Breath
Tim Winton

$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )

Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and ... More »

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Breath
Tim Winton

$45.00 (Hardcover book / Hamish Hamilton )

Winner of the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Breath is a story about the wildness of youth - the lust for excitement and terror, the determination to be extraordinary, the wounds that heal and those that don't - and ... More »

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Wanting
Richard Flanagan

$35.00 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )

Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

It is 1839. A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is running through the long wet grass of an island at the end of the world to get help for her dying father, an Abori... More »

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The Slap
Christos Tsiolkas

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize

At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own.

This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group ... More »

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The Pages
Murray Bail

$23.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )

Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Erica Hazelhurst, a philosopher from Sydney, has been given a project by her university to work on the papers of the late Wesley Antill (The Pages). She travels acr... More »

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Ice
Louis Nowra

$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin )

Shortlisted for the 2009 Miles Franklin Literary Award.

You have possessed me, let me go.



An iceberg is towed through the Heads to the astonishment of colonial Sydney. As it melts, the iceberg is revealed as a tomb to t... More »

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