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Joan London

Biography

Joan London

Joan London is a bookseller and author living in Perth. She is the author of two short story collections --- SISTER SHIPS, which won The Age Book of the Year, and LETTER TO CONSTANTINE, which won the Steele Rudd Award as well as the West Australian Premier’s Award for Fiction --- and three novels: GILGAMESH, THE GOOD PARENTS and THE GOLDEN AGE.

Photo Credit: © Abby London

Joan London

Books by Joan London

The Golden Age
by Joan London - Fiction, Historical Fiction

Frank Gold’s family, Hungarian Jews, have fled the perils of World War II for the safety of Australia, but not long after their arrival, thirteen-year-old Frank is diagnosed with polio. He is sent to a sprawling children’s hospital called the Golden Age, where he meets Elsa, the most beautiful girl he has ever seen. Soon, Frank and Elsa fall in love, fueling one another’s rehabilitation, facing the perils of illness and adolescence hand in hand --- and scandalizing the prudish staff of the Golden Age.

Gilgamesh
by Joan London - Fiction