num_pages: 404
description: Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all the living things on the land and the fishes in the sea were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a convict in Van Dieman's Land 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, forger, fantasist, condemned to live in the most brutal penal colony in the British Empire, and there ordered to paint a book of fish. Once upon a time, miraculous things happened...
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: Tasmania, Australia, Historical, Historical Fiction, Unfinished, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 5291
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: Atlantic Books