Miles Franklin Shortlist 2006
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 ... More »
Everyman's Rules For Scientific Living
$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
An earlier version of this extremely accomplished first novel won the Victorian Premier's Award for Unpublished Manuscripts in 2003. Now here it is in its final polished form and it's a treat. Funny, warm, wise, sad and ... More »
The Garden Book
$27.95 (Paperback book / Giramonndo )
Set in the Dandenongs after the Depression, Castro’s sublime new novel revolves around Swan Hay, a Chinese-Australian married to Darcy Damon. She writes poems on leaves, and becomes a celebrated literary figure while rem... More »
The Secret River
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Text Publishing )
After a childhood of poverty and petty crime in the slums of London, William Thornhill is sentenced in 1806 to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. With his wife Sal and children in tow, he... More »
The Wing Of Night
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Viking )
*All over the south-west, soldiers' wives were learning to sleep alone. Sleeping themselves back into the nights before their, weddings . . .* In 1915 a troopship of Light Horsemen sails from Fremantle for the Great War.... More »