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Gail Jones

Australia (b.1955)

Gail Jones teaches in the department of English, Communications and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia.

Genres: Literary Fiction

Novels

   Black Mirror (2002)
   Sixty Lights (2004)
   Dreams of Speaking (2006)
   Sorry (2007)
   Five Bells (2011)
   A Guide to Berlin (2016)
   The Death Of Noah Glass (2018)
   Our Shadows (2020)

Collections

The House of Breathing (1992)
Fetish Lives (1997)

Awards

	The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2004) : Sixty Lights
	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2006) : Dreams of Speaking
	Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (2008) : Sorry
	International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2008) : Dreams of Speaking

Gail Jones recommends

Shell (2018)
Kristina Olsson
"A beguiling, original, and beautifully written imagining of Sydney of the sixties."

Driving Into the Sun (2019)
Marcella Polain
"Original and brilliantly true."

Typhoon Kingdom (2019)
Matthew Hooton
"Brilliantly original, persuasive, revelatory and affecting."

Friends & Dark Shapes (2021)
Kavita Bedford
"Such a vivid geography: this is a work of smart intensities, witty sorrow and wise coming-to-terms with grief. Astute, wry and beautifully tender."

Everyday Madness (2021)
Susan Midalia
"A poignant potrait of suffering within marriage and the ties that bind; wise, witty and humane."

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