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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

Vortex

Picador (Aust) 2024

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

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