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- Three Things About Elsie – elderly narrator, small-town mystery
- The Girl In The Spider’s Web – admin in exotic locations
- The Monsters Of Templeton – small-town family mythology
- Warlight –
- Harry Potter And The Methods Of Rationality – fix-it fic and then some
- Reilly’s Luck – gosh if only I didn’t have to shoot people
- Dark Canyon – gosh if only I didn’t have to shoot people
- The Mysterious Benedict Society – somewhere there is a completed checklist
- The Silence Of The Girls – her version of a story you’ve heard
- The Liar’s Gospel – his version of a story you’ve heard
- Waterland – barely-a-town-at-all family mythology
- T Tembarom – charming man is charming despite becoming rich
- North To The Rails – gosh I really wish these people would stop asking to be shot
- Shane – iconic
- Vagabondia – heroine very nearly dies of pale
- To The Far Blue Mountains – a dozen landscapes, many of them people
- The Seven Sisters – admin in exotic locations
- One Night In Winter –
- The Trauma Cleaner –
- Stealing Harry – an AU
- The Devil’s Alternative – the politics of famine
- The Buccaneers – a clutch of young women navigate acceptability
- The Mountain Valley War – gosh do I keep having to shoot people
- The Broker – admin in exotic locations
- Died In The Wool – espionage, sheep and shell-shock
- To Let – society changes while you’re watching
- Our Food, Our Land – all the downsides of intensive farming
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