Shirley Hazzard

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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    March 1980
  • Latest Book:
    October 2021
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Book List in Order: 8 titles

  • The Transit of Venus

    The Transit of Venus is considered Shirley Hazzard's most brilliant novel. It tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women--seductio...

  • The Evening of the Holiday

    In the words of Time magazine, "A near perfect novel...a small masterpiece" by the author of The Great FirePassionate undercurrents sweep in and out of this eloquent novel about a love affair in a summer countryside in Italy and its inevitable end. I...

  • The Bay of Noon

    Long out of print, Shirley Hazzard's classic novel of love and memoryA young Englishwoman working in Naples, Jenny comes to Italy fleeing a history that threatened to undo her. Alone in the fabulously ruined city, she idly follows up a letter of intr...

  • Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories

    From the author of The Great Fire, a collection of stories about love and acceptance, expectations and disappointmentShirley Hazzard's stories are sharp, sensitive portrayals of moments of crisis. Whether they are set in the Italian countryside or su...

  • People in Glass Houses

    Only those who keep their wit and affections about them will survive the mass conditioning of the Organization, where confusion solemnly rules and conformity is king. As in our world itself, humanity prevails in the courage, love, and laughter of si...

  • The Great Fire

    The Great Fire is an extraordinary love story set in the immediate aftermath of the great conflagration of the Second World War. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their li...

  • Collected Stories

    Collected Stories includes both volumes of the National Book Awardâ€"winning author Shirley Hazzard’s short-story collections -- Cliffs of Fall and People in Glass Houses -- alongside uncollected works and two previously unpublished storiesShirley ...

  • The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard



Award-Winning Books by Shirley Hazzard

The Great Fire
2003 National Book Award -- Fiction
The Transit of Venus
1980 National Book Critics Circle Award -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Shirley Hazzard has published 8 books.

Shirley Hazzard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Collected Stories of Shirley Hazzard, was published in October 2021.

The first book by Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus, was published in March 1980.

No. Shirley Hazzard does not write books in series.
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