Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

…best book for his novel Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (2001), the story of a convict living in 19th-century Tasmania. Flanagan’s engaging mystery The Unknown Terrorist (2006) offers a cynical view of the world in the wake of the September 11, 2001, attacks, and his The…

His novel Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish (2001), about a 19th-century convict living in Tasmania, was awarded the 2002 Commonwealth Writers Prize (now the Commonwealth Book Prize) for best book as well as the Commonwealth’s Regional Prize for best book. The Unknown Terrorist…