Heresies by Richard Flanagan

From the only author ever to have won both the Booker Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize comes a dazzling collection of writing, essays and speeches.

‘Heresy allows a writer to write freely, allows writing to be an act of joy that arises from the same deep place where laughter lives, countering the farce of dogma with the reality of life … Perhaps for any of us to write of hope, to write of love, we must learn once more to be free, and to embrace heresy.’

A glittering showcase of Flanagan’s brilliance as a novelist and essayist, this collection, chosen by the author from nearly twenty years of work, contains profile pieces, articles and polemics published in magazines and newspapers, and speeches he has delivered all over the world. He covers many of his passion subjects – the natural world, relationships with our First Nations peoples, freedom of speech, human rights, literature, writing, love. A dazzling collection written with Flangan’s trademark elegance, profound intelligence and humanity.

About the Author: Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’ by the New York Review of Books. He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina etranger and the Prix du meilleur livre etranger as a novel, and won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford prizes.

04 Aug 2026

Heresies by Richard Flanagan ISBN 9781761358265