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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    September 1991
  • Latest Book:
    July 2021
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Book List in Order: 6 titles





  • The whole purpose of magic is the fulfilment and intensification of desire, claims the ventriloquist-narrator as he tells his stories of love and catastrophe....



  • In this collection of short stories, the author dabbles in and out of the occult. The reader meets Mrs Da Silva a 65-year-old matriarch of Carnival's Rebel War Band who wins the heart of a postman, and a widow who commemorates the death of her hu...



  • An attraction to danger prompts Ella de Vries, a stunning obsidian-eyed beauty who dances with the Royal Ballet, to fall in love with Donny McLeod, the Dionysiac rebel and free spirit who 'believes in nothing'. It is the 1970s. They move into a house...



  • From Comrade Shakespeare McNab who enlists the help of La Diablesse to retrieve his faltering career at a Caribbean broadcasting station, to the fourteen-year-old English girl who develops a terror of infi nity; from the electrifying description of a...





Award-Winning Books by Pauline Melville

The Ventriloquist's Tale
1997 Costa Book Award -- First Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Pauline Melville has published 6 books.

Pauline Melville does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Master of Chaos and Other Fables, was published in July 2021.

The first book by Pauline Melville, Shape Shifter, was published in September 1991.

No. Pauline Melville does not write books in series.