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Kathleen Jennings

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Kathleen Jennings is an Australian illustrator and writer. She studied to be a lawyer. But she has created many illustrations and cover art for books by successful authors. She won the 2015 Ditmar Awards Best Artwork for Cranky Ladies of History. Her writing awards include the 2015 Ditmar Awards mehr anzeigen Best Short Story for her work, A Hedge of Yellow Roses. She also won the Best Artist category of the 2015 Ditmar Awards. 030. weniger anzeigen
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Werke von Kathleen Jennings

Flyaway (2020) — Cover and interior artist, einige Ausgaben233 Exemplare
Kindling: Stories (2023) 19 Exemplare
Tor.com Publishing 2020 Debut Sampler (2020) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
The heart of Owl Abbas [SS] (2018) 4 Exemplare
Mouseskin 1 Exemplar
Skull and Hyssop 1 Exemplar
Arcanos Unraveled 1 Exemplar
Kindling: Stories (2024) 1 Exemplar
Envol (2023) 1 Exemplar

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Stranger Things Happen: Stories (2001) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben1,681 Exemplare
Was (1992) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben899 Exemplare
A Stranger in Olondria (2013) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben734 Exemplare
Ein Garten für Kinder oder Eine Posse. Roman. (1989) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben730 Exemplare
Fire Logic (2002) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben704 Exemplare
Earth Logic (2004) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben328 Exemplare
The Winged Histories (2016) — Umschlagillustration — 296 Exemplare
The Freedom Maze (2011) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben265 Exemplare
Monstrous Affections: An Anthology of Beastly Tales (2014) — Mitwirkender — 246 Exemplare
Water Logic (2007) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben240 Exemplare
What I Didn't See: Stories (2010) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben233 Exemplare
The Bread We Eat in Dreams: Stories (2013) — Illustrator, einige Ausgaben204 Exemplare
The Prisoner's Throne (2024) — Illustrator, einige Ausgaben201 Exemplare
Tremontaine: Season 1 (2017) — Illustrator, einige Ausgaben189 Exemplare
The Border Keeper (2019) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben176 Exemplare
Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter's Tales (2009) — Umschlagillustration — 168 Exemplare
Young Woman in a Garden: Stories (2014) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben92 Exemplare
Air Logic (2019) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben84 Exemplare
Cranky Ladies of History (2015) — Umschlagillustration — 84 Exemplare
Some of the Best of Tor.com 2021 Edition (2022) — Mitwirkender — 80 Exemplare
Emma Tupper's Diary (1971) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben77 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2015 Edition (2015) — Mitwirkender — 73 Exemplare
Telling the Map: Stories (2017) — Umschlagillustration, einige Ausgaben61 Exemplare
The Bitterwood Bible (2014) — Umschlagillustration — 60 Exemplare
The Book of Witches: An Anthology (2023) — Mitwirkender — 56 Exemplare
Waters of Versailles (2015) — Umschlagillustration — 46 Exemplare
Midnight and Moonshine (2012) — Umschlagillustration — 38 Exemplare
Cry Murder! in a Small Voice (2013) — Illustrator — 37 Exemplare
Domnall and the Borrowed Child (2015) — Umschlagillustration — 32 Exemplare
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2019 Edition (2019) — Mitwirkender — 25 Exemplare
The 400-Million-Year-Itch (2012) — Umschlagillustration — 24 Exemplare
To Spin a Darker Stair (2012) — Illustrator — 21 Exemplare
Exit, Pursued by a Bear (2014) — Umschlagillustration — 20 Exemplare
One Small Step: An Anthology of Discoveries (2013) — Mitwirkender — 16 Exemplare
The Silver Well (2017) — Illustrator, einige Ausgaben15 Exemplare
Black-Winged Angels (2014) — Illustrator — 14 Exemplare
Bloodlines (2015) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 27 (2011) — Umschlagillustration — 11 Exemplare
The Writer's Book of Doubt (2019) — Illustrator — 11 Exemplare
The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2015 (2017) — Mitwirkender — 9 Exemplare
Phantazein (2014) — Umschlagillustration — 9 Exemplare
The Year's Best Fantasy: Volume One (2022) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
Hear Me Roar (2015) — Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare
The Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror 2012 (2013) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
Bitter Distillations: An Anthology of Poisonous Tales (2020) — Mitwirkender — 7 Exemplare
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 31 (2014) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
Insert Title Here (2015) — Mitwirkender — 6 Exemplare
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 34 (2016) — Umschlagillustration — 5 Exemplare
Tor.com Nov/Dec 2023 Short Fiction — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Stray Bats (2019) — Illustrator — 5 Exemplare
Zeb and the Great Ruckus (2012) — Umschlagillustration — 4 Exemplare
Winds of Change (2011) — Illustrator — 3 Exemplare
Focus 2014 : highlights of Australian short fiction (2015) — Illustrator, einige Ausgaben; Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Mother Thorn and Other Tales of Courage and Kindness (2021) — Artwork, einige Ausgaben1 Exemplar

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Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.
This collection of short stories read as fairy tales, often as a play on well known works and with a truth at its heart. Jennings uses different writing styles, allowing each story to be a surprise, both in content and in structure. The stories are full of remarkable characters and places, but speak to the universal truths: love, freedom, companionship, identity. And lots of birds! I didn’t love every story, but I did love most. Unfortunately, the most difficult story is the first; you may want to visit that one last.… (mehr)
 
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strongstuff | 5 weitere Rezensionen | Jan 22, 2024 |
Fairy tale prose, an unreliable narrator, family secrets, and a fully realized, gothic-tinged rural Queensland setting make this debut novella an unmissable work of mythic horror.
 
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raschneid | 12 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 19, 2023 |
Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben.
Kathleen Jennings's strengths as an author lie primarily in coming up with sharp, unsettling fantasy concepts and drawing them out in vivid detail. The short story is perhaps the ideal length for this - Jennings's novella Flyaway was atmospheric and had striking moments, but the meandering plot left something to be desired.

The stories in this collection often revolve around women who are determined to get what they want at all costs. Many of them draw on fairy tales and folklore, but Jennings manages to find unusual twists that keep the stories fresh. "A Hedge of Yellow Roses" is a take on Sleeping Beauty that features an eternally-young noblewoman gone half-feral in her hundred or more years without human contact, and "Undine Love" mines the Princess and the Frog for a surprising amount of horror and tragedy (though it is also frequently funny). Despite their well-worn origins, none of these stories feel tired or predictable, which is impressive. Other standouts include "Skull and Hyssop", an adventure/mystery with some memorable bits of sailing-related fantasy worldbuilding, and "Not to Be Taken", a portrait of a morally ambiguous woman who gets in over her head with a dangerous man and must come up with a scheme to escape his clutches.

As is usually true of short story collections, not all of the stories are winners, and it's unfortunate that in this case that includes both the opening story (the dense and perhaps overly ornate "Heart of Owl Abbas") and the title story (the eminently forgettable "Kindling"). But on balance, there's more good than bad here, and I would recommend the collection to fans of dark fantasy that leans towards the literary.
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xenoglossy | 5 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 18, 2023 |
If this had been billed as poetry, my rating would have been higher. I would call this a poem or prose-poem rather than a story. There is no narrative, nor are there any characters. Considered as a poem, it’s not bad, though it’s not my preferred type of poetry. It’s an interesting look at fairy-tales, fairy-tale retellings, and stories generally. But it is not, itself, a story, and it does bill itself as one - hence my rating: Not unpleasant to read, but not a good or even average story. The cover is lovely.… (mehr)
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