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Richard Flanagan
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction…
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Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction…
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'A masterpiece . . . The Narrow Road is an extraordinary piece of writing and a high point in an already distinguished career.' - Michael Williams, The Guardian
A novel…
Is Tasmanian salmon one big lie?
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'Flanagan's best work to date.' - Readings Magazine
What is the truth? In this blistering story of a ghost writer haunted by his demonic subject, the Man Booker Prize winner…
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'From its wonderfully atmospheric opening to its touching conclusion, this is a heartbreaking story, beautifully told' Literary Review
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. One of the most-loved…
'A work of pure brilliance', Seattle Times
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, his Commonwealth Writers' Prize-winning novel.
Once upon a time that was called 1828, before…
Richard Flanagan: Critical Essays is the first book to be published about the life and work of this major world author. Written by twelve leading critics from Australia, Europe and…
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Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il’s haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones…
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'One of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing.' Times Literary Supplement
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is…
'Richard Flanagan is one of the greatest writers at work in the world today - I admire him and his writing immensely. The Living Sea of Waking Dreams is a…
Richard Flanagan's Wanting reminds us that he is one of the most exciting novelists working anywhere, full stop - The Age
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. The…
Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024
'A work of non-fiction . . . but it has all the complexity of emotional heft of a great novel…
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This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has…
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country?
After…
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE AND PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER * LONGLISTED FOR PRIX MEDICIS * An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Narrow Road…
t Kif Kehlmann, a young penniless writer, is rung in the middle of the night by the notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial…
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land…
It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying…
One of the most auspicious debuts in Australian writing.' Times Literary Supplement From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. Death of a River Guide, Richard Flanagan's debut novel, is…
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best. In a world of perennial fire and growing extinctions, Anna’s aged mother…
From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. What would you do if you turned on the television and saw you were the most wanted terrorist in the country After…
From its wonderfully atmospheric opening to its touching conclusion, this is a heartbreaking story, beautifully told' Literary Review From the winner of the Man Booker Prize. One of the most-loved…
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Australia is not a fixed entity, a collection of outdated bigotries and reactionary credos, but rather an invitation to dream, and this country-our country-belongs to its dreamers…if we are finally…
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A study highlighting the active political nature of the unemployed rather than one of passive victims of the system. The efforts of the unemployed to unite are traced from 1884…
The Australian Disease is Richard Flanagan’s perceptive, hilarious, searing expose of the conformity that afflicts our public life. From Weary Dunlop to Vassily Grossman, from David Hicks to Craig Thomson…
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2014. A novel of the cruelty of war, and tenuousness of life and the impossibility of love. August, 1943. In the despair of a…
Un extraordinario tapiz de la Australia del siglo XIX. El libro de los peces de William Gould es el retrato de un mundo de convictos, profugos, flageladores, colonizadores, ladrones y…
Australia is not a fixed entity, a collection of outdated bigotries and reactionary credos, but rather an invitation to dream, and this country - our country - belongs to its…
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From one of the most inventive and important international literary voices comes this powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that mark humanity’s nature.
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen’s Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane.
The Unknown Terrorist is a relentless tour de force that paints a devastating picture of a contemporary society gone haywire, where the ceaseless drumbeat of terror alert levels, news reports…
The Australian Booksellers’ Association Book of the Year begins in 1954, in Tasmania where Bojan Buloh brings his family to start a new life away from Slovenia’s privations of war…
Condemned by their pity to living she increasingly escapes through her hospital window into visions of horror and delight. When Anna’s finger vanishes and a few months later her knee…
Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl.
An ember storm of a novel, this is Booker Prize-winning novelist Richard Flanagan at his most moving-and astonishing-best.
Published in hardcover to outstanding acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, and winner of the prestigious Commonwealth Writers Prize, Gould’s Book of Fish is a marvelously imagined epic of…
From the acclaimed Booker Prize-winning author comes a dazzling novel of family, love and love’s disappointments
Anna’s aged mother is dying. Condemned by her children’s pity to living, subjected to…
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier…
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has…
As a river guide is trapped under a rapid and begins to drown, the entirety of his life in Tasmania–flora and fauna–sings him home. Aljaz arrives at a world where…
FROM THE WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 After a one-night stand with an attractive stranger, pole-dancer Gina Davies finds herself prime suspect in an attempted terrorist attack on…
In the winter of 1954, in a construction camp in the remote Tasmanian highlands, when Sonja Buloh was three years old and her father was drinking too much, her mother…
Moving deftly from a Japanese POW camp to present-day Australia, from the experiences of Dorrigo Evans and his fellow prisoners to that of the Japanese guards, this savagely beautiful novel…
Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William…
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