Sullivan, Sheila
Entry updated 9 June 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1927- ) Malaysian-born editor and author, in the UK from an early age; her critical nonfiction was usually written as Sheila Bathurst. Her sf novel Summer Rising (1975; vt The Calling of Bara 1976) depicts a Post-Holocaust adventure beginning in a London devastated by a slow collapse of civilization intensified by a Pandemic; the protagonist, who has been raped, embarks upon a Fantastic Voyage ending in a complexly evolved Ireland. [JC]
Sheila Bathurst Sullivan
born Malaya: 29 January 1927
died November 2007
works
- Summer Rising (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975) [hb/]
- The Calling of Bara (New York: E P Dutton, 1976) [vt of the above: hb/]
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