Gail Jones

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• The Death of Noah Glass

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  Miles Franklin 2019 · Shortlist

  The Death of Noah Glass

  The Death of Noah Glass

  Gail Jones · 63 when first published

  Novel · 336 pages · Family

  AIAI-generated summary:Just back from Sicily, an art historian is found dead in the pool of his Sydney apartment block, and his two grown children must face both their grief and a police inquiry into a sculpture stolen in Palermo.

• Sorry

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  Miles Franklin 2008 · Shortlist

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  Gail Jones · 52 when first published

  Novel · 218 pages · Historical, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:In the remote north-west of Australia an English anthropologist and his unstable wife raise a lonely daughter, who forms a sister-like bond with an Aboriginal girl before a violent death tears their lives apart.

• Dreams of Speaking

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  Miles Franklin 2007 · Shortlist

  Dreams of Speaking

  Dreams of Speaking

  Gail Jones · 51 when first published

  Novel · 213 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:In Paris to write about the hidden poetry of modern machines, a solitary young Australian woman befriends an elderly Japanese man who lived through Nagasaki's bombing and knows everything about Alexander Graham Bell.

• Sixty Lights

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  Miles Franklin 2005 · Shortlist

  Sixty Lights

  Sixty Lights

  Gail Jones · 49 when first published

  Novel · 249 pages · Historical, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:In Victorian times, a girl entranced by light and by photography, then a novelty, grows up in Australia and then lives in England and Bombay, seeing her life as a series of images.