Miles Franklin Shortlist 2005

The White Earth
Andrew Mcgahan

$29.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

Winner of the 2005 Miles Franklin Award "The White Earth revisits the conventions of the Australian pioneering saga and the gothic novel, investing them with remarkable imaginative force and contemporary significance. On... More »

Salt Rain
Sarah Armstrong

$21.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )

Allie's free-spirited mother, Mae, mysteriously disappears on Sydney Harbour one night, her dinghy found drifting in the darkness. Fourteen-year-old Allie is whisked away to the north, to a rainforested valley, by Julia,... More »

Sixty Lights
Gail Jones

$29.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )

In 1860, when they are just eight and ten, Lucy Strange and her brother Thomas are orphaned. Left in the care of their uncle, the children begin slowly, frighteningly, to find their place in the difficult world. And so b... More »

The Gift Of Speed
Steven Carroll

$27.95 (Paperback book / Flamingo )

Set during the glorious summer of 1960/61,The Gift of Speed chronicles the lives, fates and fortunes of a memorable group of characters in a fictitious outer-Melbourne suburb in the post-World War II era. The roads and f... More »

The Submerged Cathedral
Charlotte Wood

$23.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )

‘Set me as a seal on your heart, for love is stronger than death.’ Spanning many years, travelling across Australia’s vast continent and through some of Europe’s great cities, *The Submerged Cathedral* is a beguiling, he... More »

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