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The Rich Man's House

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by Andrew McGahan
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Publication Date: 03/09/2019
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An unputdownable final novel from the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of The White Earth.

In the freezing Antarctic waters south of Tasmania, a mountain was discovered in 1642 by the seafaring explorer Gerrit Jansz. Not just any mountain but one that Jansz estimated was an unbelievable height of twenty-five thousand metres.

In 2016, at the foot of this unearthly mountain, a controversial and ambitious 'dream home', the Observatory, is painstakingly constructed by an eccentric billionaire - the only man to have ever reached the summit.

Rita Gausse, estranged daughter of the architect who designed the Observatory is surprised, upon her father's death, to be invited to the isolated mansion to meet the famously reclusive owner, Walter Richman. But from the beginning, something doesn't feel right. Why is Richman so insistent that she come? What does he expect of her?

When cataclysmic circumstances intervene to trap Rita and a handful of other guests in the Observatory, cut off from the outside world, she slowly begins to learn the unsettling - and ultimately horrifying - answers.

The Rich Man's House, Andrew McGahan's eleventh and final novel, is a gripping and unique thriller.

ISBN:
9781760529826
9781760529826
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
03-09-2019
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
608
Dimensions (mm):
234x153mm
Weight:
0.79kg
Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan is one of Australia's finest fiction writers. His first novel, Praise, won the 1992 Australian Vogel Literary Award. The White Earth won the 2004 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Age Book of the Year and The Courier Mail Book of the Year Award. In 2009 Andrew was shortlisted for the Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards for his contribution to Australian Literature.

The Coming of the Whirlpool, book one in the Ship Kings series, was shortlisted for an Indie Award, an ABIA, an Aurealis Award, a Golden Inky and a 2012 CBC award. Book two, The Voyage of the Unquiet Ice was Highly Commended in the 2012 Fellowship of Australian Writers National Literary Awards Christina Stead Award, a 2013 CBC Notable Book and shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards.

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I have always loved Andrew McGahan’s books and this is no exception. (Although the arthritis in my hands wasn’t keen on the weight of the book!) recommend it.

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