London

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A revealing portrait of Joan London's intimate writings about family, love and loss. Joan London's remarkable body of work, including the award-winning novels and short fiction The Golden Age, Gilgamesh and Sister Ships, tells everyday stories of family, love and loss, with her signature poetic vision. London's stories portray how ordinary people get caught up in extraordinary circumstances and come to live in a world of violence and fear, of beauty and hope. In London Tanya Dalziell takes the reader through the literary career of the Western Australian living treasure, journeying through space and time to offer a unique insight into the development of Australian literature and women's writing across the past four decades. London engages deeply with Joan London's work to reflect on its artistry and the conversations it provokes with the changing times. Dalziell invites readers to traverse London's writing and discover the significant contributions she has made to the contemporary literary landscape.

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Tanya Dalziell is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and Professor and Chair of English and Literary Studies at The University of Western Australia, situated on Whadjuk Noongar land. She is co-editor of the journal Australian Literary Studies and her books include Gail Jones- Word, Image, Ethics and the co-edited volume Cultural Seeds- Essays on the work of Nick Cave. Her co-authored book Half the Perfect World- Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964 received the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.