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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
  • Published: 8 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761620614
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $40.00

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

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8 Apr 2025
Paperback
12 Apr 2023
Hardback
8 Sept 2026
EBook
23 Sept 2013
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The transformative story of war and love as a beautiful clothbound hardback, part of the Penguin Modern Australian Classics series

August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.
This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.
  • Published: 8 September 2026
  • ISBN: 9781761620614
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $40.00
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About the author

Richard Flanagan

Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’ by the New York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina étranger and the Prix du meilleur livre étranger as a novel, and won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford prizes.
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Awards & recognition

Margaret Scott Prize

Winner  •  2015  •  Margaret Scott Prize - Tasmanian Premier's Literary Prizes

International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Shortlisted  •  2015  •  International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Tasmania Book Prize

Longlisted  •  2015  •  Tamania Book Prize - Premier's Literary Prizes

Man Booker Prize

Winner  •  2014  •  Man Booker Prize

Prime Minister's Literary Award

Joint winner  •  2014  •  Prime Minister's Literary Award

Queensland Literary Awards

Winner  •  2014  •  University of Queensland Fiction Book Award

The Indie Awards

Winner  •  2014  •  Independent Booksellers Award

Western Australian Premier's Book Awards

Winner  •  2014  •  Western Australia Premier's Book Award

Colin Roderick Award

Shortlisted  •  2014  •  Colin Roderick Award

NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Shortlisted  •  2014  •  Christina Stead Prize for Fiction

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Narrow Road to the Deep North book club notes

The Narrow Road to the Deep North – an inspired reading group selection.