‘Dominique Wilson is a wonderful storyteller. The research is impeccable, the realism unforgiving.’ Brian Castro, author of Blindness and Rage and Shanghai Dancing.
Dominique Wilson is a historical fiction writer with a passion for research, and for exploring how the great events and upheavals of history shape individual lives. Her novels explore themes of migration, identity, censorship and oppression, and the ways ordinary people confront injustice, loss and heartbreak in their determination to create lives well-lived.
‘Her writing is finely crafted, her prose poetic and subtle, and a joy to read.’ Monique Mulligan, author of Wherever You Go.
Orphan Rock
From the slums of nineteenth-century Sydney to Paris during World War One, Orphan Rock follows two women confronting secrecy, oppression and the struggle to survive.
‘An intriguing and thoughtful book.’ Ashleigh Meikle – The Book Muse
That Devil’s Madness
Across generations and continents, from colonial Algeria in 1896 to Australia in the 1970s,That Devil’s Madness explores the lasting bonds that can be forged between people, and the tensions between loyalty, duty and the price of freedom.
‘A kind of Quiet American set in Algiers: a unique, densely tactile novel in which the various strands of story-DNA – part multi-generational family saga, part Greene-land war-zone, part Camus-like moral maze – entwine with the DNA of its characters in a formal, satisfying helix.’ Peter Goldsworthy, author of Maestro, Three Dog Night and His Stupid Boyhood.
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The Yellow Papers
An epic tale spanning from nineteenth-century China and the Australian outback to Shanghai during World War II, The Yellow Papers follows enduring friendships and a love tested by war, displacement and the upheavals of twentieth-century Asia.
‘Moving and thought-provoking. An outstanding novel of originality and psychological depth.’ Julienne Van Loon, author of Road Story and The Thinking Woman.
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