Lisa Bennett Lisa Bennett i(A95377 works by)
Also writes as: Lisa L. Hannett
Born: Established: 1977 ;
Gender: Female
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1 Ebbtide Lisa L. Hannett , 2023 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: The Fortunate Isles 2023;
1 Rewild Lisa L. Hannett , 2023 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: The Fortunate Isles 2023;
1 Shrithing Sandwards Lisa L. Hannett , 2023 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: The Fortunate Isles 2023;
1 Watersleeves Lisa L. Hannett , 2023 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: The Fortunate Isles 2023;
1 The Widows Guild Lisa L. Hannett , 2023 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: The Fortunate Isles 2023;
1 A Tanglesmithed Tale Lisa L. Hannett , 2023 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: The Fortunate Isles 2023;
1 The Escape Lisa L. Hannett , 2023 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: The Fortunate Isles 2023;
1 The Honey Stomach Lisa L. Hannett , 2023 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: The Fortunate Isles 2023;
1 y separately published work icon The Fortunate Isles Lisa L. Hannett , United Kingdom (UK) : Egaeus Press , 2023 26269444 2023 selected work short story

'The Fortunate Isles collects fourteen tales of salt-crusted weirdness from the rugged, cold-clime harbour village of Barradoon...

'Barradoon: the limit of worldly navigation; stronghold of sea-myths and ancient forces; a place of simmering tension and ruthless vengeance meted out by human and inhuman alike.

'These densely wrought, boundlessly inventive stories form, in their totality, a singularly strange mosaic novel of sorts - ever twisting and writhing like a storm-charged ocean. Yet they are never out of the meticulous control of Lisa Hannett's masterly storytelling.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Fairy Tales and Fever Dreams : Three Tales of Self-discovery Lisa Bennett , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 453 2023; (p. 36)

— Review of Fed to Red Birds Rijn Collins , 2023 single work novel ; How to Be Remembered Michael Thompson , 2023 single work novel ; Compulsion Kate Scott , 2023 single work novel
'On the surface, there is little connection between these three début novels. Rijn Collins’s Fed to Red Birds (Simon & Schuster, $32.99 pb, 247 pp) sketches an intimate portrait of migration, beautifully illustrating the migrant’s immersion within and isolation from their adopted land. Elva, a young Australian woman, hopes to remain in Iceland, her absent mother’s home country, despite the unique challenges it presents her. Michael Thompson’s How to be Remembered (Allen & Unwin, $32.99 pb, 344 pp) poses an intriguing metaphysical question: what happens if, each year on his birthday, every trace of one boy’s existence is erased? How can a person survive when nobody, not even his parents, knows who he is? Tommy Llewellyn is determined to find the answer and outfox this universal reset. Kate Scott’s Compulsion (Hamish Hamilton, $32.99 pb, 279 pp) revels in music, drugs, food, fashion, and hedonism. Lucy Lux attempts to uncomplicate her chaotic partying lifestyle by escaping to a remote seaside town she remembers from her childhood, where her passions and problems blaze anew. Despite their many differences, these are all essentially stories of self-discovery, coming of age, and obsession.' 

(Introduction)

1 Choirs of Reform : Jane Rawson’s Topical Allegory Lisa Bennett , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 441 2022; (p. 27)

— Review of A History of Dreams Jane Rawson , 2022 single work novel

'Allegories can be divisive. They are inherently deceptive, forever speaking with forked tongues. Animal Farm both is and isn’t a fairy story about talking pigs. Spenser’s Faerie Queene isn’t just an epic poem about the Redcrosse Knight’s chivalric virtues. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe isn’t merely a fantasy about plucky children conquering a malicious ice queen. Some readers enjoy being literary archaeologists fossicking beneath a narrative’s surface for deeper meaning. There is a thrill in peering through a story’s topsoil, discovering the many-layered substrata beneath it, seeing the author’s politics supporting the words. Others prefer texts without overt messages. To them, as Barthes puts it, the writer should be ‘dead’. Let readers engage with the work on their own terms. Let the book speak for itself.' (Introduction)

1 The Wail in Them Woods Lisa L. Hannett , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Songs for Dark Seasons 2020; (p. 179-194)
1 Blues Eater Lisa L. Hannett , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Songs for Dark Seasons 2020; (p. 147-162)
1 Surfacing Lisa L. Hannett , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Songs for Dark Seasons 2020; (p. 125-136)
1 Four Facts about the Ursines Lisa L. Hannett , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Songs for Dark Seasons 2020; (p. 67-78)
1 A Grand Old Life Lisa L. Hannett , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Songs for Dark Seasons 2020; (p. 53-66)
1 Soft Sister Sixty-six Lisa L. Hannett , 2020 single work short story
— Appears in: Songs for Dark Seasons 2020; (p. 25-36)
1 By Touch and by Glance Lisa L. Hannett , 2020 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Songs for Dark Seasons 2020; (p. 195-264)
1 Deep in the Drift, Spinning Lisa L. Hannett , 2020 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Beneath Ceaseless Skies , 10 September no. 312 2020; The Fortunate Isles 2023;
1 Out at the Shillingate Isles Lisa L. Hannett , 2020 single work short story fantasy
— Appears in: Bitter Distillations : An Anthology of Poisonous Tales 2020; (p. 137-164) The Fortunate Isles 2023;
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