A powerful literary thriller from the acclaimed author of OYSTER. Lowell feels contagious with doom. A divorced father with young children, he dreads the anniversary of a hijacked Paris-New York flight on which his mother was killed when he was sixteen years old. Samantha, a survivor of the disaster is plaguing Lowell with phone calls. She says she has information from declassified documents and is obsessed with learning the whole truth about Air France 64. 'What can be worse than not knowing?' she asks. But Lowell only wants to forget. When his father dies suddenly and mysteriously on the anniversary of the hijack, leaving Lowell the key to a locker in an airport terminal, a terrible story unfurls before him. Together, he and Samantha find the truth bearing down on them with the force of an aeroplane exploding. Janette Turner Hospital's electrifying new novel probes with astonishing acuity the murky worlds of espionage and intelligence gathering, the experience of terror and the meaning of survival.

Due Preparations for the Plague

Literature & Fiction

HOSPITAL, Janette Turner

Contemporary

Fourth Estate

North of Nowhere, South of Loss

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

A brilliant collection of stories from the critically-acclaimed author of OYSTER and DUE PREPARATIONS FOR THE PLAGUE.

Literary

By chance, Felicity, a Boston art gallery director, and Gus, a Canadian insurance salesman, witness the arrest of Salvadorean refugees trying to enter Canada, and decide to help an alien missed by the custom inspectors

Borderline

British & Irish

E.P.Dutton

Oyster

Two strangers arrive in an opal mining town in the remote Austrialian Outback, a place where the rough-hewn bushfolk square off against religious fundamentalists, searching for a stepdaughter and a son who have mysteriously disappeared.

United States

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Haunted by the memory of the hijacked Paris-New York flight on which his mother was killed when he was a teenager, Lowell has been receiving calls from a stranger obsessed with learning the whole truth about Air France 64 badgering him for information about the flight she was also on as a child.

Due Preparations for the Plague: A Novel

Genre Fiction

W.W.Norton&Company

In a collection of prize-winning short works, former lovers remember their shared passion through a series of photographs, a young Australian dental hygienist is visited by her drug-dependent brother, a mother and daughter's new home is threatened by the house's former owner, and more. 15,000 first printing.

In this powerful and passionate new novel, Janette Turner Hospital tackles head-on questions of national security, art, terrorism, and love. Leela is a mathematician who has escaped her Southern hometown to study in Boston. She meets an Australian musician, Mishka, and from the moment she first hears him play his music grips her; they quickly become lovers. Then one day Leela is picked up off the street and taken to an interrogation center somewhere outside the city. There has been an explosion in the subway; terrorism is suspected. The interrogator―an old childhood friend―now reveals to her that Mishka may not be all he seems. In this compelling reimagining of the Orpheus story, Leela travels into an underworld of kidnapping, torture, and despair in search of her lover. Janette Turner Hospital, whose works are "richly imbued with a highly lyrical and luminous quality" (San Diego Union-Tribune) again shows her genius, interweaving a literary thriller with a story of passion and the triumph of decency in confusing and dangerous times.

Orpheus Lost: A Novel

“The seventeen stories here aren’t little gifts; they’re cross cultural treasures. Rarely have I been so captivated by a collection of short fiction.” ―Milwaukee Journal These moving and insightful stories help us to find our place in a world in which we have all become rootless travelers. Janette Turner Hospital's characters are exiles who share an intimate knowledge of dislocation: from their culture, from their native countries, from themselves. Her intimate stories capture the turning points in her characters’ lives from Indian lovers on a last romantic weekend before their arranged marriages to a daughter's welcome home after years of travel. Janette Turner Hospital is a wanderer herself. A native of Australia, she has lived in India, England, Canada, and the United States. She is the author of numerous novels, including Oyster, which is published by Norton and was shortlisted for Australia’s Miles Franklin and National Book Awards.

Dislocations: Stories (Norton Paperback Fiction)

Short Stories & Anthologies

Janette Turner Hospital has been called by the Times Literary Supplement "one of the most powerful and innovative writers in English today." Oyster has received critical acclaim internationally, and was short-listed for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award and the National Book Award in Australia.Outer Maroo, a small, opal mining town in the Australian outback, is stewing in heat, drought, and guilty anxiety. Some ghastly cataclysm has occurred on the opal fields, but this is a taboo subject. At the heart of the mystery is the cult messiah, Oyster, dressed in white, sexually compelling, and preaching the end of time.

Oyster: A Novel

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Due Preparations for the Plague

North of Nowhere, South of Loss

North of Nowhere, South of Loss

Borderline

Oyster

Due Preparations for the Plague: A Novel

North of Nowhere, South of Loss

Orpheus Lost: A Novel

Dislocations: Stories (Norton Paperback Fiction)

Oyster: A Novel