Janette Turner Hospital

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  • Bibliography:
    14 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1983
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Book List in Order: 14 titles

  • Ivory Swing

    Juliet yearns for the 'ebb and flow of life lived avidly', for the pace and challenge of city living. The conflict between her love of husband and children and her own passionate need for expression is intensified by her move from small town ...

  • The Tiger in the Tiger Pit

    In this powerfully dramatic saga, a mother works to reunite her children with their ailing tyrannical father and with each other. Her son is a psychiatrist, one daughter is tragically schizophrenic, the other a free-spirited concert violinist whose y...

  • Borderline

    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...

  • Charades

    This stunning and intoxicating novel speaks of passion and obsession, ranging in setting from an Australian rainforest to Boston and Toronto. A mysterious and elusive love affair haunts the lives of three women in Australia. Twenty years later, on th...

  • Isobars

  • The Last Magician

    Charlie, a world-famous avant-garde photographer, is to all the world a successful adult. But deep within the fabric of his daily life float childhood memories that he cannot forget. He shares with three others knowledge of an act of ultimate cruelty...

  • Dislocations

    From the author of the highly praised novel Oyster, Dislocations is filled with "sensuous, speculative fictions about the experience of dislocation. . . . Stories develop like poems or meditations." (New York Times Book Review) These stories help us ...

  • Oyster

    From the acclaimed author of Due Preparations for the Plague comes a powerful Australian story. Stories do insist on being told. Even the stories of hidden lives and towns and opal reefs. By cunning intention, and sometimes by discreet bribery (or ot...

  • Inheritance

    Inheritance is a collection of 36 award-winning South Carolina short stories. These stories, chosen by editor Janette Turner Hospital, are among the winners of the long-running South Carolina Fiction Project conducted by the S.C. Arts Commission....



  • Due Preparations for the Plague

    From the author of ‘Oyster’ comes a powerful and gripping literary thriller that is as timely and relevant as it is chilling.Lowell feels contagious with doom. A divorced father with young children, he dreads the anniversary of a hijacked Paris-N...

  • North of Nowhere, South of Loss

    "A new standard for the short story genre that will be hard to surpass." --Library Journal

    In these prize-winning, "heartbreakingly nuanced" (Speakeasy) stories, Janette Turner Hospital explores the infinite incarnations of loss; lovers meetin...

  • Orpheus Lost

    Leela Moore is a brilliant math prodigy who escapes her small Southern town to study in Boston. From the moment she hears Mishka, dark and slender, playing his violin in the subway, she is drawn to him, and they quickly become lovers. One night Le...

  • The Claimant

    In the turbulent political summer of 1968, the lives of four very different people become inextricably intertwined. All four are shape-shifters, identity-switchers, two for criminal reasons, two for blameless purposes of survival. One of the four is ...

  • Forecast: Turbulence

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Janette Turner Hospital has published 14 books.

Janette Turner Hospital does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Forecast: Turbulence, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Janette Turner Hospital, Ivory Swing, was published in June 1983.

No. Janette Turner Hospital does not write books in series.
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