The Gail Jones Bibliography

Secondary Sources

Books

Dalziell, Tanya, Gail Jones: Word, Image, Ethics, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2020).
Royo-Grasa, Pilar, Trauma, Australia and Gail Jones’s Fiction (1996-2007), MSE-H/MUSE: Munich Studies in English, 48 (Berlin ; New York: Peter Lang, 2022).
Uhlmann, Anthony (ed.), Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2022).

Articles, Essays & Book Chapters

Alber, Jan, ‘Indigeneity and Narrative Strategies: Ideology in Contemporary Non-Indigenous Australian Prose Fiction’, Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, 9.1–2 (2017), pp. 159–81. [available online]
Almeida, Sandra Regina Goulart, ‘A Story Told in a Whisper, or the Impossibility of Atonement’, Ilha do Desterro: A Journal of English Language, 69.2 (2016), pp. 57–62.
Arias, Rosario, ‘(Spirit) Photography and the Past in the Neo-Victorian Novel’, Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory, 20.1–2 (2009), pp. 92–107. [available online]
Ash, Susan, ‘All the Fraught Politics: Race, Gender and the Female Traveller’, in Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, 36, Postcolonial Fictions (1992), pp. 347–56. [Paper presented at the SPACLALS Triennial Conference, Murdoch University, Fremantle, WA]
Belleflamme, Valérie-Anne, ‘Saying the Unsayable: Imagining Reconciliation in Gail Jones’s Sorry’, English Text Construction, 8.2 (2015), pp. 159–76.
Belleflamme, Valérie-Anne, ‘“Shakespeare Was Wrong”: Counter-Discursive Intertextuality in Gail Jones’s Sorry’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 51.6 (2015), pp. 661–71. [available online]
Belleflamme, Valérie-Anne, ‘Looking at Gail Jones’s “The Man in the Moon” in Aestheticized Darkness’, Journal of Australian Studies, 45.1 (2021), pp. 33–45.
Belleflamme, Valérie-Anne, ‘“Moving on Metaphorical Silk Roads of Intellectual Trade”: Chinese Aesthetics in Five Bells’, in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed. by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2022), pp. 91–102.
Birns, Nicholas, Contemporary Australian Literature: A World Not Yet Dead, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2017), pp. 121-56.
Bradley, James, ‘Five Bells’, Reading Australia, 2013. [available online]
Brady, Veronica, ‘Australia the Land of Similes: The Feminine Economy’, Le Simplegadi, 1 (2003), pp. 11–15.
Brydon, Diana, ‘“Difficult Forms of Knowing”: Enquiry, Injury, and Translocated Relations of Postcolonial Responsibility’, in Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking, ed. by Marga Munkelt, Markus Schmitz, Mark Stein, and Silke Stroh, Cross/Cultures, 156 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2013), pp. 3–28.
Cahill, Michelle, ‘Beyond the Cosmopolitan: Small Dangerous Fragments’, in The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel, ed. Nicholas Birns and Louis Klee (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 243–57.
Callahan, David, ‘History and Shame: East Timor in Australian Fictions’, Interventions, 12.3 (2010), pp. 401–14. [available online]
Callahan, David, ‘Failing to Meet in the Middle: East Timor and Gail Jones’s “Other Places”’, Wayne State University Press, Antipodes, 26.2 (2012), pp. 137–42.
Dale, Leigh, ‘No More Boomerang? “Nigger’s Leap” and Five Bells’, Journal of Australian Studies, 37.1 (2013), pp. 48–61. [available online]
Dalziell, Tanya, ‘An Ethics of Mourning: Gail Jones’s Black Mirror’, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 4 (2005), pp. 49–61.
Dalziell, Tanya, ‘The Flurry of Letters: A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones’, Sydney Review of Books, 6 November 2015. [available online]
Dalziell, Tanya, ‘Sleep’s Sweet Relief’, in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed. by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2022), pp. 59–74.
Davis, Peter, ‘Double Gazing and Novel Spaces - Examining Narrated and Manifest Photographs in the Novel’, Double Dialogues, On Space, 7 (2007). [available online]
Dixon, Robert, ‘Cosmopolitan Australians and Colonial Modernity: Alex Miller’s Conditions of Faith, Gail Jones’s Black Mirror and A. L. McCann’s The White Body of Evening’, Westerly, 49 (2004), pp. 122–37.
Dixon, Robert, ‘Ghosts in the Machine: Modernity and the Unmodern in Gail Jones’s Dreams of Speaking’, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 8 (2008), pp. 121–37.
Dixon, Robert, ‘Invitation to the Voyage: Reading Gail Jones’s Five Bells’, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 12.3 (2012), pp. 1–17.
Dixon, Robert, ‘Figures in Geometry: The Death of Noah Glass by Gail Jones’, Sydney Review of Books, 7 September 2018. [available online] Also published in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed. by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2022), pp. 139–60.
Dunn, Irina, ‘Notes from Down Under’, Asian Journal of Literature, Culture and Society, 1 (2007), pp. 82–84.
Duthie, Fiona, ‘From Innocent to Evil: The Representation of the Child in the Works of Gail Jones’, Westerly, 58.1 (2013), pp. 126–47.
Eagle, Christopher, ‘“Angry Because She Stutters”: Stuttering, Violence, and the Politics of Voice in American Pastoral and Sorry’, Philip Roth Studies, 8.1 (2012), pp. 17–30.
Eagle, Christopher, ‘Stuttering, Violence, and the Politics of Voice in Robert Graves, Philip Roth, and Gail Jones’, in Dysfluencies : On Speech Disorders in Modern Literature (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), pp. 105–30.
Froud, Mark, ‘The Hole in Language’, in his The Lost Child in Literature and Culture (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. 141–86.
Gelder, Ken, ‘“Plagued by Hideous Imaginings”: the Despondent Worlds of Contemporary Australian Fiction’, Overland, Winter 2005, pp. 32–37.
Genoni, Paul, ‘Tampa Proof? Australian Fiction 2002-2003’, Westerly, 48 (2003), pp. 159–74.
Genoni, Paul, ‘“Art Is the Windowpane”: Novels of Australian Women and Modernism in Inter-War Europe’, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 3 (2004), pp. 159–72.
Genoni, Paul, ‘Elvis Down Under: Simulations of a US Popo Icon in Australian Fiction’, in Reading Across the Pacific: Australia - United States Intellectual Histories, ed. by Robert Dixon and Nicholas Birns (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2010), pp. 177–93.
Giles, Paul, ‘Writing for the Planet: Contemporary Australian Fiction’, in The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century, ed. by Amy J. Elias and Christian Moraru (Northwestern University Press, 2015), pp. 143–60. [available online]
Giles, Paul, ‘“Reverse-Thinking”: Metahistorical Arts and Fictions - Planetary Australian Fiction: Winton, Jones, Tsiolkas’, in The Planetary Clock: Antipodean Time and Spherical Postmodern Fictions, ed. by Paul Giles (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 183–236.
Gourley, James, ‘Gail Jones’ Novel Modernism: Sixty Lights and Literary Tradition’, in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed. by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2022), pp. 43–58.
Haas, Gerrit, ‘Developing Ficto-Critical Edge: Issues & Practices of Ficto/Critical Concern’, in Fictocritical Strategies: Subverting Textual Practices of Meaning, Other, and Self-Formation, Lettre (Bielefeld: transcript, 2017), pp. 155–74.
Halford, James, ‘Southern Conversations 2: Writing the South in Sydney’, Sydney Review of Books, 25 February 2020.
Han, Xiaoxiao, ‘The Narrative of Trauma in Gail Jones’s Sorry’, Proceedings of the 2019 National High-end Forum on Innovation and Development of Education and Teaching, 8 (2019), pp. 61–62. [original: 韩晓晓: “盖尔·琼斯《抱歉》中的创伤叙事”, 2019 全国教育教学创新与发展高端论坛论文集, 2019(08): 61-62.]
Hauthal, Janine, ‘Europe as Alternative Space in Contemporary Australian Fiction by Carey, Tsiolkas and Jones’, Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, Alter/Native Spaces, 10.2 (2019).
Hecq, Dominique, ‘Autofrictions: The Fictopoet, the Critic and the Teacher’, Cultural Studies Review, 11.2 (2005), 179–88.
Herrero, Dolores, ‘The Australian Apology and Postcolonial Defamiliarization: Gail Jones’s Sorry’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 47.3 (2011), pp. 283–95. [available online]
Huang, Biying, ‘The Dispersion of Light: On the Diaspora in Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights’, Masterpiece Review, 33 (2014), pp. 113–15. [original: 黄碧莹: “光的色散——论盖尔·琼斯《六十盏灯》中的流散”, 名作欣赏, 33(2014):113-115.]
Huang, Jie, ‘“The Stolen Children” and the Unspeakable Repentance: Language as Metaphor in Gail Jones’s Sorry’, Foreign Literature Review, 4 (2018), pp. 135–52. [original: 黄洁. “不可言说的忏悔: ‘被偷走的孩子’与《抱歉》中语言的隐喻”, 外国文学评论, 04(2018): 135-152.]
Huggan, Graham, ‘Transformations of the Tourist Gaze: India in Recent Australian Fiction’, Westerly, Crossing the Waters, Asia and Australia, 38.4 (1993), pp. 83–89.
Hughes-d’Aeth, Tony, ‘Utopia and Hysteria in A Guide to Berlin’, in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed. by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2022), pp. 103–18.
Jacobs, Lyn, ‘Gail Jones’s “Light Writing”: Memory and the Photo-Graph’, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 5 (2006), pp. 191–208.
Jiang, Jinling, ‘Sublimation in Ignorance: An Analysis of Feminine Consciousness in Sixty Lights’, Wen Jiao Zi Liao, 4 (2012), pp. 21–22. [original: 蒋金铃: “懵懂中的升华:《六十盏灯》女性意识解析”, 文教资料, 2012 (04): 21-22.]
Jillett, Lou, ‘Constellations of Light and Image - Contemplations on Deep Space: Apparent Magnitude and Scale’, in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed. by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2022), pp. 15–28.
Jing, Limin, ‘The Shine and the Shadow in the Life: An Interpretation of Sixty Lights’, in Space. Edge. Dialogue: The Theory of Comparative Literature and World Literature, ed. by Abuduwaili Keremu (Lanzhou: Gansu People’s Publishing House, 2010), pp. 153–57. [original: 荆丽敏: “生命中的光和影: 解读盖尔·琼斯《六十盏灯》”, 选自《空间·边缘·对话：比较文学和世界文学新论》, 阿布都外力·克热木主编, 兰州: 甘肃人民出版社, 2010: 153-157.]
Jing, Limin, ‘From Fixity to Fluidity: The Theme of Cultural Identity in Gail Jones’, in Diaspora and Marginalization: Another Concern of the Value in World Literature, ed. by Yue Wen and Zhaorong Chen (Lanzhou: Gansu People’s Publishing House, 2011), pp. 229–38. [original: 荆丽敏: “从滞定到流动: 盖尔·琼斯小说文化身份研究”, 《流散与边缘化: 世界文学的另类价值关怀》, 温越, 陈召荣编著, 兰州: 甘肃人民出版社, 2011: 229-238.]
Jing, Limin, ‘The Whisper of “Sorry” by Australian Colonialists: An Interpretation of the Post-colonial novel Sorry’, Youth Years, 10 (2011), p. 55. [original: 荆丽敏: “澳洲殖民主义者低语的抱歉——后殖民主义小说《抱歉》的解读”, 青春岁月, 2011(10): 55.]
Jones, Claire, ‘Liberating Australian Literature: Teaching from the Postnational Space’, in Teaching Australian and New Zealand Literature, ed. by Nicholas Birns, Nicole Moore, and Sarah Shieff (New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2016), pp. 223–33.
Jones, Jo, ‘History and the Novel: Refusing to Be Silent’, Westerly, 55.2 (2010), pp. 36–52.
Kennedy, Rosanne, ‘Australian Trials of Trauma: The Stolen Generations in Human Rights, Law, and Literature’, Comparative Literature Studies, 48.3 (2011), pp. 333–55.
Kerr, Heather, ‘Sympathetic Topographies’, Parallax, 7.2 (2001), 107–26. [available online]
Kerr, Heather, ‘Fictocritical Empathy and the Work of Mourning: Ethics/Aesthetics and the Dialectic of Empathy’, Cultural Studies Review, 9.1 (2003), pp. 180–200.
Khorana, Sukhmani, ‘Photography, Cinema and Time in Jane Campion’s The Piano and Gail Jones’ Sixty Lights’, Outskirts: Feminisms along the Edge, 16 (2007), pp. 1–5.
Klik, Lukas, ‘Narrative Empathy in Contemporary Australian Multiperspectival Novels: Cognitive Readings of Christos Tsiolkas’s The Slap and Gail Jones’s Five Bells’, in The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities: Conversations between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature, ed. by Jean-François Vernay, Routledge Focus on Literature (London: Routledge, 2021), pp. 14–26.
Kossew, Sue, ‘Saying Sorry: The Politics of Apology and Reconciliation in Recent Australian Fiction’, in Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres, ed. by Walter Goebel and Saskia Schabio (New York, NY: Routledge, 2013), pp. 171–83.
Kossew, Sue, ‘City of Words: Haunting Legacies in Gail Jones’s Five Bells’, Re-Inventing the Postcolonial (in the) Metropolis, ed. by Cecile Sandten and Annika Bauer, Cross/Cultures, 188 (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp.275–89.
Kossew, Sue, and Oona Frawley, ‘Irish and Australian Historical Fiction’, in Exhuming Passions: The Pressure of the Past in Ireland and Australia, ed. by Katie Holmes and Stuart Ward (Nedlands, WA: UWA Publishing, 2012), pp. 187–206.
Kušnír, Jaroslav, ‘Diasporic “Home” and Transnational Identities in Gail Jones’ Five Bells’, in Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging, ed. by Florian Kläger and Klaus Stierstorfer (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015), pp. 465–78.
Lewis, Alexandra, ‘The Ethics of Appropriation; Or, the “Mere Spectre” of Jane Eyre: Emma Tennant’s Thornfield Hall, Jasper Fforde’s The Eyre Affair, and Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights’, in Charlotte Brontë: Legacies and Afterlives, ed. by Amber K. Regis and Deborah Wynne, Interventions (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), pp. 197–220.
Lu, Bing, Lu, ‘To Coexist with “the Other” in the System: A Contrastive Interpretation of The Well and Sixty Lights from the Angle of Ethics’, Chinese Journal of Systems Science, 28.1 (2020), pp. 17–23. [original: 卢冰: “系统论视野中与他者共存——《井》与《六十盏灯》的伦理对读”，系统科学学报, 2020, 28(01): 17-23.]
McCarthy, Birdie, ‘Ringing Out: “Five Bells” and Its Feedback Loops’, in Telling Stories: Australian Life and Literature 1935-2012, ed. by Paul Genoni and Tanya Dalziell (Clayton, VIC: Monash University Publishing, 2013), pp. 44–50.
McCrea, Michele, ‘Collisions of Authority: Nonunitary Narration and Textual Authority in Gail Jones’ Sorry’, in The Encounters: Place, Situation, Context Paper—The Refereed Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the Australasian Association of Writing Programs, 2012, pp. 1–9. [Paper presented at the 17th annual AAWP Conference, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC]
McGonegal, Julie, ‘The Great Canadian (and Australian) Secret: The Limits of Non-Indigenous Knowledge and Representation’, English Studies in Canada, 35.1 (2009), pp. 67–83.
McLean Davies, Larissa, ‘Magwitch Madness: Archive Fever and the Teaching of Australian Literature in Subject English’, in Teaching Australian Literature: From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings, ed. by Brenton Doecke, Larissa McLean Davies, and Philip Mead (Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press: Australian Association for the Teaching of English, 2011), pp. 132–52.
McMahon, Elizabeth, ‘Bioluminescence: Materiality, Metaphor and Trace in Sixty Lights’, in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed. by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2022), pp. 29–42.
Midalia, Susan, ‘A Tribute to the Short Story’, ed. by Donna Ward, Indigo: The Journal of Western Australian Creative Writing, 4 (2009), pp. 16–24.
Mitchell, Kate, ‘Ghostly Histories and Embodied Memories: Photography, Spectrality and Historical Fiction in Afterimage and Sixty Lights’, Neo-Victorian Studies, 1.1 (2008), pp. 81–109.
Mitchell, Kate, ‘“The Alluring Patina of Loss”: Photography, Memory, and Memory Texts in Sixty Lights and Afterimage’, in History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Victorian Afterimages (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), pp. 143–76.
Mudie, Ella, ‘The Synchronous City: Aural Geographies in Gail Jones’s Five Bells’, New Scholar: An International Journal of the Humanities, Creative Arts and Social Sciences, 3.2 (2014), p. 12.
Nikro, Norman Saadi, ‘Paratactic Stammers: Temporality in the Novels of Gail Jones’, ed. by Tony Simoes da Silva, Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 16.1 (2016), pp. 1–16.
Oreb, Naomi, ‘Mirroring, Depth and Inversion: Holding Gail Jones’s Black Mirror Against Contemporary Australia’, Sydney Studies in English, 35 (2009), pp. 112–27.
Pearl, Zach, ‘Ghost Writing the Self: Autofiction, Fictocriticism, and Social Media’, English Studies in Canada, 45.1–2 (2019), 161–87.
Pipic, Hano, ‘Representation of Trauma in Two Selected Bildungsromane: Gail Jones’ Sorry (2008) and Rachel Zadok’s Gem Squash Tokoloshe (2005)’, in Postcolonial Departures: Narrative Transformations in Australian and South African Fictions (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2017), pp. 29–72.
Prodromou, Amy, ‘“That Weeping Constellation”: Navigating Loss in “Memoirs of Textured Recovery”’, Life Writing, 9.1 (2012), pp. 57–75. [available online]
Prodromou, Amy, Navigating Loss in Women’s Contemporary Memoir, Palgrave Macmillan (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), passim.
Rooney, Brigid, ‘Silent Propinquities: Literary Selfhood and Modernity in A Guide to Berlin’, in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed. by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2022), pp. 119–38.
Roughley, Fiona, ‘Spatialising Experience: Gail Jones’s Black Mirror and the Contending of Postmodern Space’, Australian Literary Studies, 23.2 (2007), pp. 58–73.
Royo Grasa, María Del Pilar, ‘Forgetfulness and Remembrance in Gail Jones’s “Touching Tiananmen”’, Journal of the European Association for Studies of Australia, 3.2 (2012), pp. 32–46.
Royo Grasa, María Del Pilar, ‘A Dialectic of Trauma and Shame: The Politics of Dispossession in Gail Jones’s Black Mirror’, in Victimhood and Vulnerability in 21st Century Fiction, ed. by Jean-Michel Ganteau, Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature (New York, NY: Routledge, 2017), pp. 128–50.
Royo Grasa, María Del Pilar, ‘A Challenge to Whiteness: The Development of a Maculate Aesthetic in Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights’, Anglistik, 29.2 (2018), pp. 127–43.
Royo Grasa, María Del Pilar, ‘Looking for Othello’s Pearl in Gail Jones’s Sorry (2007): Symbolic and Intertextual Questioning of the Notion of “Settler Envy”’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 54.2 (2018), pp. 200–213. [available online]
Royo Grasa, María Del Pilar, ‘Gail Jones’s “The Ocean” (2013) and A Guide to Berlin (2015): A Literary Challenge to Asylum Seekers’ Precarity’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 56.4 (2020), pp. 1–15. [available online]
Ryall, Anka, ‘Woolfian Border Poetics and Contemporary Circadian Novels’, Nordlit, 31 (2014), pp. 151–59. [available online]
Ryan, John, ‘Memory: The Theatre of the Past’, Coolabah, 13 (2014), pp. 156–63.
Samuelson, Meg, ‘Blueness & Light in the Art of Gail Jones’, in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed. by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2022), pp. 161–80.
Schwerin, Catherine, ‘Speaking the Unspeakable – Manifestations of Silence in Gail Jones’ Sorry’, Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Brasov, Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies, 2.51 (2009), pp. 37–40.
Shen, Rongmu, and Chunjuan Zhan, ‘Fuzzy Zone of Memory: An Interpretation of “Flexible Discourse” in Sorry’, Journal of Hefei University of Technology (Social Sciences), 36.4 (2022), pp. 95–101. [original: 沈慕蓉, 詹春娟: “记忆的模糊地带——《抱歉》中的 ‘柔性话语’ 解读”, 合肥工业大学学报 (社会科学版), 2022, 36(04): 95-101.]
Steains, Timothy Kazuo, ‘The Mixed Temporalities of Transnationalism in Dreams of Speaking’, Journal of Australian Studies, 41.1 (2017), pp. 32–46. [available online]
Suárez Lafuente, María Socorro, ‘Gail Jones’s Intertextual Mirrors: In the Footsteps of Virginia Woolf’, Oceánide, 13 (2020), pp. 120–26.
Teichler, Hanna, ‘Beyond the Partisan Divide: Transcultural Recalibrations of National Myths in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road and Gail Jones’s Sorry’, in Carnivalizing Reconciliation: Contemporary Australian and Canadian Literature and Film Beyond the Victim Paradigm, Worlds of Memory (New York: Berghahn Books, 2021), viii, pp. 88–135.
Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘Introduction’, in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed. by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2022), pp. 1–14.
Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘Resisting Fixation in Gail Jones’ Sorry and Five Bells’, in Inner and Outer Worlds: Gail Jones’ Fiction, ed. by Anthony Uhlmann, Sydney Studies in Australian Literature (Sydney, NSW: Sydney University Press, 2022), pp. 75–90.
Van, Lucy, and Anne Maxwell, ‘Camera, Colony, Künstlerroman: Photography in Three Australian Novels’, Journal of Australian Studies, 42.1 (2017), pp. 116–30. [available online]
van Dam, Daný, ‘Sea Travel and Femininity in Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights: The Female Global Citizen’, Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas, 16.1 (2018), pp. 109–24.
van Herk, Aritha, ‘Spectral Tattoo: Reconstructive Fictions’, Span: Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (proceedings of the SPACLALS Triennial Conference ‘Postcolonial Fictions’ ed. by Michèle Drouart), 36, 1992.
van Herk, Aritha, ‘Breathing Under Water: A Ficto-Critical Response to Gail Jones’s “The House of Breathing”’, Journal of the Short Story in English, Special Issue: The Transatlantic Short Story, 61 (2013), pp. 1–12.
Vita N.P.A., R.A., ‘City as Memory in Five Bells and The Root of All Evil’, Jurnal Ilmu Komunikasi, 12.2 (2015), pp. 251–68. [available online]
Wang, Labao, ‘The “Petit Récit” in Gail Jones’ Sorry’, Foreign Literatures, 3 (2018), pp. 124–34. [original: 王腊宝: “盖尔·琼斯《抱歉》中的后现代‘小叙事’, ” 国外文学, 2018(03): 124-134.]
Wang, Labao, ‘White Story and Black Pains in Gail Jones’ Sorry’, Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies, 46.2 (2020), pp. 115–35.
West-Pavlov, Russell, ‘Shakespeare Among the Nyoongar: Post-Colonial Texts, Colonial Intertexts and Their Imbrications – Macbeth in Gail Jones’s Sorry’, Zeitschrift für Anglistik Und Amerikanistik, 63.4 (2015), pp. 391–410.
Wevers, Lydia, ‘Fold in the Map : Figuring Modernity in Gail Jones’s Dreams of Speaking and Elizabeth Knox’s Dreamhunter’, Australian Literary Studies, 23.2 (2007), pp. 187–98.
Xing, Chun-li, ‘Becoming Indigenous: A Comparative Analysis of Patrick White’s A Fringe of Leaves and Gail Jones’ Sorry’, in Australian Studies (2015), pp. 123–31. [Paper presented at the 14th International Conference of Australian Studies, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai]
Zavaglia, Liliana G., ‘The Image in the Shadow’, in her White Apology and Apologia: Australian Novels of Reconciliation, Cambria Australian Literature Series (Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2016), pp. 143-174, and passim.
Zeng, Zhen, ‘Research on the Diaspora Motifs in Sixty Lights from the Perspective of Feminist Gender Studies’, Journal of Chifeng University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Chinese Edition), 38.9 (2017), pp. 120–22. [original: 曾真: “女性主义性别视角下对《六十盏灯》中的流散主题研究”, 赤峰学院学报 (汉文哲学社会科学版), 2017, 38(09): 120-122.]
Zhan, Chunjuan, ‘Narrative Ethics in Australian Reconciliation Novels: Taking Sorry as an Example’, New Perspectives on World Literature, 2 (2022), pp. 149–59. [original: 詹春娟: “论澳大利亚和解小说的叙事伦理——以《抱歉》为例”, 外国文学动态研究, 2022(02): 149-159.]
Zhang, Chengcheng, ‘The Mobility of Identity: Home, Travel and Intercultural Fort/Da in Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights’, Contemporary Foreign Literature, 2 (2021), pp. 144–50. [original: 张成成: “流动的身份——论盖尔•琼斯《六十盏灯》中的家、旅行与跨文化去\来”, 《当代外国文学》, 2021, 42(02): 144-150.]
Zhang, Ying, ‘Light Writing: On Australian Female Writer Gail Jones’s Sixty Lights’, Journal of Fuyang Normal University (Social Sciences), 12.1 (2012), pp. 98–101. [original: 张颖: “‘光线写作’——论澳大利亚女作家盖尔·琼斯的小说《六十盏灯》”, 阜阳师范学院学报 (社会科学版), 2012, 12(01): 98-101.]

Entries in Encyclopedias and Reference Works

‘Gail Jones’, AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (St Lucia, QLD: The University of Queensland, 2002–).
‘Gail Jones 1955-’, in Contemporary Literary Criticism, ed. by Lawrence J. Trudeau (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale, 2016), 386, pp. 1–93.
‘Gail Jones’, Prabook: World Biographical Encyclopedia, 2019. [available online]
Belleflamme, Valérie-Anne, ‘Gail Jones’, The Literary Encyclopedia, 2022.
Entry in Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, 2nd ed, ed. Eugene Benson and Leonard W. Conolly (London: Routledge, 2005).

Dissertations & Theses

Belleflamme, Valérie-Anne, ‘The Australian Apology in Fiction: Gail Jones’s Sorry’ (unpublished MA Thesis, University of Liège, 2013).
Bissell, Elizabeth Mary, ‘Astonishing Tricks: Approaches to the Woman Artist in Australian Women’s Fiction’ (unpublished PhD Dissertation, University of Queensland, 2014).
Butler, Kelly Jean, ‘Witnessing Australian Stories: History, Testimony and Memory in Contemporary Culture’ (unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2010).
Chengcheng, Zhang, 2023.(more information forthcoming)
Flavell, Helen, ‘Writing-Between: Australian and Canadian Ficto-Criticism’ (unpublished PhD Thesis, Murdoch University, 2004).
Goedjen, Tara, ‘The Transnational-Uncanny: Strange Territories in Contemporary Novels’ (unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Wollongong, 2014).
Haas, Gerrit, ‘Ficto/Critical Strategies: Subverting Textual Practices of Meaning, Other, and Self-Formation’ (PhD Dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin and University of Western Australia, 2014).
Hancock, Jessica, ‘Postcolonial Decolonisations: Dickens in Australian Neo-Victorian Literature’ (unpublished BA Hons Thesis, University of Western Australia, 2012).
Hennessy, Rachel, ‘Whose Shoes? Writing The Heaven I Swallowed’ (unpublished PhD Dissertation, University of Adelaide, 2009). [available online]
Jones, Joanne, ‘A Study of the Significance of the Australian Historical Novel in the Period of the History Wars, 1988 — Present’ (unpublished PhD Dissertation, Curtin University, 2012).
Koren, Eveline, ‘Gail Jones‘ Black Mirror and Sorry – A Comparative Analysis of Recurring Themes’ (unpublished MA Thesis, University of Vienna, 2010).
Lynch, Gay, ‘Apocryphal Irish Texts, Revived in Australian Historical Fiction, as Collective Memory’ (unpublished PhD Dissertation, Flinders University, 2009). [available online]
McCrea, Michele, ‘Regenerative Voices: Narrative Strategies and Textual Authority in Three Post-Colonial Novels’ (unpublished PhD Dissertation, Flinders University, 2012).
Mitchell, Kate, ‘(Re)Presenting the Victorians : History, Historiography and the Victorian Past in Contemporary Historical Fiction’ (unpublished PhD Dissertation, University of Melbourne, 2007).
Prodromou, Amy, ‘“That Weeping Constellation”: Navigating Loss in Women’s Memoirs of Textured Recovery’ (unpublished PhD Dissertation, Lancaster University, 2010).
Rak, Adrian, ‘Trauma, Trauma Theory, and Gail Jones’ A Guide to Berlin’ (unpublished MRes Thesis, University of Western Sydney, 2016).
Royo Grasa, María Del Pilar, ‘The Ambivalence of the Chiaroscuro: Individual and Transgenerational Trauma in Gail Jones’ Sixty Lights’ (unpublished MA Thesis, University of Zaragoza, 2010).
Royo Grasa, María Del Pilar, ‘A Study on the Representation of Trauma in Gail Jones’s Black Mirror (2002), Sixty Lights (2004) and Sorry (2007)’ (unpublished PhD Dissertation, Universidad de Zaragoza, 2014).
Sugano, Motoko, ‘Inheritance and Expectations: The Ambivalence of the Colonial Orphan Figure in Post-Colonial Re-Writings of Charles Dickens’s Great Excpectations’ (unpublished MRes Thesis, University of New South Wales, 2005).
Tucker, Robyn, ‘Significant Shadows: Ethics and Affect in Australian Cross-Cultural Research’ (unpublished PhD Dissertation, University of Adelaide, 2003).
van Helten, Seanna, ‘Unsettling Australia: Modernity and Mobility in Some Recent Australian Fiction’ (unpublished MA Thesis, University of Melbourne, 2011).

Profiles

Peacock, Tracy, ‘Participatory Approach Gives Pupils a Voice’, The Australian, 23 January 2002, p. 22.
Sibree, Bron, ‘The Window of Identity’, The Courier Mail, 26 October 2002, p. 5. Also published as ‘Biography As Image’, The Canberra Times, 27 October 2002, p. 37.
Hall, James, ‘Literary Mirror a Witty Reflection’, The Australian, 2 May 2003, p. 18.
Sibree, Bron, ‘Writing in Light: Insights in a Flash’, The Canberra Times, 21 August 2004, pp. 1–2. Also published as ‘Artistic Light into the Future’, The West Australian, 28 August 2004, p. 7, and in The Courier Mail, 4 September 2004, and as ‘Writing in Light’, in The Courier Mail, 4 September 2004.
Tuffield, Aviva, ‘Parallel Lives’, Sydney Morning Herald, 11 February 2006, pp. 20–21. Also published in a longer version as ‘On Intimate Terms’, in The Age, 19 February 2006, p. 16. [available online]
Sibree, Bron, ‘Patterns of Time and Tide’, The West Australian, 25 January 2011. [available online] Also published as Quay to It All’, The Canberra Times, 29 January 2011, p. 21, and ‘The Cycles of Life’, The Courier Mail, 5 February 2011, p. 23.
Keenan, Catherine, ‘Gail Jones’, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February 2011, pp. 30–31. [available online] Also published online as ‘Novelist Gail Jones Explores Tacky Tourist Traps’, in Sydney Morning Herald, 5 February 2011, and ‘The Ring of Time’, in The Saturday Age, 5 February 2011, pp. 28–29.
McGregor, Fiona, ‘Gail Jones’, Readings, 7 February 2011. [available online]
Cassidy, Bonny, ‘Supporting Justice and the Power of the Individual Voice’, Sydney PEN Magazine, 1 November 2011, 5. [available online]
Wyndham, Susan, ‘Gail Jones’, Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 2015, p. 24. [available online] Also published in The Age, 8 August 2015, p. 24, and as ‘A Guide to Berlin by Gail Jones Links Six Foreigners with the City’s Dark Past’ in Sydney Morning Herald, 8 August 2015.
Baum, Caroline, ‘Gail Jones: Novels Are Machines for Thinking as Well as Feeling’, Sydney Morning Herald, 6 April 2018.
Dow, Steve, ‘Gail Jones and the Art of Words’, The Saturday Paper, 195, 10 March 2018. Also published as ‘Noah’s Arc’ in the print edition of The Saturday Paper on 10 March 2018.
Morris, Linda, ‘Gail Jones Wins Prime Minister’s Literary Award’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 October 2019.

News

Carbines, Louise, ‘Writers Get Plaques as Joint Winners’, The Age, 20 February 1993, p. 5.
Thompson, Christina, ‘Warana’s Different Direction’, The Weekend Australian, 9 October 1993, p. 8.
Moran, Jennifer, ‘Jolley’s View of Life Is a Winner’, The West Australian, 19 November 1993, p. 1.
Moran, Rod, ‘Tough Call for Literary Awards’, The West Australian, 9 January 1998, p. 4.
Moran, Rod, ‘Literary Giants Cast a Double Shadow’, The West Australian, 28 February 1998, p. 43.
Banks, Ron, ‘All Bets Off at Writers’ Rave’, The West Australian, 4 February 2003, p. 6.
Tonkin, Boyd, ‘A Week in Books: 10 Distinctive Autumn Reads’, The Independent, 13 August 2004.
Sorensen, Rosemary, ‘Dark Downs Thriller Stands Tall on Short List’, The Courier Mail, 22 April 2005, p. 3.
Waldren, Murray, ‘Prize Fighters Booked for Crack at the Franklin’, The Australian, 22 April 2005.
‘WA’s Literary Standouts’, The West Australian, 30 April 2005, p. 9.
‘Forgotten Novel Proves a Winner’, The West Australian, 21 May 2005, p. 6.
‘More Accolades for “Sixty Lights”’, Australian Bookseller & Publisher, 1 July 2005, 6.
‘Miles Franklin Shortlist Announced’, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 April 2007.
Wyndham, Susan, ‘Westerners Have the Write Stuff’, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 April 2007.
Ley, James, ‘A List Both Short and Sweet’, Sydney Morning Herald, 28 April 2007, p. 37.
Steger, Jason, ‘And Then There Were Four’, The Age, 16 June 2007, pp. 26–27. [available online]
Edwards, Hannah, ‘2009 an HSC Odyssey’, The Sun-Herald, 22 July 2007, p. 9.
Stubbings, Diane, ‘How We Read This Year: Australian Fiction’, The Canberra Times, 15 December 2007, p. 11.
‘Gail Jones on IMPAC Shortlist’, Bookseller+Publisher, 87.9 (2008), 7.
Wyndham, Susan, ‘Author Takes the Slow Road to Success’, Sydney Morning Herald, 14 March 2008.
Moran, Rod, ‘WA Writer Has Eyes on Franklin for Third Time’, The West Australian, 18 April 2008, p. 7.
Naglazas, Mark, ‘Miles Ahead of the Rest’, The West Australian, 7 June 2008, pp. 26–27.
Sullivan, Jane, ‘Prize Writers’, The Age, 14 June 2008, pp. 28–29.
Moran, Rod, ‘Write of Way’, The West Australian, 15 November 2008, p. 26.
Wyndham, Susan, ‘Undercover’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 October 2010, p. 35.
Romei, Stephen, ‘Quills Celebrate Harbour Home’, The Australian, 16 May 2011, p. 3.
Romei, Stephen, ‘More Books of the Year’, The Australian, 24 December 2011, p. 16.
McEvoy, Marc, ‘Ladies’ Man Shortlisted’, The Sun-Herald, 11 March 2012, p. 7.
Wyndham, Susan, ‘Miles Franklin Longlist Has Room for Both Genders’, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 March 2012, p. 5.
McEvoy, Marc, ‘Women of Words’, The Sun-Herald, 20 May 2012, p. 19.
‘A Ringing Endorsement’, The Advertiser, 26 July 2012, p. 25.
Romei, Stephen, ‘Tales of City and the Sea Take Out Top Awards’, The Australian, 26 July 2012, p. 7.
Steger, Jason, ‘Women Provide Literary Spark’, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July 2012.
Wyndham, Susan, ‘Dark Memories of Harbour Inspired an Award-Winner’, Sydney Morning Herald, 26 July 2012, p. 13.
McEvoy, Marc, ‘Five Bells Wins Kibble’, The Sun-Herald, 29 July 2012, p. 15.
‘New Books: Writers and Their Cities’, World Literature Today, August 2012, 8.
Wyndham, Susan, ‘Expat Clive James Honoured for “Prolific” Career’, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 December 2012, p. 2.
Sullivan, Jane, ‘Turning Pages: The Lost or Forgotten Classic Novels That Should Be Back in Print’, Sydney Morning Herald, 1 October 2015.
‘The Inaugural Australia Short Story Festival Launches with a Vibrant Program!’, Oztix, 11 October 2016. [available online]
Boland, Michaela, ‘Deltora Quest’s Emily Rodda One of Six Australian Authors Recognised in Prime Minister’s Literary Awards’, ABC News, 23 October 2019. [available online]
Clark, Simon, ‘Gail Jones and Judith Beveridge amongst the Winners at the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards for 2019’, The AU Review, 23 October 2019. [available online]
Convery, Stephanie, ‘Gail Jones Wins $80,000 Fiction Prize with Noah Glass in Prime Minister’s Literary Awards’, The Guardian, 23 October 2019.
Morris, Linda, ‘Gail Jones Wins Prime Minister’s Literary Award’, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 October 2019.
Romei, Stephen, ‘Bible History on Scott Morrison’s Reading List’, The Australian, 23 October 2019.
Romei, Stephen, ‘Winning Author Gail Jones Airs Dismay at Sydney University’, The Australian, 23 October 2019.
Sandham, Emma, ‘Literary Success for Western Sydney University in the 2019 Prime Ministers Awards’, Western Sydney University News Centre, 24 October 2019. [available online]
Harman, Miranda, ‘Author Gail Jones Wins Three-Month Hedberg Writing Residency’, Communications Office: Media Release, University of Tasmania, 12 January 2022.[available online] Also published on the website of the University of Tasmania, 18 January 2022. [available online]
Davison, Sarah, ‘Gail Jones Has Been Awarded the 2022 Hedberg Writer in Residence Award’, The Examiner, 19 January 2022.
‘Gail Jones Is the 2022 Hedberg Writer in Resident’, University of Tasmania, January 2022.

Reviews

The House of Breathing

Publishers Weekly, 1 March 2000. [available online]
Goodreads, 2010. [available online]
B., B., ‘Bookshelf’, Australian Women’s Book Review, 4.4 (1992), 35.
Bishop, Tom, ‘Short Stories Search for the “Novel”’, Antipodes, 7.1 (1993), 77–78.
Brydon, Diana, ‘Refabricating the Unfashionable Real’, Antipodes, 15.1 (2001), 48–49.
Coad, David, World Literature Today, 75.2 (2001), 313. [available online]
De Garis, Jenny, Fremantle Arts Review, 8.2–3 (1993), 15–16.
Mills, Claire, ‘Forecasts’, Australian Bookseller & Publisher, 71.1026 (1992), 22.
Nathan, Leslie, Rain Taxi, 5.4 (2000).
Nettelbeck, Amanda, Westerly, 37.3 (1992), 93–94. [available online]
Peake, Cathy, ‘Change of Voice and of Place’, review of Passion, by Nick Earls, The House of Breathing, by Gail Jones, Jumping at the Moon, by Venero Armanno, and Australian Short Stories, by Lyn Harwood and Bruce Pascoe, Sydney Morning Herald, 22 August 1992, p. 42.
Peek, Andrew, ‘Uneven Ground Worth Crossing’, Australian Book Review, 142, 1992, 16–17.
Stasko, Nicolette, ‘Language, the Instrument of Fiction’, review of The Toucher, by Dorothy Hewett, The Seal Woman, by Beverley Farmer, and The House of Breathing, by Gail Jones, Southerly: The Journal of the English Association, 53.4 (1993), 174–82.
Windsor, Gerard, ‘Kiss of Life for Short Story’, The Weekend Australian, 22 August 1992, p. 4.

Fetish Lives

Publishers Weekly, 31 August 1998. [available online]
Kirkus Reviews, 1 July 1998. [available online]
Goodreads, 2007. [available online]
Brook, Barbara, ‘Madeleines and Kalamata Olives’, Australian Women’s Book Review, 9.1 (1997), 35, 43.
Daylight, Tegan Bennett, ‘Confusion and Clarity’, review of Black Sails, White Sails, by Ursula Dubosarsky, and Fetish Lives, by Gail Jones, The Weekend Australian, 5 April 1997, p. 8.
Geczy, Adam, HEAT, 8, 1998, 190–93.
Halligan, Marion, Westerly, 42.2 (1997), 123–25. [available online]
Jacobs, Lyn, ‘Life as Art - Body as Text’, Australian Book Review, 188, 1997, 22–23.
Krug, Nora, The New York Times, 11 October 1998, p. 11. [available online]
Lebkowicz, Lesley, ‘Echoes and Reflections of Other Lives’, The Canberra Times, 22 March 1997, p. 10.
MacDonald-Grahame, Carmel, ‘Caverns Beyond Narrative’, Overland, 149, 1997, 99–100.
Niall, Brenda, ‘All Abroad the Ghost Train’, The Age, 19 April 1997, p. 8.

Black Mirror

Readings, 2009. [available online]
Goodreads, 2009. [available online]
Adelaide, Debra, ‘In Short’, Sydney Morning Herald, 7 December 2002, p. 15.
Anderson, Don, et al., ‘Best Books of the Year 2002’, includes a short review, by Ian Britain, of Black Mirror, by Gail Jones, Australian Book Review, 247, 2002.
Armstrong, Judith, ‘In Retrospect’, Australian Book Review, 248, 2003, 39.
Coronel, Tim, Australian Bookseller & Publisher, 82.2 (2002), 34.
Gelder, Ken, ‘Yearning for Difference’, review of Father Lands, by Emily Ballou, and Black Mirror, by Gail Jones, Overland, 174, 2004, 135–37.
Goldsworthy, Kerryn, ‘Voices on the Margins’, The Weekend Australian, 21 September 2002, p. 12.
Herlander, Jana, ‘Ways of Seeing’, review of Black Mirror and Dreams of Speaking, by Gail Jones, Belletrista, 8, 2010. [available online]
Kellas, Anne, ‘Eerie Surreal Versimilitude’, Island, 91, 2002, 81–83.
On, Thuy, ‘Expatriates in the Realm of the Unconscious’, review of Black Mirror, by Gail Jones, and Jazz Tango, by Tracy Ryan, The Age, 28 September 2002, p. 7.
Sorensen, Rosemary, ‘Booking the Best’, review of The Hamilton Case, by Michelle de Kretser, Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna, by Peter Singer, Black Mirror, by Gail Jones, Wings of the Kite-Hawk, by Nicholas Rothwell, and The Point, by Marion Halligan, The Courier Mail, 6 September 2003, pp. 1–2.

Sixty Lights

The Age, 21 August 2004. [available online]
Readings, 2005. [available online]
Goodreads, 2005. [available online]
Austen, Tom, ‘Strange by Name, Not Nature’, The West Australian, 22 January 2005, p. 9.
Battersby, Eileen, ‘The Power and Intensity of Love’, The Irish Times, 18 September 2004. [available online]
Boddy, Kasia, ‘A Visionary Victorian’, The Telegraph, 19 September 2004.
Bradley, James, ‘Humanity in Focus Through a Camera Lens’, The Age, 21 August 2004, p. 4.
Clark, Alex, ‘The Wish to Beautify’, The Times Literary Supplement, 5303, 2004, 25.
Davison, Liam, ‘Framed by Loss’, The Weekend Australian, 14 August 2004, p. 12. Includes an extract from Sixty Lights.
Elderkin, Susan, ‘My Brilliant Career’, The Guardian, 25 September 2004. [available online]
England, Katharine, ‘A Shining Light’, The Advertiser, 18 September 2004, p. 11.
England, Katharine, ‘Instant Connection’, The Advertiser, 18 February 2006, p. 10.
Kimbofo, Reading Matters, 24 May 2006. [available online]
Lever, Susan, ‘Reading Groups and Creative Writing Courses: The Year’s Work in Fiction’, includes a review of Sixty Lights, by Gail Jones, Westerly, 49, 2004, 164–75.
Ley, James, ‘Celluloid Path to Enlightenment’, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 September 2004, p. 10.
Martea, Ion, Culture Wars, 1 February 2004.
Minson, Madeleine, ‘Images From A Life’, Literary Review, November 2004.
Mulcrone, Katherine, ‘Jones Captures Strange Life’, Antipodes, The Sacred in Australian Literature, 19.2 (2005), 223.
Orpen Kanter, Joy, ‘Passages From a Long-Gone Exotic India’, The Independent, 19 September 2004.
Rose, Jessica, Past Books, 8 April 2014. [available online]
Sayer, Rosemary, Asian Review of Books, October 2004. [available online]
Shachar, Hila, ‘This Week You’re Reading’, The West Australian, 3 November 2012, p. 21.
Susskind, Anne, ‘Strange Days’, The Bulletin, 122.6439 (2004), 65.
Taylor, Belle, ‘Local Classics’, includes a review of Sixty Lights, by Gail Jones, The West Australian, 12 September 2009, p. 12.
Wimmer, Adi, Zeitschrift Für Australienstudien, 21–22, 2007, 228–30.

Dreams of Speaking

Readings, 2007. [available online]
Goodreads, 2007. [available online]
Alev, Adil, The Independent, 31 March 2006. [available online]
Battersby, Eileen, ‘Sleepwalking With Nothing Left to Chance’, The Irish Times, 25 March 2006. [available online]
Blakeney, Sally, ‘Ring Cycle’, The Bulletin, 124.6507 (2006), 68–69.
Bradley, James, ‘The Gift of Sound and Vision’, The Age, 4 February 2006, p. 24.
Brady, Veronica, ‘On My Bedside Table’, review of Cabin Fever, by Elizabeth Jolley, and Dreams of Speaking, by Gail Jones, The West Australian, 3 November 2007, p. 42.
Briscoe, Joanna, ‘Too Much in Words’, The Guardian, 8 April 2006. [available online]
Bush, Duncan, ‘Machine Dreams’, The London Magazine, March 2007, pp. 109–11.
Daniel, Lucy, ‘You Keep Me Hanging On’, The Telegraph, 2 April 2006.
Dooley, Gillian, The Adelaide Review, 298, 2006, 17.
Elliott, Helen, ‘Alice in Ponder Land A Bridge Too Far’, The West Australian, 18 February 2006, p. 7.
Fitzgerald, Michael, ‘Slipping Into the Light’, Time, 24 January 2006. [available online]
Goldsworthy, Kerryn, ‘An Image of Sound Waves’, Australian Book Review, 278, 2006, 26. [available online]
Hamilton, Sorcha, ‘Paperbacks’, includes a review of Dreams of Speaking, by Gail Jones, The Irish Times, 23 August 2008. [available online]
Herlander, Jana, ‘Ways of Seeing’, review of Black Mirror and Dreams of Speaking, by Gail Jones, Belletrista, 8, 2010. [available online]
Keenan, Catherine, ‘Twists Turn Dreams into Nightmare’, The Sun-Herald, 29 January 2006, p. 66.
Kenneally, Catherine, ‘Praise of Modernity Sculpted in Hopeless Silence’, The Weekend Australian, 18 February 2006, pp. 8–9.
Khorana, Sukhmani, New Ways of Seeing: Poetry, Ethnography, Photography, 6 October 2007. [available online]
Lhuede, Elizabeth, Devoted Eclectic, 7 January 2012. [available online]
Lyall-Watson, Katherine, Bookseller+Publisher, 85.7 (2006), 47.
Matchett, Stephen, ‘Blood on the Plot’, review of What I Loved, by Siri Hustvedt, Dreams of Speaking, by Gail Jones, and Sputnik Sweetheart, by Haruki Murakami, The Weekend Australian, 16 September 2006, p. 40.
Mulcrone, Katherine, ‘Closing the Spaces Between Us’, Antipodes, 20.2 (2006), 202.
Peulen, Joanne, ‘Teaser Tuesday’, Booklover Book Reviews, 25 January 2011. [available online]
Peulen, Joanne, Booklover Book Reviews, 31 January 2011. [available online]
Pugh-Thomas, Claudia, The Times Literary Supplement, 17 March 2006, 21.
Rußegger, Arno, review of Der Traum vom Sprechen (Dreams of Speaking), by Gail Jones, trans. by Conny Lösch, Zeitschrift Für Australienstudien, 21–22, 2007, 225–27.
Shapcott, Thomas, ‘Australian Fiction 2005-2006’, includes a review of Dreams of Speaking, by Gail Jones, Westerly, 51, 2006, 108–19.
Sharp, Diamond, Diamond Sharp, 30 October 2010. [available online]
Stubbings, Diane, ‘Yearning Expressed in Elegant Prose’, The Canberra Times, 4 February 2006, p. 13.
Weaver, Rachael, ‘Histories of the Present’, review of The Unknown Terrorist, by Richard Flanagan, Dreams of Speaking, by Gail Jones, Underground, by Andrew McGahan, The Unexpected Elements of Love, by Kate Legge, Overland, Winter 2007, pp. 81–85.

Sorry

Goodreads, 2007. [available online]
Readings, 2008. [available online]
Adil, Alev, ‘What is Left Unspoken Shapes and Shadows These Lives in Outback Australia’, The Independent, 27 July 2007.
Cornwell, Jane, ‘Faith in a Sorry Life’, The Australian, 16 June 2007, p. 12.
England, Katharine, ‘The Hardest Word’, The Advertiser, 19 May 2007, p. 10.
Griffin, Michelle, ‘Tricky Bits’, Australian Book Review, 291, 2007, 10–11.
HappyHobbit, Sarah, The Happy Hobbit’s Bookshelf, 8 March 2014. [available online]
Hunt, Kathy, ‘Poor Excuse for Art’, The Weekend Australian, 16 June 2007, p. 13.
Jaggi, Maya, ‘Days of Atonement’, The Guardian, 26 May 2007.
Kimbofo, Reading Matters, 1 June 2008. [available online]
Kossew, Sue, ‘The Case for Gail Jones’ Sorry’, The Conversation, 21 July 2014. [available online]
Leigh, Danny, ‘A Lack of Shade’, The Times Literary Supplement, 5440, 2007, 25.
Ley, James, ‘Poetry’s Vision Fills a Chaotic Void’, Sydney Morning Herald, 5 May 2007, pp. 32–33.
Lhuede, Elizabeth, ‘More Meditation Than Murder’, Devoted Eclectic, 18 December 2012. [available online]
Maier, Heidi, ‘Books Fiction’, The Courier Mail, 14 July 2007, p. 22.
Meyer, Angela, ‘Modes of Connections’, Australian Women’s Book Review, 19.1 (2007), 13–15.
Mulcrone, Katherine, ‘Jones Has Nothing to Apologize For’, ed. by Nathanael O’Reilly and Jean-François Vernay, Antipodes, Fear in Australian Literature and Film, 23.1 (2009), 95–96.
Schwerin, Catherine, Zeitschrift Für Australienstudien, 21–22, 2007, 220–24.
Stubbings, Diane, ‘Peace without Atonement’, The Canberra Times, 5 May 2007, p. 12.

Five Bells

Publishers Weekly, 258.11 (2011), 29.[available online]
Goodreads, 2011.[available online]
Allington, Patrick, et al.,‘Books of the Year 2011’, includes a review, by Gillian Dooley, of Five Bells, by Gail Jones, Australian Book Review, 337, 2011, 27–31. [available online]
Auck Nicholls, Jessica, Meanjin, 31 December 2013. [available online]
Boland, John, Musings of a Literary Dilettante, 8 June 2011. [available online]
Bradley, James, Griffith Review, 2015. [available online]
Bramley-Moore, Gillian, ‘Fiction Reviewed’, The Courier Mail, 5 February 2011, p. 24.
Clarke, Stella, ‘Her Time’, The Australian, 29 January 2011, p. 18.
Kimbofo, Reading Matters, 22 June 2011. [available online]
Nelson, Alice, ‘Five Bells is Five-Star Thrill’, The West Australian, 15 March 2011, p. 7.
Peulen, Joanne, Booklover Book Reviews, 6 May 2012. [available online]
Pierce, Peter, ‘Peace Befalls Clamour as Strange Stories Ring True’, The Age, 29 January 2011, p. 21.
Pierce, Peter, ‘Taut but Expansive Tale’, The Canberra Times, 29 January 2011, p. 22.
Plunkett, Felicity, ‘Strange Sea Creatures’, Australian Book Review, 328, 2011, 34–35.
Riemer, A. P., ‘Ulysses and Mrs Dalloway Catch the Circular Quay Ferry’, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 February 2011, pp. 30–31.
Romei, Stephen, ‘Books of the Year’, includes a review of Five Bells, by Jones Gail, The Australian, 17 December 2011, p. 18.
Salter Reynolds, Susan, ‘Discoveries: Gail Jones’, Los Angeles Review of Books, 24 March 2012. [available online]
Sussex, Lucy, ‘Cover Notes’, and The Shelley Beach Writers’ Group, by June Loves, The Sunday Age, 6 February 2011, p. 21.
Tingelstad, Catherine, Library Journal, 136.20 (2011), 115.
Whish-Wilson, David, ‘The Year’s Work in Fiction: 2010-2011’, Westerly, 56.1 (2011), 167–88.
Williamson, Geordie, ‘Hot Off the Presses’, The Australian, 4 December 2010, p. 22.
Zott, Debra, Transnational Literature, 4.1 (2011).

A Guide to Berlin

Goodreads, 2015. [available online]
Crane, Katy, ‘The Vladimir Nabokov Book Club’, Antipodes, 30.1 (2016), 227. [available online]
Crispin, Jess, ‘A Shallow Tale of Nabokov-Reading Expats’, The Guardian, 23 January 2016. [available online]
Davies, Cassie, ‘Powerful’, The Telegraph, 8 January 2016.
De Valle, Jordana, MOJO News, 9 October 2015. [available online]
Dooley, Gillian, ‘Speak, Memory’, Australian Book Review, 374, 2015, 10.
England, Katharine, ‘Well Read’, The Advertiser, 29 August 2015, p. 28.
Harvey, Melinda, ‘Gail Jones and the Influence of Vladimir Nabokov’, Sydney Morning Herald, 12 September 2015.
Harvey, Melinda, ‘Speaking of the Past and Nabokov in a Chilly Berlin’, The Sunday Age, 20 September 2015, p. 29.
Kimbofo, Reading Matters, 28 January 2016. [available online]
Kitchener, Sam, ‘Heavy-handed Take on Nabokov’, The Independent, 14 January 2016. [available online]
Lever, Susan, ‘Innocent Abroad’, Inside Story, 31 August 2015.
Maxted, Luke, ‘Ode to Detail’, The Times Literary Supplement, 5887, 2016, 20.
Power, Elke, Books+Publishing, 21 July 2015. [available online]
Shaw, Jonathan, Me Fail? I Fly! Family Life, Formerly a .Mac Blog, Continued and Rejigged, 13 May 2016. [available online]
Walker, Brenda, The Monthly, 115, 2015, 57.
Williamson, Geordie, ‘Nabokov Haunts Gail Jones’s A Guide to Berlin’, The Australian, 11 September 2015.
Williamson, Geordie, ‘Nabokov Casts a Long Shadow’, The Australian, 9 December 2015, p. 20.
Yeoman, William, ‘Goddess of Small Things’, The West Australian, 14 August 2015.
Young, Robyne, Newtown Review of Books, 17 December 2015. [available online]

The Death of Noah Glass

Goodreads, 2018. [available online]
Edwards, Astrid, The Garret: Writers on Writing, 2 April 2018.
Elizabeth, Angela, Books + Publishing, 22 February 2018. [available online]
Goldsworthy, Kerryn, ‘“The long Now of Grieving”: Gail Jones’s New Novel’, Australian Book Review, 400, 2018, 53–55.
JR, The Saturday Paper, 201, 2018. [available online]
Pierce, Peter, ‘An Unconventional Exploration of Love, Loss and Crime’, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 May 2018. [available online]
Webb, Jen, ‘Grief, Racism and Uncertain Futures: Your Guide to the 2019 Miles Franklin Shortlist’, The Conversation, 29 July 2019. [available online]
Wyndham, Susan, ‘All Aboard the Ark of Life’, The Australian, 31 March 2018.
Wyndham, Susan, ‘More Than a Mystery’, The Australian, 30 March 2018.

Our Shadows

Goodreads, 2020. [available online]
Brudy, Tristen, Readings, 2 October 2020. [available online]
Dobbs ,Katie, ‘Matches in the Dark’, Sydney Review of Books, 7 March 2022. [available online]
Farnsworth, Katelin, Mascara Literary Review, 5 October 2021. [available online]
Kavanagh, Bec, ‘A Quiet Rejection of Conformity in the Kalgoorlie Mines’, The Guardian, 22 October 2020. [available online]
Kossew, Sue, ‘Things Known and Foreknown: A Virtuoso Performance from Gail Jones’, Australian Book Review, 425, 2020, 22–23.
Nisbet, Gemma, The West Australian, 24 October 2020.
Paull, Emily, ‘The Great Wave of Family History Hangs Over the Characters in Gail Jones’s Our Shadows’, The AU Review, 3 November 2020. [available online]
Rose, Peter, ‘Author Gail Jones Mines the Past for a Sororial Sense of the Present’, Sydney Morning Herald, 4 December 2020.
Williamson, Geordie, The Saturday Paper, 324, 2020.

Salonika Burning

Goodreads, 2022. [available online]
‘Five Great Summer Readings As Selected by Neos Kosmos’ Team’, Neos Kosmos, 7 January 2023. [available online]
‘Text Publishing’s Reviews: Salonika Burning’, Goodreads, 25 August 2022. [available online]
Bird, Carmel, The Saturday Paper, 19 November 2022.
Convery et al., Stephanie, ‘“Remarkable”, “Gorgeous”, “Entertaining”: The Best Australian Books Out in November’, The Guardian, 6 November 2022. [available online]
Dalziell, Tanya, ‘Time Is Arrested in Gail Jones’ Beautiful New Novel of War and Art, Salonika Burning’, The Conversation, 19 December 2022. [available online]
Hill, Lisa, ANZ LitLovers, 23 November 2022. [available online]
Kavanagh, Bec, ‘Wartime Novels Feels Miraculously Fresh’, The Guardian, 17 November 2022.
Nichols, Claire, Kate Evans, Sarah L’Estrange, and Declan Fry, ‘The Best New Books Released in November as Selected by Avid Readers and Critics’, incl. audio review of Salonika Burning by ABC Radio National: The Bookshelf, ABC News, November 2022.[available online]
Nisbet, Gemma, The West Australian, 3 December 2022. [available online]
Nisbet, Gemma, Westerly Magazine, The Editor's Desk, 10 July 2023. [available online]
Nott, Nancy, ‘Painfully Beautiful Historical Fiction from the Mind of a Celebrated Writer’, Artshub, 7 November 2022. [available online]
Shiells, Joanne, Books+Publishing, 23 August 2022. [available online]
Skoufatoglou, Nelly, ‘Salonika Burning, a Haunting Antiwar Novel Dives into the Past to Wake Us up to the Present’, Neos Kosmos, 6 December 2022. [available online]
Stubbings, Diane, ‘Dismantled Lives’, Australian Book Review, November 2022, 37–38.
Williamson, Geordie, ‘Best of 2022: Part One’, The Saturday Paper, 17 December 2022.

The Piano

French, Lisa, ‘Passionate Encounters with Jane Campion’s “Cinematic Consciousness”’, review of Jane Campion, by Kathleen McHugh, and The Piano, by Gail Jones, Senses of Cinema, 45, 2007. [available online]
Hopgood, Fincina, review of Alvin Purple, by Catherine Lumby, and The Piano, by Gail Jones, Australasian Drama Studies, 54, 2009, 207–11.
Kretzschar, Mandy, Zeitschrift Für Australienstudien, 23, 2009, 180–85.
Luby, Barbara, Metro Magazine: Media & Education Magazine, 156, 2008, 186.
Wilson, Janet, Australian Book Review, 294, 2007, 61. Also published in: Reviews in Australian Studies, 3.6 (2008).

Miscellaneous

‘Author Gail Jones’, CopyrightAgency, 3 July 2019.
‘The Death of Noah Glass’, The Stella Prize, 2019.
Cranenburgh, Melissa, ‘Backstory - 6 January 2021’, 3RRR Digital: Backstory, 6 January 2021.
Curtin, Amanda, ‘Past Events Photos, 2019’, Amanda Curtin, 2019. [available online]
Etherington, Ben, ‘Gail Jones – Inner and Outer Worlds’, book launch, Gleebooks, 2022.
Evans, Kate,‘Blazing Stories: New Fiction from Gail Jones, Alex Miller and Luke Carman’, ABC Radio National: The Bookshelf, 11 November 2022. [available online]
Evans, Kate, and Cassie McCullagh, ‘The Book Club No 8: Mining the Past’, ABC Radio National: The Bookshelf, 4 December 2020.
Lowres, Catherine, ‘The Text Publishing Company: January–June 2020’, Cloudfront.Net, 2020. [available online]
Midalia, Susan, ‘Fetish Lives: Gail Jones - Book Club Notes’, Fremantle Press.
Uhlmann, Anthony, ‘Textuality in Gail Jones’ Fiction’ (paper presented at the AATE/IFTE ‘If’ Conference, Sydney, NSW, 2020).
Waud, Liz, ‘Five Bells by Gail Jones’, CAE Book Groups, Book Discussion Notes, 2112, 2011.
‘The Text Publishing Company: London Rights Guide 2022’ (Text Publishing Company, Spring 2022).

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