Set in the Dandenongs after the Depression, Castro’s sublime new novel revolves around Swan Hay, a Chinese-Australian married to Darcy Damon. She writes poems on leaves, and becomes a celebrated literary figure while remaining hidden and in danger at home. Fifty years after her disappearance, a librarian pieces her life together, unearthing a powerful story of addiction, obsession and prejudice.
Brian Castro
Looking For Estrellita
$22.00 – Trade paperback / Univ Queensland Pr
Looking for Estrellita is a dazzling collection of essays full of new and important ideas. Castro explores foreignness, the multiplicity of the self, the business of writing and language, and celebrates the novel as a wa... Buy or find out more →
Drift
$24.95 – Paperback book / Wakefield Press
Brian Castro's fifth novel is perhaps his most complex and certainly his most political. Like all his work it is productively playful, punningly irreverent and deeply concerned with sex and death, fact and fiction, but a... Buy or find out more →
Shanghai Dancing
$29.95 – Paperback book / Giramonndo
Shanghai Dancing challenges our expectations of storytelling. Beautifully and eloquently written, Castro takes as his inspiration his own family history which encompasses a global migration from the 17th century to prese... Buy or find out more →
The Garden Book
$27.95 – Paperback book / Giramonndo
Set in the Dandenongs after the Depression, Castro’s sublime new novel revolves around Swan Hay, a Chinese-Australian married to Darcy Damon. She writes poems on leaves, and becomes a celebrated literary figure while rem... Buy or find out more →
After China
$24.95 – Paperback book /
An architect exiled from China meets an Australian woman writer who is terminally ill. He tells her traditional Chinese stories as a way of overcoming time/mortality, and of coming to terms with his own difficult past.
F... Buy or find out more →
The Bath Fugues
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Giramondo Publishing
From one if Australia's most lauded writers, comes a wonderfully wrought work, melding intrigue, romance, comedy and deception, taking the form of three interwoven novellas. Castro has won nearly every Australian literar... Buy or find out more →
Miles Franklin Shortlist 2006
The Ballad of Desmond Kale
$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts, and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, one had entured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney into ... Buy or find out more →
Everyman's Rules For Scientific Living
$22.95 – Paperback book / Picador
An earlier version of this extremely accomplished first novel won the Victorian Premier's Award for Unpublished Manuscripts in 2003. Now here it is in its final polished form and it's a treat. Funny, warm, wise, sad and ... Buy or find out more →
The Garden Book
$27.95 – Paperback book / Giramonndo
Set in the Dandenongs after the Depression, Castro’s sublime new novel revolves around Swan Hay, a Chinese-Australian married to Darcy Damon. She writes poems on leaves, and becomes a celebrated literary figure while rem... Buy or find out more →
The Wing Of Night
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
All over the south-west, soldiers' wives were learning to sleep alone. Sleeping themselves back into the nights before their, weddings . . . In 1915 a troopship of Light Horsemen sails from Fremantle for the Great War. T... Buy or find out more →