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Gerald Murnane
A new work by a master of contemporary Australian fiction, highly regarded overseas, but little-known here. Giramondo’s publication of Border Districts, and the retrospective volume Collected Short Fiction (early next…
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This new work of fiction by one of Australia’s most highly regarded authors focuses on the importance of trust, and the possibility of betrayal, in storytelling as in life. It…
A young man arrives on the plains to document the strange, rich culture of the landowning families. This quest becomes his life. Teju Cole calls Murnane ‘a genius on the…
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Definitive collection of the short fiction of an Australian master-storyteller who is in a league of his own.
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A Lifetime on Clouds is funny, honest and sweetly told: a less ribald, Catholic Australian Portnoy’s Complaint.
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An unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a Victorian country town in the late 1940s. Clement Killeaton transforms his father’s obsession with gambling, his mother’s piety, the cruelty of…
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…
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Hilarious, affecting, and irreverent, this is a memoir of obsession and extraordinary imagination from a unique voice in literature.
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Discover the Australian novelist ranked by Ladbrokes as a top-five contender for the 2010 Nobel Prize.
Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, a genius on the level of Beckett (Teju Cole)
Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories–originally published from 1985 to 2012–offer…
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This collection of essays leads into the eccentric imagination of Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian writing, and winner of the Patrick White Literary Award.
Gerald Murnane turns to poetry at the end of his literary career, writing frank, disarming poems that traverse the rich span of his life.
Inland is a compact story or group of stories, each nested within another, nonetheless opening onto a seemingly endless fractal geography, where the interior of Australia, the Midwestern prairie, and…
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A masterwork from Australia’s greatest cult literary figure, published for the first time as the author originally intended
Lesbia Harford
Little published in her lifetime, Lesbia Harford died young in the late 1920s. Her short lyrical poems display a candour and dynamism unusual for her time and place
First published 25 years ago, Inland is one of Murnane’s most complex and rewarding works, a study of guilt, longing and regret rich in metaphysical insights.
Final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer.
Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging…
Brendan McNamee
Grounded Visionary is a reading of Australian writer Gerald Murnane’s fiction in the light of what is known as perennial philosophy, a philosophical tradition that positions itself as the mystical…
Often mentioned as an author in contention for the Nobel Prize, Gerald Murnane is regarded by many as Australia’s most innovative and important writer of fiction. Barley Patch, Murnane’s first…
Never before available to readers in the UK, these brilliant and idiosyncratic short stories stand alongside the fictions of Borges, Beckett and Nabokov.
With Giramondo’s publication of Barley Patch and A History of Books, Gerald Murnane has attracted renewed interest as a brilliant writer and Nobel Prize contender. First published 25 years ago…
Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane’s final work of fiction, is a hypnotic, precise, self-lacerating “report’ on a life led as an avid reader, fumbling lover, "student of…
A kaleidoscopic meditation on fiction-making by one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers.
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The titles of this collection of six loosely connected stories, Landscape with Freckled Woman, Sipping the Essence, The Battle of Acosta Nu, A Quieter Place than Clun, Charlie Alcock’s Cock…
A masterful collection of essays from one of Australia’s most searching and expert writers.
In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane–perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose–began a project that would round off his strange career as a…
A lonely child of unusual sensibility inherits his father’s love of horse-racing and his mother’s Catholicism in this evocative, semi-autobiographical novel.
