Once There Were Wolves

Inti is the head of Cairngorms National Park's Wolf Project in Scotland. The project aims to release 14 wolves into the park as a part of their rewilding project. The project is met with opposition from local farmers who worry about their sheep flocks. Then a dead body is discovered and Inti begins to suspect a local policeman of the murder.

Writing in The Newtown Review of Books Ann Skea was impressed with the novel: "Charlotte McConaghy draws the reader into the lives of her characters, and realistically coveys the closeness, secrets, fears and mutual support of a small community where people have grown up together and know each other well...Ecology, climate change and self-sufficiency are casually woven in as underlying themes, but it is the creatures – human and wolf – that are the heart of the story."^[3]

• 2021 in Australian literature

• Dedication: "For my little one"
• Epigraph: "One beast and only one howls in the woods by night." - Angela Carter

After the novel's initial publication by Hamish Hamilton it was reprinted as follows:

• 2021 Flatiron Books, USA^[4]
• 2022 Chatto and Windus, UK^[4]

The novel was also translated into Swedish, German, Finnish, Dutch and Danish in 2022, Greek in 2023, and French in 2024.^[4]

• 2022 Indie Book Awards Book of the Year – Fiction, winner^[2]
• 2022 Davitt Award – Best Adult Novel, winner^[5]