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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    December 1982
  • Latest Book:
    February 2018
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Book List in Order: 6 titles



  • A Woman of the Future, first published in 1979, was David Ireland's best-selling sixth novel and his third to win the Miles Franklin Award.  An imaginative tour de force, it is the story of the young life of Anthea Hunt -- from conception to sex...




  • Winner of the Miles Franklin Award 1976. Introduction by Nicolas Rothwell. Meat Man is a regular at the Southern Cross pub in Sydney. With his tribe he sits and drinks and watches as life spirals around him. David Ireland’s novel tells his stories,...



  • Winner of the Miles Franklin Award in 1971. On the shores of Botany Bay lies an oil refinery where workers are free to come and go. But they are also part of an unrelenting, alienating economy from which there is no escape. In the first of his three ...



  • The Chantic Bird is the confession of a teenage anarchist, who combines a contempt for contemporary society with a great tenderness and warmth for his younger siblings and for Bee, the girl who looks after them. The first of David Ireland's masterf...



  • Bloodstones: The Art Of Murder Death, lust and infidelity on a summer’s day. Lives will change forever in the idyllic Cotswold countryside deep in the heart of the Bloodstones. Summer has arrived in a Cotswold village at the edge of the Severn Plai...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

David Ireland has published 6 books.

David Ireland does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bloodstones, was published in February 2018.

The first book by David Ireland, A Woman of the Future, was published in December 1982.

No. David Ireland does not write books in series.