Brian Castro

Books on prize lists

• Chinese Postman

  Written in English

  SaveChinese Postman to read later

  Miles Franklin 2025 · Shortlist

  Chinese Postman

  Chinese Postman

  Brian Castro · 74 when first published

  Novel · 262 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Abraham Quin, a thrice-divorced migrant in his seventies, once a postman and a professor, lives alone in the Adelaide Hills and looks back on his life as he writes letters to a woman who has fled the war in Ukraine.

• The Bath Fugues

  Written in English

  SaveThe Bath Fugues to read later

  Miles Franklin 2010 · Shortlist

  The Bath Fugues

  The Bath Fugues

  Brian Castro · 59 when first published

  Novel · 374 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:Three linked novellas follow a former art forger in his old age, an addicted Portuguese poet who collects art, and a doctor with a gallery of her own on the tropical coast of Queensland.

• The Garden Book

  Written in English

  SaveThe Garden Book to read later

  Miles Franklin 2006 · Shortlist

  The Garden Book

  The Garden Book

  Brian Castro · 55 when first published

  Novel · 316 pages · Historical, Love

  AIAI-generated summary:In Victoria's Dandenong Ranges in the 1920s and 1930s, a schoolteacher's daughter from a Chinese Australian family marries a violent man and falls in love with an American flyer.