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2003 Nominated

Gould’s Book of Fish : a novel in twelve fish

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

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……

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Richard
Flanagan

Richard Flanagan lives in Tasmania where he was born in 1961. Five of his novels-Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, and Wanting-have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.

Richard Flanagan lives in Tasmania where he was born in 1961. Five of his novels-Death of a River Guide, The Sound of One Hand Clapping, Gould’s Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist, and Wanting-have received numerous honours and are published in forty-two countries. He won the Man Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. He lives in Tasmania.

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