On their vast estates, the landowning families of the plains have preserved a rich and distinctive culture. Obsessed with their own habitat and history, they hire artisans, writers and historians to record in minute detail every aspect of their lives, and the nature of their land.
A young film-maker arrives on the plains, hoping to make his own contribution to the elaboration of this history. In a private library he begins to take notes for a film, and chooses the daughter of his patron for a leading role.
Twenty years later, he begins to tell his haunting story of life on the plains.
Gerald Murnane
A History Of Books
$26.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer's mind.
The titles aren't given but the reader... Buy or find out more →
Barley Patch
$27.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Barley Patch is Gerald Murnane’s first published book of fiction since 1995. It is a meditation on fiction and Murnane’s own dedication to writing, and an examination of the relation between memory, image and lived exper... Buy or find out more →
Tamarisk Row
$27.95 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Gerald Murnane is widely recognised as one of our country’s most significant literary figures – but only one of his novels, The Plains, is available. Until now. For the first time in 20 years, his masterful first nov... Buy or find out more →
The Plains
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
On their vast estates, the landowning families of the plains have preserved a rich and distinctive culture. Obsessed with their own habitat and history, they hire artisans, writers and historians to record in minute deta... Buy or find out more →
Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs
$24.95 – Paperback book / Giramonndo
This collection of essays leads the reader into the curious and eccentric imagination of Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian writing, author of the classic novel The Plains, and winner of the Pa... Buy or find out more →