Meet the foolish forger and cuckolded convict Henry Savery, described by Thomas Keneally as ‘a man whose own story is as picaresque as anything inside the covers of a novel’.
Born to fortune but spurned by fate, a single act of folly launches young Henry into an extraordinary spiral of calamity. Banished to the end of the earth, bankrupt and betrayed, he surveys the gothic ruins of his past from an empty Hobart Town gaol cell – writing the thinly veiled autobiography that will become Australia’s first published novel.
Format: A6 format (150 x 105 mm)
ISBN: 978-0-9871714-8-1
Extent: 206pp paperback
Genre: Australian non-fiction
Publication date: 2011, 2024 (revised edition)
Author bio: Rod Howard’s critically acclaimed The Fabulist (Random House, 2006) is currently under early development as a feature film by Essential Media and Entertainment.
$25.00
