04/08/2026
A new book from Richard Flanagan is always a significant literary event.
Heresies: Occasional Pieces gathers twenty years of Flanagan’s essays, articles and speeches, ranging across Manus and MONA, birds and the Black Summer, ecological destruction, Indigenous Australia, democracy, family and love. Provocative, searching and animated by his characteristic humanity, these pieces ask what it means to write freely, to resist received orthodoxies and, when necessary, to say the unsayable.
Described by The Washington Post as “one of our greatest living novelists” and by the New York Review of Books as “among the most versatile writers in the English language”, Flanagan is also the only author to have won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize. In Heresies, that extraordinary range is revealed beyond fiction: intellectually fearless, subversively witty and, amid troubled times, unexpectedly hopeful.
Heresies is in store now, or available to order online.
