Heresies

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From the only author ever to have won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize (Britain's leading prize for non-fiction) comes a dazzling collection of writing, essays, articles and speeches.

From Manus to MONA to birds to the Black Summer, from the destruction of our natural world to the hope offered by Indigenous Australia to the growing corrosion of democracy, from Salman Rushdie to the Segal Report, family and love, Flanagan's non-fiction writings carry the author's trademark elegance, subversive wit, and humanity.

This showcase of Richard Flanagan's heretical brilliance over twenty years speaks to the heart of our troubled times now.

'Heresy allows a writer to write freely, allows writing to be an act of joy that arises from the same deep place where laughter lives, countering the farce of dogma with the reality of life ... Perhaps for any of us to write of hope, to write of love, we must learn once more to be free, and to embrace heresy.'

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Paperback / softback
ISBN13: 9781761358265
Published: August 2026

Number of pages: 336
Width: 137 mm
Height: 210 mm
Depth: 28 mm

Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia