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2 13 y separately published work icon Secrets of the Sea Nicholas Shakespeare , London : Harvill Press , 2007 Z1410813 2007 single work novel Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. Twelve years on he must return to Australia to deal with his inheritance. - back cover (London, 2007 imprint)
1 13 y separately published work icon In Tasmania Nicholas Shakespeare , London : Harvill Press , 2004 Z1156480 2004 single work prose Shakespeare weaves his personal history and that of his forebears with the history of Tasmania from the time of European settlement onwards.
7 44 y separately published work icon Sixty Lights Gail Jones , London : Harvill Press , 2004 Z1136231 2004 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 15 units)

'Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is fascinated by light and by the new photographic technology. Her perception of the world is passionate and moving, revealed in a series of frozen images captured in the camera of her mind's eye showing her feelings about love, life and loss. In this confident, finely woven and intricate novel Jones has created an unforgettable character in Lucy; visionary, gifted and exuberant, she touches the lives of all who know her.' (Publication summary)
2 10 y separately published work icon Snowleg Nicholas Shakespeare , London : Harvill Press , 2004 Z1098069 2004 single work novel mystery A young Englishman visits Cold War Leipzig with a group of students and, during his brief excursion behind the Iron Curtain, falls for an East German girl who is only just beginning to wake up to the way her society is governed. Her situation touches him, but he is too frightened to help. He spends the next nineteen years pretending to himself that he is not in love until one day, with Germany now reunited, he decides to go back and look for her. But who was she, how will his actions have affected her, and how will he find her? All he knows of her identity is the nickname he gave her - Snowleg.
Nicholas Shakespeare's novel is a powerful love story that explores the close, fraught relationship between England and Germany, between a man who grows up believing himself to be a chivalrous English public schoolboy and a woman who tries to live loyally under a repressive regime. In her world not only is every move recorded, but a person's scent may be secretly bottled, labelled and stored away until such time as she needs to be traced. (Source: Trove)
4 4 y separately published work icon L'Enfant du Peuple Ancien Anouar Benmalek , ( trans. A. P. Riemer with title The Child of an Ancient People ) London : Harvill Press , 2003 Z959981 2000 single work novel historical fiction Deported to New Caledonia in 1872, Lislei, an Alsatian woman rescued from the turmoil of the Paris Commune, and Kader, an Arab prince, succeed in escaping aboard a ship bound for Australia. With them is an orphan boy, the last representative of his people, the Tasmanian Aboriginals.
1 7 y separately published work icon Camouflage Murray Bail , London : Harvill Press , 2001 Z668947 2000 selected work short story (taught in 1 units)

'The brilliant title story Camouflage tells the story of Eric Banerjee, an Adelaide piano-tuner sent north to defend Australia in 1942. Accompanying it is one of Bail’s masterly pieces of short fiction, The Seduction of My Sister, a weird and compelling account of sibling rivalry and love.'

Source: Text Publishing.
1 42 y separately published work icon Holden's Performance Murray Bail , London : Harvill Press , 2000 Z803463 1987 single work novel satire

'Holden's Performance is the story of Holden Shadbolt, a guileless and matter-of-fact innocent as he passes through the cities and landscape of Australia. His reassuring silent presence and photographic memory make him useful to men of power and women who appear to need his protection. He is surrounded by larger than life figures whose exploits and adventures Holden follows—ex-Corporal Frank 'Bloodnut' McBee, the scrap dealer who woos his mother; his uncle Vern, a shortsighted proofreader who likes facts and eating newspaper with is breakfast cereal; and the crippled artist Harriet, whose twists and curves appeal to Holden as he holds to his own unswervingly straight lines.' (Publication summary)
5 y separately published work icon A Jerk on One End : Reflections of a Mediocre Fisherman Robert Hughes , London : Harvill Press , 1999 Z1100115 1999 single work autobiography From book jacket 'Hughes traces his love of fishing back to his earliest boyhood on Sydney Harbor, Australia, and recounts the high and low points of his career with rod and reel - the first surge of triumph when he snagged a six-pound bonito, the shame of having his father catch him trout-fishing with live bait (the most perfidious failing in the eyes of every fly fisher), hair-raising shark tales he picked up on the Sydney waterfront'
6 8 y separately published work icon Midnight in Sicily Peter Robb , London : Harvill Press , 1998 Z799413 1996 single work prose travel Peter Robb, who lived in southern Italy for 15 years, tells the story of Sicily, its opulent coasts, its stark interior, its extraordinary art and rich food, and its layers of culture from east and west. Sicily is also the home of the mafia, and Midnight in Sicily shows the grip of organised crime on daily life in Italy's south and the mafia's ties to government in Rome, following the career of Giulio Andreotti–seven times prime minister of Italy who at the time was appealing a conviction for conspiracy to murder, but has since been acquitted of the crime. The book moves from art to crime to food with tremendous narrative verve and a mass of surprising detail. (Source: Pan Macmillan Australia)
8 8 y separately published work icon Eminence Morris West , London : Harvill Press , 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).
19 79 y separately published work icon Eucalyptus : A Novel Murray Bail , London : Harvill Press , 1998 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)
1 y separately published work icon The Listener Anne Telscombe , London : Harvill Press , 1968 Z962505 1968 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Miss Bagshot Goes to Tibet : A Novel Anne Telscombe , London : Harvill Press , 1962 10000952 1962 single work novel
1 y separately published work icon Miss Bagshot Goes to Moscow : A Novel Anne Telscombe , London : Harvill Press , 1960 Z962085 1960 single work novel humour
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