Miles Franklin Prize Winners
Truth
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Winner of the 2010 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
At the close of a long day, Inspector Stephen Villani stands in the bathroom of a luxury apartment high above the city. In the glass bath, a young woman lies dead, a pani... Buy or find out more →
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 Time We Have Taken
$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Winner of the 2008 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
That exotic tribe was us. And the time we have taken‚ our moment.
One summer morning in 1970‚ Peter van Rijn‚ proprietor of the television and wireless shop‚ pronounces... Buy or find out more →
The Ballad of Desmond Kale
$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
In the early 1800s, out of the prison society of governors, redcoats, English gaolers, Irish convicts, and the few free settlers of Botany Bay, one had entured much farther inland than a few dozen miles from Sydney into ... Buy or find out more →
The Great Fire
$22.99 – Paperback book / Virago
Twenty years in the writing, The Great Fire is a triumphant novel of lives shadowed by war and redeemed by love. In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, people must reinvent their lives and expectations and learn, from the... Buy or find out more →
Journey To The Stone Country
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Winner of the 2003 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
'A terrific tale of love and redemption that captivates from the first line.' - Nicholas Shakespeare, author of The Dancer Upstairs.
Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Be... Buy or find out more →
Dirt Music
$24.95 – Paperback book / Picador
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Her days have fallen into d... Buy or find out more →
Dark Palace
$12.95 – Hardcover book / Random Century
Five years have passed since Edith Campbell Berry's triumphant arrival at the League of Nations in Geneva, determined to right the wrongs of the world. The idealism of those early grand days has been eroded by a sense fo... Buy or find out more →
The White Earth
$23.95 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
One spring day in late 1992, when William was halfway between his eighth birthday and his ninth, he looked out from the back verandah of his home and saw, huge in the sky, the mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion. He st... Buy or find out more →
Benang
$26.95 – Paperback book / Freemantle Press
Winner of the 2000 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
I tell you that this story of my own is part of a much older story... one of a perpetual billowing from the sea, with its rhythm of return, return, remain... I offer thes... Buy or find out more →
Eucalyptus
$24.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing
1999 Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.
On a property in western New South Wales a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young ... Buy or find out more →
The Glade Within The Grove
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
'His style is vivid, his outlook irreverent, his tone of voice unpredictable...Like Saul Bellow and Norman Mailer he is a master of the urgent monologue, the offbeat diatribe, the edgy encounter, the contemporary voice w... Buy or find out more →
Highways To A War
$19.95 – Paperback book / Minerva
When Mike Langford, a war photographer with a reputation for unusual risk-taking, disappears inside Cambodia, he becomes a mythic figure in the minds of his friends. The search for him which is at the heart of this novel... Buy or find out more →
Jack Maggs
$24.95$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda returns to the nineteenth century in an utterly captivating mystery. The year is 1837 and a stranger is prowling London. He is Jack Maggs, an illegal returnee from the... Buy or find out more →