Miles Franklin Longlist 2009
Breath
$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 ... Buy or find out more →
The Pages
$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... Buy or find out more →
Addition
$23.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts. The letters in her name (19). The steps she takes every morning to the local café (920); the number of poppy seeds on her slice of orange cake, which dictates the number of bites she'll take... Buy or find out more →
A Fraction Of The Whole
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Meet the Deans.
Heroes or criminals?
Crackpots of visionaries?
Relatives or enemies?
It's a simple family story...
From the New South Wales bush to bohemian Paris, from sports fields to strip clubs, from the jungles of T... Buy or find out more →
Wanting
$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... Buy or find out more →
One Foot Wrong
$24.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A child is imprisoned in a house by her reclusive religious parents. Hester has never seen the outside world; her companions are Cat, Spoon, Door, Handle, Broom, and they all speak to her. Her imagination is informed by ... Buy or find out more →
Fugitive Blue
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Usually you can tell when something has fallen apart. You can see it deteriorating into awkward little pieces and you know, no matter what, it's a broken thing. But occasionally, it's not so obvious. Occasionally you fin... Buy or find out more →
Ice
$16.95 – 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... Buy or find out more →
The Devil's Eye
$27.99 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
It is 1899‚ and one of the fiercest storms in history is brewing −− a hurricane named Mahina.
To a remote part of the Queensland coast come the hundreds of sails of the northern pearling fleets‚ and a native police... Buy or find out more →