Harland's Half Acre

David Malouf is internationally recognised as one of Australia's finest writers. His novels include Johnno, An Imaginary Life, Harland's Half Acre, The Great World, which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Prix Femina Etranger in 1991, and Remembering Babylon, which was shortlisted for the 1993 Booker Prize and won the inaugural IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 1996. He has also written five collections of poetry and three opera libretti. He lives in Sydney.

"A powerful, impressive book" Observer "David Malouf is one of Australia's most esteemed writers... Malouf often works on a broad canvas, portraying places, people and events in the panoramic context of history... [and] evoking the elusive interior worlds of his characters' perceptions" Los Angeles Times "[A] remarkable book, in which the realist and the dreamer are finally and excitingly fused" New York Times "A meditation, in the form of a novel, on the connection between life and art, by a talented Australian writer" Washington Post