Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025
Rodney Hall

Rodney Hall’s Followers (21)

member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo
member photo

Rodney Hall


Born
in Solihull, The United Kingdom
November 18, 1935

Genre
Historical Fiction


Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland. Between 1967 and 1978 he was the Poetry Editor of The Australian. After a period living in Shanghai in the 1980s, Hall returned to Australia, and took up residence in Victoria.

Hall has twice won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and has received seven nominations for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, for which he has twice won ("Just Relations" in 1982 and "The Grisly Wife" in 1994). ...more

Combine Editions

Average rating: 3.6 · 654 ratings · 117 reviews · 63 distinct works • Similar authors
A Stolen Season
3.54 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Captivity Captive (Yandilli...
3.57 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1988 — 14 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Just Relations
3.69 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1982 — 14 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Island in the Mind
3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Second Bridegroom (Yand...
3.46 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1991 — 10 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Vortex
3.41 avg rating — 39 ratings — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
Silence
3.46 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Day We Had Hitler Home
3.03 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
The Grisly Wife (Yandilli T...
3.34 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
A Dream More Luminous than ...
3.92 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions
Rate this book
Clear rating
1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars
More books by Rodney Hall…

Series by Rodney Hall

The Second Bridegroom The Grisly Wife Captivity Captive
(3 books)
by
3.56 avg rating — 167 ratings

Quotes by Rodney Hall  (?)
Quotes are added by the Goodreads community and are not verified by Goodreads. (Learn more)

“It is our fate to give ourselves most lavishly
to those who'd rather not be burdened with the gift”
― Rodney Hall, The Owner of My Face: New & Selected Poems
tags: poetry
2 likes
Like

“an axiom of sorcery: If you come to know yourself
no one else can know you”
― Rodney Hall, The Owner of My Face: New & Selected Poems
tags: poem, self-knowledge
2 likes
Like

“Tomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himself
So our condition makes escape impossible?
-- we breathe

and it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle”
― Rodney Hall, The Owner of My Face: New & Selected Poems
tags: lies, stars, the-human-condition
1 likes
Like

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics posts views last activity  
The Seasonal Read...: Summer 2010 Plans 152 786 Aug 31, 2010 05:30PM  
A Million More Pages: This topic has been closed to new comments. Round 5: The Misguided Marples 233 56 Oct 08, 2015 08:42PM  
Literary Exploration: The Easy Challenge - 2015 63 190 Dec 27, 2015 12:44AM  
What's the Name o...: SOLVED. fat girl who has a hot boyfriend and people dont understand why he is with her [s] 12 204 Oct 26, 2016 04:04PM  
The Seasonal Read...: This topic has been closed to new comments. Completed Tasks: PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY POST IN THIS THREAD 2555 477 Nov 30, 2016 09:00PM  
Aussie Readers: Literary Fiction 451 419 Oct 31, 2018 07:29PM  
Around the Year i...: A to Z challenge 36 454 Jul 02, 2020 02:32AM  
Reading with Style: This topic has been closed to new comments. FA 22 EOTP Redux Planning 15 39 Aug 26, 2022 04:15PM  


Is this you? Let us know. If not, help out and invite Rodney to Goodreads.