Richard Flanagan

Books on prize lists

• The Narrow Road to the Deep North

  Written in English

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  Booker 2014 · ★ Winner

  The Narrow Road to the Deep North

  The Narrow Road to the Deep North

  Richard Flanagan · 52 when first published

  Novel · 467 pages · War, Love, Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1943, the Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans fights to keep the prisoners under his command alive in a Japanese camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, haunted by a love affair with his uncle's young wife.

• Wanting

  Written in English

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  Miles Franklin 2009 · Shortlist

  Wanting

  Wanting

  Richard Flanagan · 47 when first published

  Novel · 256 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In Van Diemen's Land the governor Sir John Franklin and his wife adopt a young Aboriginal girl to prove she can be civilised; years later in England, Charles Dickens is drawn into the fate of Franklin's lost Arctic expedition.

• Gould's Book of Fish

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  Miles Franklin 2002 · Shortlist

  Gould's Book of Fish

  Gould's Book of Fish

  Richard Flanagan · 40 when first published

  Novel · 404 pages · Historical

  AIAI-generated summary:In 1828 William Buelow Gould, an English convict, forger and liar sent to a brutal penal settlement in Van Diemen's Land, is put to work by the prison surgeon painting the island's fish.