The Bath Fugues

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The Bath Fugues is a meditation on melancholy and art, in the form of three interwoven novellas, centred respectively on an ageing art forger; a Portuguese poet, opium addict and art collector; and a doctor, who has built an art gallery in tropical Queensland. These characters are tied by more than their art, each dealing with questions of deception and discovery, counterfeiting and rewriting, transmission and identity and each stretching the bonds of trust and friendship.

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Brian Castro's Shanghai Dancing, published by Giramondo in 2003, won the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award; his most recent novel, The Garden Book (2005), was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and won the Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction.