Guy Newell Boothby was a prolific Australian novelist and writer, noted for sensational fiction in variety magazines around the end of the nineteenth century. He lived mainly in England. He is best known for such works as the Dr Nikola series, about an occultist criminal mastermind who is a Victorian forerunner to Fu Manchu, and Pharos, the Egyptian, a tale of Gothic Egypt, mummies' curses and supernatural revenge. Rudyard Kipling was his friend and mentor, and his books were remembered with affection by George Orwell.
Benjamin Boothby was a South Australian colonial judge, who was removed from office for misbehaviour, one of four Australian supreme court judges removed in the 19th century.
Arthur Wellington Ware CMG was a brewer and Mayor of Adelaide from 1898 to 1901 and a publican in both South Australia and Queensland.
Ambrose Goddard Hesketh Pratt was an Australian writer born into a cultivated family in Forbes, New South Wales.
Carl Adolph Feilberg, also spelt Carl Adolf Feilberg, was a Danish-born Australian journalist, newspaper editor, general political commentator, and Indigenous rights activist.
Frank Atha Westbury, who wrote under the pen names of "Atha" and "Atha Westbury", was a popular and prolific author of mystery adventure novels, children's stories and poetry in late 19th century Australia and New Zealand. Most of his fiction was serialised in newspapers and journals between 1879 and 1905. His two major works were: The Shadow of Hilton Fernbrook, A Romance of Maoriland (1896) and Australian Fairy Tales (1897), which won him a place as one of the better-known writers for children in Victorian-era Australia. Many of his novels were adventure romances set in New Zealand at the time of the New Zealand Wars of the 1860s, which the author experienced as a soldier in the British Army.
The Climate of Courage is a 1954 novel by Australian writer Jon Cleary. It was his fifth published novel. It is set during World War II and involves a group of Australian soldiers who have returned from service in the Middle East.
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1901.
The Mad Doctor is a 1935 novel by Australian author F. J. Thwaites, a melodramatic medical romance set in Africa.
The Woman of Death (1900) is a novel by Australian writer Guy Boothby.
In Strange Company : a story of Chili and the southern seas (1894) is a novel by Australian writer Guy Boothby.
Trent Dalton is an Australian novelist and journalist. He is best known for his 2018 semi-autobiographical novel Boy Swallows Universe.
William Ramage Lawson, generally referred to as W. R. Lawson, was a British journalist, economist and author.
John George Haslette Vahey was a versatile and prolific Northern Irish author of detective fiction in the genre's Golden Age in the 1920s and 1930s. Although his work has remained largely out of print since the end of the golden age, he is now enjoying a resurgence of popularity, and some of his work is again in print, or available as e-books.
The Barrakee Mystery (1929) is a novel by Australian writer Arthur Upfield. It was the second of the author's novels, his first crime novel and the first to feature his recurring character Detective Inspector Napoleon 'Bony' Bonaparte. It was originally published in the UK by Hutchinson in 1929, and subsequently serialised in The Herald in Melbourne in 42 daily instalments between 23 July and 9 September 1932.
A Bid for Fortune; Or, Doctor Nikola's Vendetta (1895) is a novel by Australian writer Guy Boothby. It was his first novel to feature his recurring character Dr. Nikola. It was originally serialised in The Windsor Magazine : An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women over 22 issues in 1895, and was then published in the United Kingdom by Ward, Lock and Bowden in the same year.
Doctor Nikola (1896) is a novel by Australian writer Guy Boothby. It was his second novel to feature his recurring character Dr. Nikola. It was originally serialised in The Windsor Magazine : An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women over 8 issues in 1896, and in The Argus newspaper in Melbourne before it was then published in book form in the United Kingdom by Ward, Lock and Bowden in the same year.
The Lust of Hate (1897) is a novel by Australian writer Guy Boothby. It was his third novel to feature his recurring character Dr. Nikola. It was originally serialised in several Australian newspapers in 1897, before it was then published in book form in the United Kingdom by Ward, Lock and Bowden in 1898.
Dr Nikola's Experiment (1899) is a novel by Australian writer Guy Boothby. It was his fourth novel to feature his recurring character Dr. Nikola. It was published in book form in the United Kingdom by Hodder and Stoughton in 1899.
The Childerbridge Mystery (1902) is a novel by Australian writer Guy Boothby.
