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The Hamilton Case: Text Classics
Published 30 June 2026
ISBN 9781923059764
Format EBook

The Hamilton Case: Text Classics

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30 June 2026
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30 June 2026
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One of Australia’s most awarded and acclaimed novelists published in the Text Classics for the first time.

A name is the first story that attaches itself to a life. Consider mine: Stanley Alban Marriott Obeysekere. It tells of geography, history, love and uncertainty. I was born on an island suspended midway on the golden trade route between East and West...

Ceylon in the 1930s is a crumbling outpost of empire hemmed in by jungle and tea plantations. At the heart of Michelle de Kretser’s dazzling and savage novel is a murder scandal in which Stanley, an Oxford-educated lawyer, becomes entangled. The Hamilton Case traces the unravelling of family and duty, legacy and identity, in a world of lost possibilities.

‘'That rare treasure, a perfect novel.’ Time
Published 30 June 2026
ISBN 9781923059764
Format EBook

About the author

Michelle de Kretser

Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka. She lives in Warrane/Sydney on unceded Gadigal land. An honorary associate of the English Department at the University of Sydney, she has won several awards for her fiction. Theory & Practice is Michelle's most recent novel.
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