Background
Gail Jones was born in 1955, in Harvey, Western Australia, Australia. However, she was reared in Broome and Kalgoorlie.
35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009, Australia
In 1995, Jones received a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Western Australia.
University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC 3010, Australia
Gail studied Fine Arts briefly at the University of Melbourne.
(In this arresting and richly imaginative collection of tw...)
In this arresting and richly imaginative collection of twelve stories, Gail Jones explores the role of obsession - the inescapable loves and torments she calls fetishes - in the lives of both the famous and the ordinary. Structured around a series of lyrical echoes and repeated images, her stories weave fact and speculation to recreate little-known events in the lives of such figures, as Marcel Proust, Walt Whitman and Elvis Presley, that may have motivated their art and obsessed them as individuals.
https://www.amazon.com/Fetish-Lives-Gail-Jones/dp/1863681795/?tag=2022091-20
1997
(In 1860, Lucy Strange and her brother Thomas are orphaned...)
In 1860, Lucy Strange and her brother Thomas are orphaned, and so begins Lucy's adolescent journey of discovery. It will take her away from her childhood home in Australia to London and Bombay and, finally, to her death, at the age of twenty-two. "Sixty Lights" is a powerful chronicle of a modern and independent young woman's life in the Victorian world.
https://www.amazon.com/Sixty-Lights-Gail-Jones/dp/1843431963
2004
(In the remote outback of North-West Australia, English an...)
In the remote outback of North-West Australia, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife Stella raise a curious child, Perdita. Her upbringing is far from ordinary: a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father, burying himself in books, and an unstable mother, whose knowledge of Shakespeare forms the backbone of the girl's limited education. Emotionally adrift, Perdita develops a friendship with an Aboriginal girl, Mary, with whom she will share a very special bond. She appears content with her unusual family life in this remote corner of the globe until Nicholas Keene is discovered murdered.
https://www.amazon.com/Sorry-Gail-Jones/dp/184655053X/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circu...)
On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circular Quay, site of the iconic Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Crowds of tourists mix with the locals, enjoying the glorious surroundings and the play of light on water. But each of the four carries a complicated history from elsewhere; each is haunted by past intimacies, secrets and guilt: Ellie is preoccupied by her sexual experiences as a girl, James by a tragedy, for which he feels responsible, Catherine by the loss of her beloved brother in Dublin and Pei Xing by her imprisonment during China's Cultural Revolution. Told over the course of a single Saturday, "Five Bells" describes four lives, which chime and resonate, sharing mysterious patterns and symbols. But it is a fifth person, a child, whose presence at the Quay haunts the day and who will overshadow everything, that unfolds. By night-time, when Sydney is drenched in a rainstorm, each life has been transformed.
https://www.amazon.com/Five-Bells-Gail-Jones/dp/1846554020/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a...)
The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father’s death. But a sculpture has gone missing from a museum in Palermo, and Noah is a suspect. The police are investigating. None of it makes any sense. Martin sets off to Palermo in search of answers about his father’s activities, while Evie moves into Noah’s apartment, waiting to learn, where her life might take her. Retracing their father’s steps in their own way, neither of his children can see the path ahead. Gail Jones’s mesmerizing new novel tells a story about parents and children and explores the overlapping patterns, that life makes. "The Death of Noah Glass" is about love and art, about grief and happiness, about memory and the mystery of time.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Noah-Glass-Gail-Jones-ebook/dp/B077RKV67H/?tag=2022091-20
2018
educator novelist author academic
Gail Jones was born in 1955, in Harvey, Western Australia, Australia. However, she was reared in Broome and Kalgoorlie.
At first, Gail studied Fine Arts briefly at the University of Melbourne. Later, she continued her education at the University of Western Australia, graduating with a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1995.
Early in her career, Gail taught courses in creative writing, gender and narrative, Australian literature and literary theory at the University of Western Australia. Currently, she holds a post of a Professor of Writing in the Writing and Society Research School at Western Sydney University. In addition, since 2017, Gail has actively participated in a research project "Other Worlds: Forms of 'World Literature'", for which she is leading a theme, titled "Form as Encounter", that is exploring intercultural intersections and encounters.
As for her writing career, Jones's published novels include "Black Mirror" (2002), "Sixty Lights" (2004), "Dreams of Speaking" (2006), "Sorry" (2007), "Five Bells" (2011), "A Guide to Berlin" (2015) and "The Death of Noah Glass" (2018). Her short story collections include "The House of Breathing" (1992) and "Fetish Lives" (1997).
(In this arresting and richly imaginative collection of tw...)
1997(The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a...)
2018(In the remote outback of North-West Australia, English an...)
2007(On a radiant day in Sydney, four adults converge on Circu...)
2011(In 1860, Lucy Strange and her brother Thomas are orphaned...)
2004Jones has a daughter, Kyra Giorgi, who is also a writer.