The Hunter

First UK edition. 8vo. 170pp. Pictorial wraps.

Author's debut novel. Originally published by Penguin Books (Australia), in 1999. Winner of a Betty Trask Award in 2000, and the 2001 Prix d'Astrolabe. A 2001 New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Long-listed for the 2000 Orange Prize Award. Named a Young Novelist of the Year by The Sydney Morning Herald and chosen as one of 21 writers "for the next millennium" by The Observer.

A man identified only as M, is tasked by a multinational biotech company to locate the whereabouts of a recently sighted thylacine, the legendary Tasmanian tiger, long thought extinct. Adapted into the 2011 film by director Daniel Nettheim, starring Willem Dafoe, Frances O'Connor, and Sam Neill. "[A] complex, difficult and unsettling book which continues to resonate long after its end." –TLS