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Biographical note
Richard Flanagan was born in Tasmania in 1961. His novels Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, Wanting and The Narrow Road to the Deep North have received numerous honours and are published in 42 countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North in 2014.A masterpiece
The Times
Flanagan's masterpiece
Washington Post
Lyrical and hilarious, tender and wildly angry by turns, it dazzlingly reconceives the form of the novel
Observer
<i>Gould's Book of Fish</i> is a novel about fish in the way that <i>Moby-Dick</i> is a novel about whales, <i>Ulysses</i> is a novel about the events of a single day
New York Times
A vivid, voluptuous, exhilarating writer
Sunday Telegraph
Hugely original... Passages burn with the intense pleasure of story-making, of the abandon that comes from a seething of ideas and their joyful mutation into words
- Alex Clark, Guardian
A seamless masterpiece of the grotesque
Independent on Sunday
Outstanding
- Robert Macfarlane, Spectator
As beautiful to look at as it was enthralling to read
Independent
Hugely involving, clever, witty and tender
Metro
FROM THE BESTSELLING BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR
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.
'A masterpiece' The Times
'Flanagan's masterpiece' Washington Post
'Outstanding' Robert Macfarlane, Spectator
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 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.