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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Shiver : A Novel
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'I can catalogue Antarctica by touch. The touch of air sucked dry on my cheek, the fur of a day-old seal pup, the touch of an iceberg, a blizzard, a lover, the touch of sweat at minus twenty-three, of a camera stuck to the skin on my face, of cold like glass cutting into my skin, of a snowflake, of a dead man, of a doctor's fingers on my inner thigh, of a tongue on my eye.

'Shiver tells the story of Fin, a young woman who gets the chance of a lifetime to go to Antarctica. Surrounded by the cruel beauty of the last great wilderness on earth, she finds herself transfixed by the power of the land. Travelling and living with a close-knit and idiosyncratic team, Fin learns the rules and taboos of community life in Antarctica, and then promptly breaks the strictest taboo of all - she falls in love. The consequences are shattering.

'Lyrical, haunting and sometimes painfully moving, Shiver is a first novel of great power and beauty.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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  • One of six books selected for the 2004 Books Alive promotion.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vintage Australia , 1997 .
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      Extent: xii, 273p.p.
      Description: port.
      ISBN: 009183449X
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Fourth Estate , 2022 .
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      Extent: 288p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 30 March 2022.
      ISBN: 9781460761878, 1460761871

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y separately published work icon Writing Belonging at the Millennium : Notes from the Field on Settler-Colonial Place Emily Potter , Bristol Chicago : Intellect , 2019 18882857 2019 multi chapter work criticism

'Writing Belonging at the Millennium brings together two pressing and interrelated matters: the global environmental impacts of post-industrial economies and the politics of place in settler-colonial societies. It focuses on Australia at the millennium, when the legacies of colonization intersected with intensifying environmental challenges in a climate of anxiety surrounding settler-colonial belonging. The question of what “belonging means is central to the discussion of the unfolding politics of place in Australia and beyond.

'In this book, Emily Potter negotiates the meaning of belonging in a settler-colonial field and considers the role of literary texts in feeding and contesting these legacies and anxieties. Its intention is to interrogate the assumption that non-indigenous Australians' increasingly unsustainable environmental practices represent a failure on their part to adequately belong in the country. Writing Belonging at the Millennium explores the idea of unsettled non-indigenous belonging as context for the emergence of potentially decolonized relations with place in a time of heightened global environmental concern.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Drawing Room : Amal Awad and Nikki Gemmel Waleed Aly (interviewer), 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , May 2012;
What do women want, in a literary sense and is it any different from what men want in a book? Simple questions with very complicated answers and to help solve the quandary, two female writers who appeared at the 2012 Sydney Writers' Festival are interviewed by Aly Waleed. [From the ABC webpage, with slight modification]
Lip Lit : Where to Find Strong Females in Literature? Emma Davidson , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: Lip Magazine 2011;
First Voice : Nikki Gemmell Looks Back on Writing Her First Book, Shiver Nikki Gemmell , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 5 November 2005; (p. 27)
Spread the Word Rosemary Sorensen , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 July 2004; (p. 21)
Lilliputian Satire Owen Richardson , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 May-1 June 1997; (p. rev 8)

— Review of The Prince Tim Richards , 1997 single work novel ; Shiver : A Novel Nikki Gemmell , 1997 single work novel
Warmed by Love and Lust on the Frozen Continent Lesley Lebkowicz , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 May 1997; (p. C10)

— Review of Shiver : A Novel Nikki Gemmell , 1997 single work novel
Southern Comfort: Love in a Cold Climate A. P. Riemer , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 10 May 1997; (p. 9s)

— Review of Shiver : A Novel Nikki Gemmell , 1997 single work novel
Passion and Reality on the Ice Margaret Anderson , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 21 May 1997; (p. 6)

— Review of Shiver : A Novel Nikki Gemmell , 1997 single work novel
Ice Fields Tess Brady , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 191 1997; (p. 44-45)

— Review of Shiver : A Novel Nikki Gemmell , 1997 single work novel
Spread the Word Rosemary Sorensen , 2004 single work column
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 28 July 2004; (p. 21)
First Voice : Nikki Gemmell Looks Back on Writing Her First Book, Shiver Nikki Gemmell , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 5 November 2005; (p. 27)
Drawing Room : Amal Awad and Nikki Gemmel Waleed Aly (interviewer), 2012 single work interview
— Appears in: ABC News [Online] , May 2012;
What do women want, in a literary sense and is it any different from what men want in a book? Simple questions with very complicated answers and to help solve the quandary, two female writers who appeared at the 2012 Sydney Writers' Festival are interviewed by Aly Waleed. [From the ABC webpage, with slight modification]
[Untitled] [The Age, 25 August 1998] Michelle Griffin , 1998 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 25 August 1998; (p. 3)
Strange Encounters Bernard Zuel , 2000 single work biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 March 2000; (p. 3)
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