num_pages: 445
description: ONCE UPON A TIME that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Silly Billy Gould, invader of Australia, liar, murderer &amp; forger, condemned to the most feared penal colony in the British Empire and there ordered to paint a book of fish.Once upon a time, there were miracles...
language: English
title: Gould's Book Of Fish - A Novel In Twelve Fish
titlecomplete: Gould's Book Of Fish - A Novel In Twelve Fish
genres: Australia, Historical, Unfinished, Tasmania, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 5292
places: Tasmania
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Miles Franklin Literary Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Victorian Premier's Literary Award
category: Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best Book Overall, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: ALS Gold Medal
publisher: Picador Pan MacMillan