Margo Lanagan

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  • Bibliography:
    21 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1998
  • Latest Book:
    September 2021
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Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast

Tender Morsels (Oct-2008)

Fairytale Retellings: Snow White and Rose Red

Tender Morsels (Oct-2008)

Book List in Order: 21 titles

  • The Tankermen

    Finn thinks he has trouble enough, hanging out alone on the streets of Kings Cross, until he stumbles on sinister figures pumping vile-smelling sludge into the drains. Then his life starts to get seriously weird.Who - or what - are these Tankermen? H...

  • Walking Through Albert

    ''Someone else was suddenly there with us, taking up the same chunk of space. Aargh, it was the most horrible feeling, like millions of ants rampaging under my clothes...''What's going on in the house over the back? Ren and Lee are seriously spooked ...

  • WildGame

    A live animal leaping out of a video game? Unbelievable. And yet there it is in Macka's lap: soft and smelly, alert and terrified, like a real animal; but also glowing with strange energy.Can she get it back into the game alive? And - if she goes in ...

  • The Best Thing

    Mel's life is totally out of sync, at school, at home, everywhere. Pug is the only good thing - loving him, in his untidy room scented and shadowed with frangipani, she finds passionate fulfilment. But his world is so different from hers - can they p...

  • Touching Earth Lightly

    Janey's background is grim - lock-the-door-at-night-type grim - but nothing weighs her down for long. She's wild, sexy, reckless, funny. Being friends with Janey is a roller-coaster ride - never dull, often risky.Chloe is the steady one; she anchors ...

  • Black Juice

    As part of a public execution, a young boy forlornly helps to sing his sister down. . . . A servant learns about grace and loyalty from a mistress who would rather dance with Gypsies than sit on her throne. . . . A terrifying encounter with a demo...

  • White Time

    Ten brilliant stories to unsettle and intrigue from the astonishing Margo Lanagan, internationally acclaimed author of Black Juice. 'White Time is book of absolutely outstanding short stories . . . a collection of extraordinary richness and power t...

  • Red Spikes

    MARGO LANAGAN'S ELECTRIFYING stories take place in worlds not quite our own, and yet each one illuminates what it is to be human. They are stories of yearning for more, and learning to live with what you have. Stories that show the imprint love leave...

  • Tender Morsels

    Fairytale Retellings: Beauty and the Beast
    Fairytale Retellings: Snow White and Rose Red

    TENDER MORSELS IS a dark and vivid story, set in two worlds and worrying at the border between them. Liga lives modestly in her own personal heaven, a world given to her in exchange for her earthly life. Her two daughters grow up in this soft place, ...



  • A Thousand Flowers

    in Zombies Vs. Unicorns

    It’s time to decide: Team Zombie or Team Unicorn? A must-have anthology with contributions from bestselling YA authors is now available in paperback!It’s a question as old as time itself: Which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? This all-origi...

  • Anywhere But Earth

    Twenty-nine all new science fiction stories of humanity’s adventures out there, anywhere but Earth. Featuring original works by Margo Lanagan, Sean McMullen, Richard Harland and Kim Westwood among a galaxy of new and established Australian and over...

  • Cracklescape

    A presence haunts an old dresser in an inner-city share house. Shining sun-people lure children from their carefree beachside lives. Sheela-na-gigs colonise a middle-aged man’s outer and inner worlds. And a girl with a heavy conscience seeks relief...

  • The Brides of Rollrock Island

    On remote Rollrock Island, men go to sea to make their livings -- and to catch their wives. The witch Misskaella knows the way of drawing a girl from the heart of a seal, of luring the beauty out of the beast. And for a price a man may buy himself...

  • Yellowcake

    Yellowcake brings together ten short stories from the extraordinarily talented Margo Lanagan--each of them fiercely original and quietly heartbreaking. The stories range from fantasy and fairy tale to horror and stark reality, and yet what pervade...

  • X6

    Featuring Margo Lanagan’s World Fantasy Award winning ‘Sea-Hearts’, the multi-award winning ‘Wives’ by Paul Haines and original works by Terry Dowling, Trent Jamieson, Cat Sparks and Louise Katz, journey beyond the borders of the real with ...

  • Sea Hearts

    On remote Rollrock Island, the sea-witch Misskaella discovers she can draw a girl from the heart of a seal. So, for a price, any man might buy himself a bride; an irresistibly enchanting sea-wife. But what cost will be borne by the people of Rollr...

  • Tintinnabula

    In wild times and in wartime, in times of fear and illness, I go to Tintinnabula, where soft rains fall. Tintinnabula is a story about moving from discomfort to peace, from violence and uncertainty to a still, sure place. It reminds us that our best ...

  • Stray Bats

    Dachshund droids, mad crones, shapeshifting children, a plethora of witches, dragonstalkers, familiars, slithering eels and, of course, bats, flit and fly through these pages, aided and abetted by Kathleen Jennings’s deft and inspired pencil drawin...

  • Singing My Sister Down and other stories



  • Yellow Cake

  • Phantom Limbs

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Award-Winning Books by Margo Lanagan

Black Juice
2005 World Fantasy Award -- Collection
Sea Hearts
2010 World Fantasy Award -- Novella
Tender Morsels
2009 World Fantasy Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Margo Lanagan has published 21 books.

Margo Lanagan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Yellow Cake, was published in September 2021.

The first book by Margo Lanagan, WildGame, was published in January 1998.

No. Margo Lanagan does not write books in series.
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