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Gould's Book of Fish

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784702892

  • Length: 480  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 330g

  • RRP: £9.99

Gould's Book of Fish

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. 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.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781784702892

  • Length: 480  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 330g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • 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

  • Gould's Book of Fish is a novel about fish in the way that Moby-Dick is a novel about whales, Ulysses 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

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About the Author

Richard Flanagan

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.

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