and was then the city's only late night cafe. In 1967 he met the British writer Iris Murdoch, who was visiting Australia. In a letter to her friend Brigid Brophy she wrote: ... the opera house is the most beautiful single object I've seen since getting here (with the possible exception of a West Australian novelist called Jerry Glaskin, whom I had reluctantly to leave behind in Perth). Death He died on 11 March 2000. Works A world of our own, James Barrie. London, 1955 | A minor portrait (Barrie Books, London, 1957 — fiction) The mistress (Panther Books, 1957 — fiction) The Beach of Passionate Love (1959) A lion in the sun (Varrie and Rockliff, 1960 — fiction) A change of mind (Doubleday, 1960 — fiction) The land that sleeps: Travel and adventure in the virgin west of Australia (Doubleday, NY, 1960 — travel) A waltz through the hills (Barrie and Rockliff, 1961 — fiction) A small selection of short stories (Barrie and Rockliff, 1962) Flight to landfall (Barrie and Rockliff, 1963 — fiction) No End to the Way [pseudonym 'Neville Jackson'] (Corgi, London, 1965) The man who didn't count (Delacorte Press, 1965 — fiction) The road to nowhere (1967) Bird in my hands; a personal experience (Jenkins, 1967) Windows of the mind: Discovering your past and future lives through massage and mental exercise (Wildwood House, London, 1974) Two women: Two novellas (Ure Smith, Sydney, 1975) Worlds within: Probing the Christos experience (Wildwood House, London, 1976) A door to infinity: Proving the Christos experience (Wildwood House, London, 1979) One way to wonderland (1984) A many-splendored woman: A memoir of Han Suyin (Graham Brash, Singapore, 1995) Bibliography Burbidge, John Dare Me! The Life and Work of Gerald Glaskin, Monash University Publishing, 2014 References 1923 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Australian novelists 20th-century Australian male writers 20th-century Australian poets Australian male novelists Australian science fiction writers Australian self-help writers Australian male short story writers Australian gay writers Australian LGBT novelists Writers from Perth, Western Australia Australian male poets 20th-century Australian short story writers 20th-century LGBT people Australian LGBT poets