Marion Halligan

• Dec-1989
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• Aug-1990
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• Feb-1994
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Covering six generations of a New South Wales family, this saga weaves its way back and forth across the whole of the 20th century, gradually revealing more and more of the characters' lives and fitting them into the family history. The setting range...

• Oct-1998
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Most Australian writers have flirted with the short story form, and a surprising number have had collections published by UQP. Here is variety and style, thirty-four stories to be read and re-read, remembered, savoured and enjoyed - a gift of story. ...

• Mar-1999
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• Apr-2002
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Somewhere in the kaleidoscope between life and art sits Clare, whose story is Marion Halligan's The Fog Garden. Clare, like Marion, is a woman of a certain age whose much-loved husband of thirty-odd years has just died. And Clare, like Marion, is a n...

• Apr-2005
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On a promontory in a lake within a city built by the famed architect Walter Burley Griffin and his wife Marion Mahony, rises an elegant glass confection which is home to the best restaurant in the city - The Point. Here, in lamp-lit art deco splendou...

• Feb-2006
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A beautiful man, and all she can do is tinker with his prose For Cassandra, an editor, books are easy. It's real life that's the challenge: it doesn't sit quietly and let itself be fixed. Right now Cassandra's life seems far too heavy on the suspense...

• Mar-2008
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All is not as it seems in the calm, well-ordered streets of the nation's capital. After the turbulence of their courtship, Cassandra and the colonel have settled into wedded bliss - only to have it shattered by a death far too close to home. A friend...

• Jul-2010
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Marion Halligan returns to her heartland: the literary novel.It's Paris. Fanny and GÚrard fall in love in a way that surprises even them as their lives fill with good sex and loving companionship. But they long for a child to complete their happines...

• May-2012
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Why did Bluebeard kill his wives? Because that's what he did. It's a given. It's the plot. Until the lucky one, who is saved. The even more interesting question is: why did Mrs Bluebeard feel utterly unable to resist opening the door? Don't we all th...

• Oct-2016
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A successful lawyer, bon vivant, loving husband, and father has a heart attack and dies while swimming in the local pool. A man apparently happily married, yet with two divorces behind him and three puzzled children. In death it seems that he is not ...

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Covering six generations of a New South Wales family, this saga weaves its way back and forth across the whole of the 20th century, gradually revealing more and more of the characters' lives and fitting them into the family history. The setting range...