Gould's Book Of Fish

Richard Flanagan

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Penguin
12 April 2023

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Historical fiction; Australian Fiction

'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 . . .

By: Richard Flanagan
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 327g
ISBN: 9781761048135
ISBN 10: 1761048139
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 12 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Richard Flanagan's novels have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North and the Commonwealth Prize for Gould's Book of Fish. A rapid on the Franklin River is named after him.