The Conversations at Curlow Creek

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 214, [2]. Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine; emerald green endpapers.

Author's eighth novel. Shortlisted for the 1997 Miles Franklin Award and The Age Book of the Year Award for Fiction in 1996.

A long night of the soul, as a convict about to be hanged and the colonial officer in charge of the execution converse through the night in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales. Recipient of the inaugural International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996.

"In rich, poetic language, [Malouf] turns a sporadic night-long conversation... into a poignant and searing summation of man's place in the universe." –Kitchener-Waterloo Record