David Malouf

An Imaginary Life

154 pages

The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild animals in the snow. It is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature.

Child's Play; Fly Away Peter

Neighbours in a Thicket

Ransom

Published 2009 · 224 pages

Remembering Babylon

201 pages

In the mid-1840s, thirteen-year-old Gemmy Fairley is cast ashore in the far north of Australia and taken in by Aboriginals. Sixteen years later, when settlers reach the area, he moves back ino the world of Europeans. Given shelter by the McIvors, Gemmy seems at first to be guaranteed a secure role in the settlement, but there are currents of fear and mistrust in the air. -- back cover.

The Conversations at Curlow Creek

Published 1996

Set in Australia in 1827, The Conversations at Curlow Creek is an extraordinary exploration of nature and justice, of the workings of fate, of intimacy, compassion, and duty.

The Great World

Published 1990

Every city, town and village has its memorial to war. Nowhere are these more eleoquent than in Australia, generations of whose young men have enlisted to fight other people's battles - from Gallipoli and the Somme to Malaya and Vietnam. In this book David Malouf gives voice to that experience, ranging over seventy years of Australian life.