I'm going to nominate yet another - now that I've finally sat down and had a think about it.
I will nominate
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan. Awards include:
Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (2002)
Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction (2002)
Australian Literature Society Gold Medal (2002)
Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book Overall (2002)
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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...
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Looks like in Overdrive it's only available in UK, Ireland, Germany and Austria.