Henry Goes Bush

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Wayne Marshall

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Pica Press
28 April 2026

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Historical adventure; Science fiction; Historical fiction; Australian Fiction

The price of genius is one hell of a hangover.

In 1892, New South Wales' most promising writer and least promising teetotaller, Henry Lawson, is banished to Bourke to 'find the real bush'. The goal: sober up, gather fresh material, and stop being such a disappointment. But what Australia's favourite literary son discovers in the river town is less a glorious national frontier than a collective nervous breakdown.

History records this as the trip that defined his career. Wayne Marshall records it as a surrealist action movie where Lawson must outrun his own myth and a gunslinger known as The Rider, aka Banjo - a poet significantly better at being a legend than Henry is.

Henry Goes Bush confronts the madness that lies behind our colonial dreaming - a moment where history is a hallucination and 'the bush' a phantasmagoric theme park. A reality in which The Bulletin's famed poetry wars are an actual shootout on the banks of the Darling River.

It turns out finding 'the real Australia' is easy; the hard part is surviving the encounter.

'like nothing you've read before' - MICHAEL WINKLER

'a genre-defying wonder of a novel' - RYAN O'NEILL

'surreal, singular, and deeply moving' - RHETT DAVIS

By: Wayne Marshall
Imprint: Pica Press
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 416g
ISBN: 9781761770142
ISBN 10: 1761770144
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 28 April 2026
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Wayne Marshall is an Australian writer and musician. His stories have appeared in Overland, Island, Going Down Swinging, and other places. He is the author of the short story collection Shirl, which was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier's Literary Award. He is the co-founder of the Peter Carey Short Story Award and lives in regional Victoria. Henry Goes Bush is his first novel.

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Henry Goes Bush

Wayne Marshall

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