Say Boo To Penny For Me
SAY BOO TO PENNY FOR ME (1998, Longman, an imprint of Pearson) Set in the near future, three close girlfriends are unwittingly drawn into a […]
AuthorJim Schembri
Murder in Aisle 9
MURDER IN AISLE 9 (2000, Lothian) Bored supermarket checkout girl Nelia Renetti begins to suspect one of her customers is cheating on his wife. She […]
Welcome to Minute 16
WELCOME TO MINUTE 16 (2000, Lothian) The career of teen soap opera starlet Amira Dolanes is in freefall. The public and the cold-hearted media tell […]
The Eight Lives of Stullie the Great
THE EIGHT LIVES OF STULLIE THE GREAT (Lothian, 2001) A lively, first-person tale about the often humourous, sometimes tragic misadventures of Brett Stulle – aka […]
The Lychee Conspiracy
THE LYCHEE CONSPIRACY (Lothian, 2002) After a wave of highly professional burglaries in the exclusive suburb of Hyland leaves the police frustrated, two mall-loving teenage […]
Portal Bandits
PORTAL BANDITS (Lothian, 2002) Garth, Arnold and Lucy are three typical high school students who are busy dealing with the typical problems of being teenagers […]
Better Than Ice-Cream
BETTER THAN ICE-CREAM (2000, Macmillan) All Tommy wants on this hot day at the beach is an ice-cream. But one thing leads to another and […]
Splash & Dear Jack
Jim also contributed to two anthologies: The Cockatoo Revelation, for Splash – Stories for Hot Summer Days (1998, Viking) Two pieces for Dear Jack – […]
A Modern Fable
A MODERN FABLE (1995, Angus & Robertson) A collection of 52 modern fables taken from Jim Schembri’s weekly fable column, which appeared in The Age […]
The Big Story: What Being a Journalist is Really Like
THE BIG STORY: WHAT BEING A JOURNALIST IS REALLY LIKE (1999, Macmillan) An accurate, honest account of the life of a modern journalist in a […]