Strandloper

A captivating novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker Based on a true story, Strandloper tells the extraordinary tale of a nineteenth-century Englishman, William Buckley, who was convicted and transported to Australia. Refusing to accept his fate he escaped and lived among the Aborigines for thirty years. In this visionary novel, Alan Garner is as true to William the Cheshire bricklayer and William the Aboriginal spiritual leader, as William is true to his fate. The result is extraordinary.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Garner, Garner Alan
• Publisher: Fourth Estate
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.09.2026
• EAN: 9780008672232
• ISBN: 978-0-00-867223-2
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Fiction: special features, Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, Australia, Historical adventure, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Historical adventure fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Fiction based on or inspired by true events, FICTION / Indigenous / General