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Gould's Book Of Fish
  • Published: 12 April 2023
  • ISBN: 9781761048135
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $24.99

Gould's Book Of Fish

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12 Apr 2023
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1 Dec 2011
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'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 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 and 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 . . .
  • Published: 12 April 2023
  • ISBN: 9781761048135
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $24.99
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Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’ by the New York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina étranger and the Prix du meilleur livre étranger as a novel, and won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford prizes.
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Praise for Gould's Book Of Fish

‘As inventive and visionary in its reimagination of history as [Toni] Morrison’s masterwork, Beloved'

Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

‘Is this the first masterpiece of the 21st century?’

Prospect

‘A seamless masterpiece’

Independent on Sunday

‘The novel has already garnered plenty of comparisons, with the scary m-word “masterpiece” appearing in print more than once... Brilliantly conceived’

Boston Globe

‘[Flanagan’s] writing has the unmistakeable shimmer of literary star quality... a bewitching novel’

New Statesman

‘One part Rabelais, one part Garcia Marquez, one part Ned Kelly’

New York Times Book Review

‘Ferocious in its anger, grotesque, sexy, funny, violent, startlingly beautiful and, above all, heartbreakingly sad ... I urge you to read it’

The Observer

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