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Andrew McGahan

Andrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, but has lived and worked mostly in Brisbane. His first novel Praise (1992) was winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Since then his writing includes an award winning stage play (Bait) and the AFI award winning screenplay for the movie version of Praise. His second novel was the prequel 1988 (1995), and his third novel Last Drinks (2000) was shortlisted for multiple awards, including The Age Book of the Year and The Courier Mail Book of the Year, and won a Ned Kelly award for crime writing. In 2004 The White Earth was published and went on to win the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the South East Asia and South Pacific region, The Age Book of the Year (Fiction) and the Courier Mail Book of the Year Award. It was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards that same year.

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Title:

The Rich Man's House

Written by:

Andrew McGahan 

Read by:

Casey Withoos 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

18 

Duration:

22 hours 34 minutes 

Published:

November 01 2019 

Available Date:

November 01 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9780655627234 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Mystery 

Publisher:

ABC Audio 

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Award winning author
Australian author

Shortlisted Voss Literary Prize 2020

From award-winning author Andrew McGahan comes an extraordinary thriller about six trapped guests, a house like no other and a mountain awaiting its time.

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 25,000 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 11th and final instalment, is a gripping and unique thriller.

'A bold novel, distinct voice, and impressive debut.' (on Praise)
Kirkus Reviews

'A good first novel with an honest ending.' (on Praise)
Publisher's Weekly