Xavier Herbert: Episodes form CAPRICORNIA, POOR FELLOW MY COUNTRY and other fiction, nonfiction and letters. Edited by Frances de Groen and Peter Pierce. Published by the University of Queensland Press in 1992. There are no inscriptions that we have seen apart from some small pencil marks on the first page. There is some light shelf wear, but the binding is tight and the book is in great condition.

This volume is designed to convey a sense of the scope of Xavier Herbert’s vast output, with a selection that confronts broad issues such as nationalism, the land, Aborigines, sex and gender, and the role of the creative artist.

Extracts from all of Xavier Herbert’s major works are provided, along with some significant and hitherto unpublished material, ass well as a range of polemical and autobiographical material.

The lengthy sampling of his better known works will serve as an enticements to further reading of a writer whose challenging fiction has always generated controversy and reached a wide popular audience.