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Extinctions was the inaugural winner of the UWAP?Publishing Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, it won the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award, and has been shortlisted for the 2017 Colin Roderick award for the best book of Australian writing. ***'He hated the word 'retirement', but not as much as he hated the word 'village', as if ageing made you a peasant or a fool.' Herein lives the village idiot. Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, world expert on concrete, and connoisseur of modernist design, has quarantined himself from life by moving to a retirement village. His wife, Martha, is dead and his two adult children are lost to him in their own ways. Surrounded and obstructed by the debris of his life-objects he has collected over many years and tells himself he is keeping for his daughter-he is determined to be miserable. When a series of unfortunate incidents forces him and his neighbour, Jan, together, he begins to realise the damage done by the accumulati