Pictures of You

(Hardback)

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From Australia's master storyteller comes this retrospective of his best short stories from the past two decades Pictures of You- Collected Stories brings together the best of Tony Birch's short fiction from the past two decades. Cherry-picking from across his oeuvre, this anthology showcases his skills at finding the extraordinary in ordinary lives, and the unexpected connections and kindnesses between strangers. His work is by turns poignant, sad, profound and funny - and always powerful. Throughout this stellar collection, Birch's preoccupation with the humanity of those who are often marginalised or overlooked, and the search for justice for people and the natural environment, shines bright.

Author Bio

Tony Birch is the author of four novels- Women & Children, which won the 2024 The Age Fiction Book of the Year; The White Girl, winner of the 2020 NSW Premier's Award for Indigenous Writing, and shortlisted for the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award; Ghost River, winner of the 2016 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing; and Blood, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2012. He has also published two poetry books and four short story collections, the most recent of which, Dark as Last Night, won both the 2022 NSW Premier's Literary Award and the Queensland Literary Award for Fiction. In 2017 he was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award. Tony Birch is an activist, historian and essayist, and is currently the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne.