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2 10 y separately published work icon Our Tiny, Useless Hearts Toni Jordan , Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2016 9155811 2016 single work novel

'Henry has ended his marriage to Caroline and headed off to Noosa with Mercedes' grade three teacher, Martha.

'Caroline, having shredded a wardrobe-full of Henry's suits, has gone after them.

'Craig and Lesley have dropped over briefly from next door to catch up on the fallout from Henry and Caroline's all-night row.

'And Janice, Caroline's sister, is staying for the weekend to look after the girls because Janice is the sensible one. A microbiologist with a job she loves, a fervent belief in the beauty of the scientific method and a determination to make a solo life after her divorce from Alec.

'Then Craig returns through the bedroom window expecting a tryst with Caroline and finds Janice in her bed, Lesley storms in with a jealous heart and a mouthful of threats, Henry, Caroline and Martha arrive back from the airport in separate taxis—and let's not even get started on Brayden the pizza guy.

'Janice can cope with all that. But when Alec knocks on the door things suddenly get complicated.

'Harnessing the exquisite timing of the great comedies to the narrative power and emotional intelligence for which she is famous, Toni Jordan brings all her wit, wisdom and flair to this brilliant, hilarious novel.' (Publication summary)
2 3 y separately published work icon The Second Coming : The Passion of Joe Panther Andrew Masterson , Pymble : Flamingo , 2000 Z668768 2000 single work novel crime

''There is no god,' I told him. Then I drove the syringe up into his nostril and straight through the side of his nose.' Joe Panther is a psychotic, alcoholic, violent, substance-abusing heroin dealer. He is also, he believes, Joshua Ben Pantera, born two thousand years ago, the son of Mary and the Lord God Yaweh Himself, not dead yet, the crucified Jesus: still around, abandoned by his Father, abused by the world, and as pissed off as hell.'

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2 8 y separately published work icon The Last Days : The Apocryphon of Joe Panther Andrew Masterson , Chippendale : Picador , 1998 Z377952 1998 single work novel crime

' Joe Panther is a man with many secrets. Dangerous secrets. He isa drug dealer. He is a killer. He is a private investigator. Above all, he is the messiah, fallen on hard times.

When a young woman is found crucified and decapitated in a melbounre inner-city church, the police suspect the local priest, a man with dark secrets of hiis own. The priest hires Panther to clear his name.

Soon Panther becomes both the hunter and the hunted.Nothing is as it seems-not even, perhaps, Panther's own sense of self.' (From back cover).
2 1 y separately published work icon La Balena Azzurra Stanislao Nievo , Milan : Arnoldo Mondadori , 1990 Z1323538 1990 single work novel The central character is a young Australian statistician. She is part of a research team studying the sounds of whales, off the coast of Sri Lanka.
3 2 y separately published work icon Le Isole del Paradiso : romanzo Stanislao Nievo , Milan : Arnoldo Mondadori , 1987 Z1321352 1987 single work novel historical fiction

The first part relates the story of the founding of the New Italy colony in Northern New South Wales in the 1880s, from its disastrous beginning in New Ireland (now part of Papua New Guinea.) The second part of the story has a contemporary setting.

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