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From the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, his Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning novel.

From the winner of the Man Booker Prize 2014, his Commonwealth Writers’ Prize-winning novel.

Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer & forger, condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire and there ordered to paint a book of fish.

Once upon a time, there were miracles . . .

Richard Flanagan Richard Flanagan

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    9780143790785

    March 19, 2018

    Penguin

    480 pages

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  • Paperback

    9780857989215

    May 1, 2015

    Vintage Australia

    480 pages

    RRP $19.99

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  • Paperback

    9781742755090

    February 1, 2012

    Vintage Australia

    480 pages

    RRP $14.99

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  • EBook

    9781742756110

    December 1, 2011

    Random House Australia

    480 pages

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