John Bryson

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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1983
  • Latest Book:
    November 2017
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Book List in Order: 13 titles

  • Whoring Around

    Whoring Around, a novella in six stories.   Prologue Blowing It Between Whores Dreaming of Glory A Sense of Propriety   More and more we lunched at his tennis club. He had recently become its honorary treasurer. I remember an afternoon, wit...

  • To the Death

  • Among the Very Foreign

    Five Asian pieces, four from Kalimantan, Singapore, Taipei, Hong Kong, and one column piece from Samarinda, in one volume.   1. His Brow in Feathers, the Dyak Chieftain and his Equation for the Order of Time. A Festival of Redemption, led by the...

  • A Long Weekend In Belfast

    A novella sized piece covering the Ulster troubles, called the Stormont Riots, the street battles and intrigues of Ulster Protestants and IRA.   "John Bryson has the skills of literary journalism, and abundant luck" a Penguin Books copywriter wr...

  • In Rage, Rebellion

    In Rage, Rebellion - A volume comprising three feature pieces:   1. Backstage at the Revolution While the African National Congress was a banned organization in South Africa, and the white minority ruled with gunfire, the ANC theatre troupe Aman...

  • Islanders, Far South

    Islanders, Far South - Three feature pieces and one column piece in one volume, events in the lives of southern fishing communities in Tasmania.   1.Pride of the Crayfish Fleet. Life in the Bass Strait Islands, out of the Port of Lady Barron. &#...

  • The Personality of War

    The Personality of War - A volume comprising five pieces.   Dresden. Now an old man, a onetime Air Force flyer recalls his time in the night sky during the bombing of Dresden. For the incineration of a hundred and forty thousand souls, if things...

  • Three Revolutions

    Three Revolutions in the Equatorial Americas.   A volume of three feature pieces treating revolutions in each of Panama, Nicaragua and the building of tensions in Haiti.   1. In Panama, a Pantomime. Billed as support for a rebellion against...

  • To the Death, Amic

    A novel written true to the histories, and true to the memories of Enric Torres i Barbo, whose life and philosophies this novel takes for its guide.   Twin boys Enric and Josep, at ten years of age, served as spies and couriers in the Resistance...



  • Evil Angels

    The basis for the Meryl Streep film A Cry in the Dark: The dramatic true story of a mother’s worst nightmare and the murder trial that shocked Australia. On a camping trip at Ayer’s Rock, the Chamberlain family’s infant daughter disappeared in ...

  • Fancygoods, Over the Mountains

    Here is Brodie, an expatriate trader in New Guinea, whose understanding of the sorceries and rituals he now lives with is moving close to respect and wonderment. He watches his visiting daughter, a twelve year old, being captivated by this culture of...

  • Stories of Laughter and Lament

    Stories of Laughter and Lament, set among the filthy rich and the dirt poor, seven stories first selected and published by Penguin Books.   Widows Charles Rand fell off his yacht, somewhere in the middle of the bay, on one of the first pale blue...

  • A World This Size

    A World This Size.

    You will have a restaurant like this in your city.

    And, if you have spent time eating alone in restaurants, you will have felt the reverie of the imagination, which will cause you to scrutinise other diners for clues...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Bryson has published 13 books.

John Bryson does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Stories of Laughter and Lament, was published in November 2017.

The first book by John Bryson, Whoring Around, was published in May 1983.

No. John Bryson does not write books in series.
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