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3 2 y separately published work icon The Sandpit Nicholas Shakespeare , London : Harvill Secker , 2020 19677821 2020 single work novel thriller

'A sophisticated literary thriller in the vein of Le Carré and William Boyd involving the disappearance of a nuclear scientist in Oxford.

'When John Dyer returns to Oxford from Brazil with his young son, he doesn't expect to find them both in danger. His time living on the edge as a foreign correspondent in Rio is over.

'Yet the rainy streets of this English city turn out to be just as treacherous as those he used to walk in the favelas. Leandro's schoolmates are the children of influential people, among them an international banker, a Russian oligarch, an American CIA operative and a British spook. As they congregate round the sports field for the weekly football matches, the network of alliances and covert interests soon becomes clear to Dyer. But it is a chance conversation with an Iranian nuclear scientist, Rustum Marvar, father of a friend of Leandro, that sets him onto a truly precarious path.

'When Marvar and his son disappear, several sinister factions seem acutely interested in Marvar's groundbreaking research at the Clarendon Lab, and what he might have told Dyer about it - especially as Dyer was the last person to see Marvar alive.' (Publication summary)
3 15 y separately published work icon When the Night Comes Favel Parrett , Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2014 7445662 2014 single work novel

'The hauntingly beautiful story of a young girl transformed by the power of kindness from award-winning author Favel Parrett.

'Running away from the mainland was supposed to make their lives better. But, for Isla and her brother, their mother's sadness and the cold, damp greyness of Hobart's stone streets seeps into everything.

'Then, one morning, Isla sees a red ship. That colour lights her day. And when a sailor from the ship befriends her mother, he shares his stories with them all - of Antarctica, his home in Denmark and life onboard. Like the snow white petrels that survive in the harshest coldest place, this lonely girl at the bottom of the world will learn that it is possible to go anywhere, be anything. But she will also find out that it is just as easy to lose it all.

'For Isla, those two long summers will change everything.

'Favel Parrett delivers an evocative and gently told story about the power fear and kindness have to change lives.' (Publication summary)
3 34 y separately published work icon Past the Shallows Favel Parrett , Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2011 Z1763990 2011 single work novel 'Harry and Miles live with their father, an abalone fisherman, on the south-east coast of Tasmania. With their mum dead, they are left to look after themselves. When Miles isn't helping out on the boat they explore the coast and Miles and his older brother, Joe, love to surf. Harry is afraid of the water. Everyday their dad battles the unpredictable ocean to make a living. He is a hard man, a bitter drinker who harbours a devastating secret that is destroying him. Unlike Joe, Harry and Miles are too young to leave home and so are forced to live under the dark cloud of their father's mood, trying to stay as invisible as possible whenever he is home. Harry, the youngest, is the most vulnerable and it seems he bears the brunt of his father's anger.' (From the publisher's website.)
3 11 y separately published work icon You Gotta Have Balls Lily Brett , Sydney : Picador , 2005 Z1217844 2005 single work novel humour "Ruth Rothwax, the heroine of Lily Brett's Too Many Men, is back. The proprietor of a successful letter-writing business, Ruth has just branched out into a new greeting-card line. But it's not easy. Her father, Edek, is driving her crazy at the office. And the very people she thought would be most supportive - other women - are not. Instead of acting in one another's best interests, the women are catty and competitive, behaviors Ruth swears that she will never imitate. Until she meets the one woman who turns her aspirations of sisterly solidarity - and her life - upside down." "Fresh off the plane from Poland, Zofia is a buxom, sixty-something femme fatale with a talent for making balls. Meatballs, that is. When Edek asks his savvy daughter to fund his friend Zofia's restaurant, how can Ruth say no? But Ruth knows that gleam in Zofia's eye, and it means trouble is on the way for all of them." (Publisher's blurb).
4 12 y separately published work icon Coldwater Mardi McConnochie , Pymble : Flamingo , 2001 Z910583 2001 single work novel historical fiction romance

'The year is 1847. Three sisters named Charlotte, Emily and Anne are all writers. In this fiction, though, the family name is not Bronte, but Wolf, and they live far from the Yorkshire moors, in the penal colony of Coldwater - everything changes when Finn O'Connel is appointed valet at the family cottage.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
4 9 y separately published work icon Miles Walker, You're Dead Linda Jaivin , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 1999 Z514798 1999 single work novel humour

'"My name is Miles Walker. Remember it. I’m keen on immortality. I’ve got to be. I’m twenty-three years old. I’m the best painter of my generation. And I’ve got four hours to live."

'On the eve of the millennium, Miles Walker has problems. His flatmate Thurston, a moody medievalist, thinks it would be a good career move for Miles to die young. Miles' best friend, the pre-conceptual artist ZakDot, agrees – and the chainsaw-wielding Maddie seems only too happy to help. Then along comes Destiny, the enigmatically beautiful politician who hates art but likes Miles. Now the others really want to kill him. By the time bare buttocks are squeaking over the blackheart sassafras of the prime ministerial dining table, it looks like Miles' fate is sealed.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
6 16 y separately published work icon Rock n Roll Babes from Outer Space Linda Jaivin , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 1996 Z259856 1996 single work novel science fiction 'Baby, Doll and Lati, three spunky alien babes, are trapped on Nufon, the most boring planet in the entire yoon. They steal a spaceship and arrive in Sydney, Planet Earth, in search of sex, drugs and rock n roll. When the babes abduct Jake, a minor rock star and dread-headed charmer, and toss him in their saucer's sexual experimentation chamber, the global warming begins. The babes form a band, and rocket to rock n roll stardom. Trouble is, Jake and Baby are falling in love, a posse of Nufonians is headed for Earth, the US military is on the case and Eros the talking asteroid wants to dive into the mosh as well. The babes are planning their biggest gig, but can they save the world too?' Source: publisher's website.
10 27 y separately published work icon Eat Me Linda Jaivin , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 1995 Z43589 1995 single work novel

'Julia is a photographer, Chantal edits a fashion magazine, Helen is a feminist academic and Philippa is a writer. These four friends haunt the cafés of inner-city Sydney, eyeing the passing talent and swapping outlandish tales. Sexy, intelligent, predatory, they are women of their time—but can we believe their wild and wicked descriptions of their erotic exploits?' (Publication summary)
1 y separately published work icon Bild-Erotik-Bibliothek Hoffmann und Campe (publisher), 1984 Hamburg : Hoffmann und Campe , 1984-2006 Z1803029 1984 series - publisher novel
2 35 y separately published work icon The Bay of Noon Shirley Hazzard , London : Macmillan , 1970 Z392671 1970 single work novel

'The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place.

'Among the protagonists is Jenny, young and pretty, who has come to Naples in flight from a sombre drama, unaware that a larger drama waits her there.

'She has an introduction to a Neapolitan woman, and one day she idly follows it up. This is her leap through the looking glass.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2 3 y separately published work icon A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, in New South Wales : Including an Accurate Description of the Situation of the Colony; of the Natives; and of its Natural Productions Watkin Tench , London : 1793 Z824151 1793 single work prose travel
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