Books by Kate Grenville - a bibliography

Fiction

(Please note, this bibliography only includes material published before 1992.)

 
Bearded Ladies: Stories. St Lucia: U.Q.P.,  ISBNs 0702217166, 0702217158, 097072799, 0702233315.
 
Reviews: K. Ahearne, Age Saturday Extra, 11 August, 1984, 15; M. Eldridge, ABR, No. 76, 1985, 25-28; T. Forshaw, Quadrant, XXIX, No. 3, 1985, 77-79; L. Frost, Overland, No. 97, 1984, 66-68; C. Gerrish, Womanspeak, IX, No. 1, 1984, 24; M. Hulse, PN Review, XIII, No. 5, 1987, 80-81; J. Motion, T.L.S., 18 October, 1985, 1173; C. Peake, S.M.H., 29 September, 1984, 47.
 

 
 
Dark Places. Sydney: Picador, 1995, ISBN 0330356410, 0732907896, 1856952592,1863405607; New York: (as "Albion's Story") Harvest Books, 1996, ISBN 0156002418, 100 0151001227; London: Picador, 1995, ISBN 0330341227 and 0330335499.
 
Reviews (Australian reviews only)
 
L. Altomari, Antipodes, 9.1, 1995, 49-50; D. Anderson, S.M.H., 2 July, 1994, Spectrum 9A; P. Craven, Meanjin, 53.3, 1994, 566-570; M. Fraser, Voices, 4.4, 1994-95, 91-98; K. Goldsworthy, ABR, 162, 1994, 7-9 (see also interview by R. Sorensen 8-10); I. Indyk, Weekend Australian, 9-10 July, 1994, Review 7; L. Knight, T.L.S., 2 September, 1994, 10; R. Lucas, Bulletin, 19 July, 1994, 89; J. Maiden, Overland, 141, 1995, 82-84; R. Sorensen, Age, 23 July, 1994, Saturday Extra 7.
 
Dreamhouse. St Lucia: U.Q.P., 1986, ISBN 0702219592; New York: Viking, 1987, ISBN 0670810401; Stockholm, Sweden: Legenda, 1988, ISBN 9158212922.
 
Some reviews: K. Ahearn, Overland, No. 106, 1987, 76-78; J. Cotter, ABR, No. 85, 1986, 5-7; B. Edwards, Mattoid, No. 27, 1987, 82-84; B. Farmer, ABR, No. 96, 1987, 6-8; esp. 7; B. Jefferis, Weekend Australian Magazine, 6-7 September, 1986, 14; M. Luke, Fremantle Arts Review, II, No. 2, 1987, 12; S. McKernan, Bulletin, 30 September, 1986, 92, 95; M. Peacock, New York Times and Book Review, 22 November, 1987, 24; P. Pierce, Age Saturday Extra, 13 September, 1986, 10; K. Saunders, Courier-Mail: The Great Weekend, 27 September, 1986, 6; V. Sen, Canberra Times, 13 September, 1986, B2; C. Thompson, Scripsi, IV, No. 3, 1987, 61-68.
 
Joan Makes History: A Novel. St Lucia: U.Q.P., ISBN 0702221740, 0434304506, 1863400095, 1863400435, 0702233307, 070223315, 0702220728, 0702221740; Latham, New York, USA: British American Publishing, 1988, ISBN 0945167091; London: Minerva, 1991, ISBN 0749391383, 0434304506; Hamburg, Germany: Rowohlt, 1991, ISBN 3499129795; Stockholm, Sweden: Legenda, 1990, ISBN 9158214186.
 
Some reviews:  D. Anderson, S.M.H., 30 April, 1988, 70; D. Bird, Westerly, XXXIII, No. 3, 1988, 87-88; C. Bliss, World Literature Today, 63.3, 1989, 533; M. Clark, ABR, No. 100, 1988, 9-10; M. Flanagan, Overland, No. 112, 1988, 77-78; M. Hardie, Southerly, 49, No. 1, 1989, 113-17; B. Matthews, Age Saturday Extra, 30 April, 1988, 15; B. Merry, LiNQ, 16, No. 2, 1988, 108-17; S. McKernan, Bulletin, 3 May, 1988, 127; S. Morrison, Weekend Australian. Weekend Magazine, 14-15 May, 1988, 19; D. Reiter, Redoubt, No. 3, 1988, 71-76; K. Veitch, Fremantle Arts Review, III, No. 9, 1988, 15; J. Wells, Lilith, No. 6, 1989, 155-58; N. Willard, New York Times Book Review, 18 December, 1988, 7.
 
Lilian's Story. Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1985, 1986, ISBN 0868614939,100 0149985475, 0670809292, 0868619310, 0140085475, 0947072063, 1863730230, 1864480289, 1864481161, 0642178364; 1996, 1997, ISBN 1864482842; New York: Viking Penguin, 1986; New York: Harvest Books, 1994, ISBN 0156001233; London: Picador, 1994, ISBN 0330339893.
 
Some reviews D. Anderson, National Times, 28 June-4 July, 1985, 32; A. Brewster, CRNLE Reviews Journal, No. 2, 1985, 27-31; K. Bucknell, T.L.S., 10 October, 1986, 1130; L. Clancy, Age Saturday Extra, 17 August, 1985, 13; M. Eldridge, ABR, No. 76, 1985, 25-28; J. Emery, Antipodes, 3.1, 1989, 50-51; K. England, Advertiser Saturday Review, 17 August, 1985, 7; K. Goldsworthy, Age Monthly Review, V, No.5, 1985, 17-19; M. Halligan, Canberra Times, 19 October, 1985, B2; B. Jefferis, Overland, No. 103, 1986, 65-66; E. Jolley, S.M.H., 29 June, 1985, 42; A. McGregor, Courier-Mail, 24 August, 1985, 30; S. McKernan, Bulletin, 23 July, 1985, 78, 80; A. Mitchell, Weekend Australian Magazine, 22-23 June, 1985, 15; J. Purdy, New York Times Book Review, 7 September, 1986, 27.
 
Lilian's Story. North Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1991, revised edition of 1985 publication, containing changes and additions made for US publication, ISBN 1864482842.

The Idea of Perfection. Sydney: Macmillan Picador, 2000, ISBN 100 0330361775, 0330362062;  London: Picador, 2001, ISBN 0330392611,0330490656; New York: Penguin Putnam, 2002, ISBN 0670030805; Denmark: Rosinante 2002 ISBN 62103105; Amsterdam: Arena 2002 ISBN 9069744414
 
Non-Fiction
 
(with Sue Woolfe) Making Stories: How Ten Australian Novels Were Written. St Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1993, ISBN 1863733167, 1865086134. Includes discussion of Lilian's Story.
 
The Writing Book. Sydney, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1990, ISBN 00044421249, 186448943X.
 
'Self-Portrait'. ABR, No. 87, 1987, 17-18.
 
'Why I Write As I Do'. Australian Literature Quarterly, 6-7 June, 1987, 6.

Writing From Start to Finish: a Six-Step Guide. Sydney,  Allen & Unwin, 2002, ISBN 1865085146.
 
Critical Material (not a complete list)
 
Baker, Candida. 'Kate Grenville'. In her Yacker 3 (Sydney: Picador, 1989), 100-129
 
Bartlett, Alison. 'Other Stories: The Representation of History in Recent Fiction by Australian Women Writers'. Southerly, 53.1, 1993, 165-80.
 
Craven, Peter. 'The Gothic Grenville, or Kate Makes Rhetoric'. Scripsi, 6, No. 3, 1990, 239-58.
 
Ellison, Jennifer. 'Kate Grenville'. In her Rooms of Their Own (Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1986), 152-171.
 
Goulston, Wendy. 'Herstory's Re/vision of History: Women's Narrative Subverts Imperial Discourse in Kate Grenville's Joan Makes History'. Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada, 7, 1992, 20-27.
 
Haynes, Roslynn D. 'Fatalism and Feminism in the Fiction of Kate Grenville'. WLWE, 31.1, 1991, 60-79.
 
Herk, Aritha van. 'Post-Modernism: Homesick for Homesickness'. In The Commonwealth Novel Since 1960, edited by Bruce King (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and London: Macmillan, 1991), 216-30. Includes discussion of Joan Makes History.
 
Jones, Dorothy. 'Living in the Country: A Woman's Reading'. Australian-Canadian Studies, 10.2, 1992, 87-98. Includes discussion of Grenville.
 
Livett, Jennifer. 'History That Might Have Happened'. Island Magazine, No. 36, 1988, 83-85.
 
Mercer, Gina. 'Newer Voices 2: Kate Grenville'. Southerly, XLV, No. 3, 1985, 295-300.
 
Midalia, Susan. 'Re-writing Woman: Genre Politics and Female Identity in Kate Grenville's Dreamhouse'. A.L.S., 16.1, 1993, 30-37.
 
Nugent, Ann. 'Does Joan Make History? If So, in Which Generation?' Blast, Nos. 6-7, 1988, 22-24.
 
Perkins, Elizabeth. 'Characters in Search of History: Five Contemporary Australian Novels'. In Australian Writing 1988, edited by M. Jurgensen and R. Adamson, Bicentennial issue of Outrider. Published in association with Penguin as Australian Writing Now (Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1988), 58-71.
 
Prentice, Chris. 'The Interplay of Place and Placelessness in the Subject of Post-colonial Fiction'. SPAN, 31, 1991, 63-80. Discusses Grenville's Lilian's Story and Sally Morgan's My Place.
 
Rogers, Shelagh. '"You Don't Really Know What It Is Until You Go Away and Come Back": Interviews with Four Australian Writers'. Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada, No. 1, 1989, 33-43.
 
Thompson, Veronica. 'You Are What you Eat: Women Eating and Identity in Kate Grenville's Lilian's Story and Barabara Hanrahan's The Scent of Eucalyptus'. Ariel, 27.4, 1997, 129-137.
 
Turcotte, Gerry. 'The Story-teller's Revenge: Kate Grenville Interviewed by Gerry Turcotte'. Kunapipi, 16.1, 1994, 147-58.
 
---. 'Telling Those Untold Stories: An Interview with Kate Grenville'. Southerly, 47, No. 3, 1987, 284-99.
 
---. '"The Ultimate Oppression": Discourse Politics in Kate Grenville's Fiction'. WLWE, 29, No. 1, 1989, 64-85.
 
Willbanks, Ray. 'Kate Grenville'. In his Speaking Volumes: Australian Writers and Their Work (Ringwood, Vic.: Penguin, 1991).