Brian Castro

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  • Bibliography:
    12 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1990
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Book List in Order: 12 titles

  • Birds of Passage

  • Double-Wolf

  • Shanghai Dancing

    After 40 years in Australia, Antonio Castro packs a bag and walks out of his old life forever. The victim of a restlessness he calls "Shanghai Dancing," Antonio seeks to understand the source of his condition in his family's wanderings. Reversing his...

  • After China

  • The Bath Fugues

    Vintage Castro, a wonderfully wrought performance, intrigue, romance, comedy, deception - and a melancholy sadness which courts, but never surrenders to. despair. It takes the form of three interwoven novellas, the first centred on an ageing forger, ...

  • Drift

    Through a fictional character, Byron Shelley Johnson, Castro ‘completes’ English experimental novelist Bryan Stanley Johnson's unfinished trilogy. The novel explores the interaction of historical characters from the sealing days of Tasmania with ...

  • The Garden Book

    Brian Castro's new novel is set in the Dandenong Ranges in the years between the Depression and the Second World War. ...

  • Looking for Estrellita

  • Stepper

    Nominally a spy thriller, Stepper is based on the real exploits of pre-war Russian spies operating in Japan. It is an existential study of a spy who, in a world where identity is not a fixed idea, fails to secure his own stable identity....



  • Street to Street

    "Street to Street" is one of Brian Castro's best books yet, a comic - tragic enactment of the anxieties of the writing life, in which the early twentieth - century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan plays a major role. A legendary figure, with a command...

  • Blindness and Rage

    Blindness and Rage is a novel told in 34 cantos, somewhat in the manner of Pushkin's great Russian novel in verse, Eugene Onegin. Castro's hero Lucien Gracq is a townplanner from Adelaide who is writing a book-length poem, Paidia. Doubtful of its rec...

  • Chinese Postman

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Brian Castro has published 12 books.

Brian Castro does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Chinese Postman, was published in October 2024.

The first book by Brian Castro, Birds of Passage, was published in January 1990.

No. Brian Castro does not write books in series.
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