnings of something that might just save him professionally and perhaps even personally. As these two men try to survive in early twenty-first-century New York, history comes to life in ways neither of them could have foreseen. Two very different paths - Lamont's and Adam's - lead to one greater story as The Street Sweeper, in dealing with memory, love, guilt, heroism, the extremes of racism and unexpected kindness, spans the twentieth century to the present, and spans the globe from New York to Melbourne, Chicago to Auschwitz.

'Epic in scope, this is a remarkable feat of storytelling.' (From publisher's website.)
3 37 y separately published work icon Three Dollars Elliot Perlman , ( trans. Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj with title Trois dollars ) Paris : Laffont , 2006 Z131955 1998 single work novel (taught in 2 units)

'At once humorous and dramatic, Three Dollars is about Eddie, an honest, compassionate man who finds himself, at the age of 38, with a wife, a child and three dollars. How did he get that way? And who is Amanda? He cared about people; he was, Amanda notwithstanding, a good husband, father and son. At any other time the world would have smiled on him. But this was the nineties and the world valued other things. Three Dollars chronicles the present breach of the social contract and its effect on a home near you. It is a brilliantly deft portrait of a man attempting to retain his humanity, his family and his sense of humour in grim and pitiless times: times of downsizing, outsourcing and privatising. It is about the legacy of Thatcherism and its effects on people and their relationships.' (Synopsis)

8 29 y separately published work icon Seven Types of Ambiguity Elliot Perlman , ( trans. Johan-Frédérik Hel Guedj with title Ambiguïtés ) Paris : Laffont , 2005 Z1050772 2003 single work novel thriller

'At once a psychological thriller and a social critique, Seven Types of Ambiguity is a novel of obsessive love in an age of obsessive materialism.

'Following years of unrequited love, an out-of-work schoolteacher decides to take matters into his own hands, triggering a chain of events no one could have anticipated.

'This is a story of impulse and paralysis, of empty marriages, lovers and a small boy, gambling and the market, of adult children and their parents, of poetry and prostitution, psychiatry and the law.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Faber ed.).

7 8 y separately published work icon Teranesia Greg Egan , ( trans. Pierre-Paul Durastanti with title Teranesie ) Paris : Laffont , 2001 Z855220 1999 single work novel science fiction

'Discover the mystery of the island of Teranesia, where peculiar biological evolution has created a world both beautiful and deadly. On the small uninhabited island of Teranesia, Prabir and his younger sister Madhusree live with their biologist parents, who are there to study the strange signs of evolutionary mutation in the island's butterfly population. But their peaceful time on Teranesia is cut short when a civil war breaks out in Indonesia, forcing Prabir and his family to flee. Twenty years pass, and Madhusree is now studying biology. She wishes to follow in the path of her parents, hoping to pick up where their research had been halted. Prabir, still feeling a great responsibility over his sister, highly advises her not to go back to Teranesia. But the mutations that happened during their time on the island overpower Madhusree's curiosity, and she goes against her brother's wishes. Struck with overwhelming feelings of responsibility, Prabir finds it as his duty to follow his sister, and travels back to Teranesia for the first time in twenty years. Not knowing what to expect, Prabir discovers the island to be more enchanting, and dangerous, than he could have ever imagined' (Publication summary)

19 79 y separately published work icon Eucalyptus : A Novel Murray Bail , ( trans. Michele Albaret-Maatsch )expression Paris : Laffont , 1999 Z279634 1998 single work novel (taught in 8 units)

Holland lived with his only daughter, Ellen, by a khaki river four hours west of Sydney. In spite of their remote location, tales of Ellen's beauty had traveled long distances and in the process inscribed a small legend. But Ellen's desirability was Holland's blindspot and finally he decided that the man who correctly named every eucalypt on his property would win the hand of his daughter. (Source: Trove)

8 8 y separately published work icon Eminence Morris West , ( trans. Christine Bouchareine )expression Paris : Laffont , 1998 Z505934 1998 single work novel

'As a young and outspoken priest, Luca Rossini was brutally tortured in an Argentine military prison, and then nursed back to health by the beautiful Isabel.

'Exiled to Rome to avoid scandal, Rossini becomes a cardinal and the pope's confidante. He is admired and feared by his colleagues, for he understands the Church, speak frankly and knows how to present his ancient faith to the media. When the pope becomes gravely ill and a successor must be chosen, Rossini takes a central role.

'In the midst of the political intrigue that surrounds the selection of a new pope, Isabel arrives in Rome—along with Rossini's daughter. Suddenly, Rossini must confront painful memories of Argentina and the scandalous passion of his long-suspended love affair.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).

9 12 y separately published work icon Distress Greg Egan , ( trans. Bernard Sigaud with title L'enigme de L'univers ) Paris : Laffont , 1997 Z381122 1995 single work novel science fiction

Distress is 'set in 2055 when the centre of Sydney is virtually deserted, as most work and entertainment is conducted at home via broadband optical fibre networks. Egan's main character, science journalist Andrew Worth, is sent to 'Stateless', a bioengineered Pacific coral island to interview a South African Nobel Prize winner who is intending to reveal a major breakthrough in human comprehension techniques. Various competing interests, however, descend on the island and Worth becomes an unwitting agent of change. Biotechnology implants, quantum physics, voluntary autism and mutant cholera are just some of the ingredients mixed into the mystery of who wishes to kill the Nobel Laureate, and for what purpose' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.54).

8 15 y separately published work icon Permutation City Greg Egan , ( trans. Bernard Sigaud with title La cite des permutants ) Paris : Laffont , 1996 Z455855 1994 single work novel science fiction (taught in 2 units) 'In Permutation City Egan has said that his main goal was "to take the idea of conscious software - whether it's some kind of scanned human duplicate, or some AI created from scratch - and push it to its logical conclusion'." The story involves human identities being 'loaded into computer memory banks where they become virtual people' (Colin Steele, SF Commentary No 77, p.53).
2 7 y separately published work icon The Grotto Coral Lansbury , ( trans. Manuela Andreota with title La Mariee de l'exil ) Paris : Laffont , 1991 Z86316 1988 single work novel
9 21 y separately published work icon Lazarus Morris West , ( trans. Eric Deschodt )expression Paris : Laffont , 1990 Z493179 1990 single work novel

'Pope Leo XIV battles enemies from within the Vatican and Islamic terrorists determined to assassinate him—the third title in the Vatican Trilogy.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).

13 9 y separately published work icon Masterclass Morris West , ( trans. Marie-Helene Dumas with title De main de maitre ) Paris : Laffont , 1989 Z205396 1988 single work novel

'When the daughter of an old Florentine family dies, she leaves a bequest to her lover Max Mather, an American art historian who has been managing the family's rare art collection. Mather is left with two priceless artworks by the great Renaissance master Raphael—without the family's knowledge. As Mather contrives to have the artworks discovered at auction in New York, big-time collectors, dealers and auctioneers are drawn into his game. In trying to out-deal the deal-makers, he becomes embroiled in a tangled web surrounding the brutal murder of a promiscuous Manhattan painter, Madeleine Bayard. The two stories intertwine in this fast-paced tale of intrigue and murder in the international art world.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Allen & Unwin, 2017).

5 y separately published work icon Captain James Cook John Hooker , ( trans. Pascal Raciquot-Loubet with title Capitaine Cook ) Paris : Laffont , 1988 Z1000421 1987 single work novel historical fiction
4 y separately published work icon Oriental Hotel Janet Tanner , ( trans. Robert Petit with title Oriental Hotel ) Montreal : Laffont , 1985 Z1531205 1984 single work novel historical fiction romance
34 96 y separately published work icon Schindler's Ark Thomas Keneally , ( trans. Francois Dupuis with title La liste de Schindler ) Paris : Laffont , 1984 Z866693 1982 single work novel Based on a true incident, this is the story of Oscar Schindler, a German industrialist who saved over one thousand Jews from the Nazis. Keneally's account is taken from the testimonies of dozens of Holocaust survivors. (Source: Trove)
5 1 y separately published work icon Stand We At Last : A Novel Zoe Fairbairns , ( trans. Marianne Véron with title Ce fut un long voyage ) Paris : Laffont , 1983 Z400780 1983 single work novel 'This family saga, first published in 1983 and still available through print-on-demand, follows five generations of women, from the mid-19th century to the 1970s.' (Publication summary)
 
1 y separately published work icon Ailleurs et demain Laffont (publisher), 1971 France : Laffont , 1971 Z1803385 1971 series - publisher
1 y separately published work icon Quatre aventures de Ajax, le chien sans peur Mary Elwyn Patchett , Paris : Laffont , 1958 Z1345664 1958 selected work children's fiction adventure children's
4 1 y separately published work icon The Green Helmet Jon Cleary , ( trans. Yvette Riviere with title Le Pilote au Casque Vert ) Paris : Laffont , 1958 Z92280 1957 single work novel
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