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The Minstrels

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An extraordinary new literary novel from the award-winning author of Dog Boy and The Last Garden. Gem and Will grow up on a farm above the chasm and pool known as the Minstrels, a site where both are broken, each by the other. One will disappear.... Read More
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The Minstrels

An extraordinary new literary novel from the award-winning author of Dog Boy and The Last Garden

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An extraordinary new literary novel from the award-winning author of Dog Boy and The Last Garden.

Gem and Will grow up on a farm above the chasm and pool known as the Minstrels, a site where both are broken, each by the other. One will disappear. One will, eventually, be transformed.

Through her encounters with people and through art, land, and language, Gem is remade while the world outside changes and time runs out.

This long-awaited new novel from one of our finest writers is a sweeping epic set in literal and figurative blight in a fictional Australian geography; a work of self, time, and the very end of something. Wild, mythic, and potent, The Minstrels is an apocalyptic redemption fable that weaves the history and probable fate of the world into the life of one woman.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781923058781

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 March 2026

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 1.0mm

Width: 1.0mm

Height: 1.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 368

About the Author

Eva Hornung, formerly published as Eva Sallis, is an award-winning writer of literary fiction and criticism- her first novel, Hiam, won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1997 and the Nita May Dobbie Award in 1999. Her novel The Marsh Birds won the Asher Literary Award 2005 and was shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year 2005, NSW Premier's Literary Award and Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Hornung's acclaimed Dog Boy was shortlisted for numerous prizes and won the Prime Minister's Literary Award in 2010. Her most recently published book, The Last Garden, won the SA Premier's Prize for Literature in 2018. She lives in rural South Australia.

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