On Not Climbing Mountains
$31.40
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
24 February 2026
Summary
From the internationally acclaimed, prize-winning author of The Performance and Fugitive Blue comes a remarkable work of literary fiction
A woman arrives in Geneva, the first stop in a train journey through the country of her father’s birth. She yearns to be outside time - untethered and alone - but she soon becomes immersed in the stories resonating all around her.
She visits a museum and stares into the oversized, disco-ball eyes of an insect, unsettled by the intimacy, ‘lik…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780733644566 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0733644562 |
| Author: | Claire Thomas |
| Publisher: | Hachette Australia |
| Imprint: | Hachette Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 24 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 27mm x 235mm x 239mm |
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About The Author
Claire Thomas
Claire Thomas is a writer from Naarm/Melbourne. Her first novel was Fugitive Blue, which won the Dobbie Literary Award for women writers, and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Her second novel, The Performance, also longlisted for the Miles Franklin, was internationally published to critical acclaim, and shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in 2022. Claire holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and has worked as a mentor, lecturer, supervisor and teacher for many years. On Not Climbing Mountains was written with the support of a residency at the Fondation Jan Michalski in Montricher, Switzerland.
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