Elizabeth Jolley

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books
  • First Book:
    November 1984
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • Miss Peabody's Inheritance

    A lonely, middle-aged Englishwoman, bound to her bedridden mother and her clerical job, becomes enthralled by her correspondence with Australian novelist Diana Hopewell and by the novel that Diana is writing in her letters...

  • Mr. Scobie's Riddle

    "A dazzling comic novel—a delightful romp and a blistering satire. “Reading Jolley makes one feel alive.”—Lemony Snicket.

    After an unplanned admission to a nursing home, Mr. Scobie must protect himself and his dream...

  • Foxybaby

    Alma Porch, novelist and aspiring dramatist, is hired to teach a course in Trinity College's "Better Body Through the Arts" summer program for overweight adults. On the rundown campus in the remote Australian outback, Alma is surrounded by starving m...

  • Milk and Honey

  • The Well

    Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the desert...

  • Woman in a Lampshade

  • Jolley

    A combination of Jolley's two short story collections, Five Acre Virgin and The Travelling Entertainer, these stories focus on people overcoming or being overcome by life's challenges. They are wise, funny, and often perverse works by a unique author...

  • The Sugar Mother

    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year: a witty and sophisticated classic by one of Australia's most daring and entertaining novelists. Edwin Page, a fussy middle-aged professor, no sooner bids farewell to his obstetrician wife, Cecilia, who accep...

  • The Newspaper of Claremont Street

    This is the story of an old cleaning woman -- known as “Weekly” or “The Newspaper” to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she works -- who dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present. This new edition o...



  • My Father's Moon

  • Palomino

    This first novel centres around the relationships between two women, one a mature landowner, the other younger and previously married. Set on an Australian farm with Palomino horses, the novel explores the understanding between the two women them as ...

  • Stories

    A combination of Jolley's two short story collections, Five Acre Virgin and The Travelling Entertainer, these stories focus on people overcoming or being overcome by life's challenges. They are wise, funny, and often perverse works by a unique author...

  • Cabin Fever

    A novel made up of one woman's recollections of her youth, including her time as a trainee nurse, her work in a maternity clinic and then in a girl's tyrannical boarding school, and finally her job in Glasgow, where she enters into a love affair with...

  • The Orchard Thieves

  • The Vera Wright Trilogy

    This moving masterpiece by one of Australia’s leading novelists -- now in its entirety -- inaugurates Persea’s series of Elizabeth Jolley revivals. Set in 1940s wartime England, the trilogy follows young Vera, who leaves her cultivated Midlands h...

  • An Innocent Gentleman

  • The George's Wife

  • An Accommodating Spouse

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Elizabeth Jolley has published 18 books.

Elizabeth Jolley does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The George's Wife, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Elizabeth Jolley, Miss Peabody's Inheritance, was published in November 1984.

No. Elizabeth Jolley does not write books in series.
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