Editions
‘Another new novel by Rodney Hall is like a pitcher of freshly mixed margaritas to a confirmed alcoholic. It’s like: “Go away and just let me alone with this book!” You just have to wonder about Rodney Hall. He’s more like a dervish than a writer. It is Hall’s gift for taut rhythms, predicaments, mystery and a sense of danger that make the writing in his novels so captivating.’
- Carolyn See,The Washington Post
Novels
The Ship on the Coin
UQP 1970
A Place Among People
UQP 1975, 1985
Just Relations
Penguin (Aust) 1982
Viking (USA) 1982
Allen Lane (UK) 1982
Penguin (USA)
Penguin (UK)
Presses de la Renaissance (France) as In Memoriam
Simon & Schuster / Fireside (USA) 1988
Picador (Aust) 2000
Allen & Unwin / House of Books (Aust) 2012
Kisses of the Enemy
Penguin (Aust) 1987
Farrar Straus & Giroux (USA and Canada) 1988
Faber & Faber (UK) 1988, 1990
Simon & Schuster / Fireside (USA) 1990
Captivity Captive
Farrar Straus & Giroux (USA and Canada) 1987
Faber & Faber (UK) 1987, 1989
McPhee Gribble (Aust) 1988, 1989
Simon & Schuster / Fireside (USA) 1989 (?)
Fisher Verlag (Germany) as Gefangen (h.back + paperback) 1990
Författarförlaget (Sweden) as De Döda Skall Tala
Klim (Denmark) as Paradis
Presses de la Renaissance (France) as Secrets Barbares 1990
[included in the Yandilli Trilogy / A Dream More Luminous than Love.]
L'Arbre Vengeur (France) as Secrets Barbares 2020
The Second Bridegroom
Farrar Straus & Giroux (USA and Canada) 1991
Faber & Faber (UK) 1991, 1992
McPhee Gribble (Aust) 1991, 1992
Simon & Schuster / Fireside (USA) 1992 (?)
Fisher Verlag (Germany) as Der Zweiter Bräutigam 1993
Le Fil Invisible (France) as Le Second Fiancé
[included in the Yandilli Trilogy / A Dream More Luminous than Love.]
The Grisly Wife
Farrar Straus & Giroux (USA and Canada) 1993
Faber & Faber (UK) 1993, 1994
McPhee Gribble (Aust) 1993
Fischer Verlag (Germany) as Das Schaurige Weib 1995
Editions Payot-Rivages (France) as L’Epouse
[included in the Yandilli Trilogy / A Dream More Luminous than Love.]
The Yandilli Trilogy / A Dream More Luminous that Love
Picador (Aust) 1994, 1994
Farrar Straus & Giroux (USA) 1994
Faber & Faber (UK) 1994
The Island in the Mind
Picador (Aust) 1996, 1997
Granta (UK) 1997, 1998
The Day we had Hitler Home
Picador (Aust) 2000, 2001
Granta (UK) 2001, 2002
Alianza (Spain) 2003
Temas e Debates (Portugal) 2005
The Last Love Story
Picador (Aust) 2004
Love without Hope
Picador (Aust) 2007
A Stolen Season
Picador (Aust) 2018
Short Fiction
Silence
Pier 9 / Murdoch Books (Aust) 2012
Memoir
Popeye never told you
Pier 9 / Murdoch Books (Aust) 2010
Short Fiction
Short Fiction
Non-fiction
Focus on Andrew Sibley
UQP (Aust) 1968
J.S.Manifold, an introduction to the man and his work
UQP 1978
Australia: Image of a Nation 1850-1950 (with David Moore)
Collins (Aust) 1983
PR (Aust) 1989
Home: A Journey through Australia
John Murray (UK) 1988
Minerva (Aust) 1988, 1990
Sydney Harbour (with David Moore)
Chapter & Verse (Aust) 1995
An Australian Place (with David Moore)
Chapter & Verse (Aust) 1997
Abolish the States!
Pan (Aust) 1999, 2000
1904: Korea Through Australian Eyes
(bi-lingual English / Korean edition) with photographs by George Rose
Kyobo Books (Republic of Korea) 2004
Stage works
Whispers (libretto, music by Andrew Ford)
Seymour Group, Sydney,
recording 1991
A Return to the Brink (play)
Melbourne Festival 2001
Currency Press (Aust) 2001
Dry River Run (opera, music by Paul Dean)
Queensland Conservatorium of Music,
Brisbane 2018
Poetry collections
Penniless till Doomsday
Outposts (UK) 1962
Forty Beads on a Hangman’s Rope
Wattle Grove Press (Aust) 1963
Eyewitness
South Head Press (Aust) 1967
The Autobiography of a Gorgon
F.W.Cheshire (Aust) 1968
The Law of Karma
Australian National University Press (Aust) 1968
Heaven, in a way
UQP (Aust) 1970
A Soapbox Omnibus
UQP (Aust) 1972
Selected Poems
UQP (Aust) 1975, 1976
Black Bagatelles
UQP (Aust) 1980, 1981
The Most Beautiful World
UQP (Aust) 1982, 1983
The Owner of My Face
Paperbark Press (Aust) 2002
Anthologies
New Impulses in Australian Poetry (with Thomas W. Shapcott)
UQP (Aust), 1968, 1969
Stories from Australia (bi-lingual English / Bahasa Malaysia edition)
BMP (Malaysia) 1977
The Australians (text with photographs)
Lloyd O’Neill (?)
The Collins Book of Australian Poetry
Collins (Aust) 1982, 1985
Sundry
Newsletter (monthly)
Queensland Council for the Advancement of Aborigines (1961-65)
Yinjilli (quarterly newsletter)
Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines (1962-3)
Social Services and Aborigines (with Shirley Andrews)
Information pamphlet 1963