Miles Franklin Shortlist 2007
Theft: A Love Story
$45.00 (Hardcover book / Alfred A Knopf )
I don't know if my story is grand enough to be a tragedy, although a lot of shitty stuff did happen. It is certainly a love story but that did not begin until midway through the shitty stuff, by which time I had not only... More »
Dreams Of Speaking
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
In this, her third novel, Gail Jones shows herself to be a writer more and more comfortable with her medium. Alice Black is a young academic with a grant to write about the aesthetics of modernity. For most of her life s... More »
Carpentaria
$26.95 (Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing )
Set in the small, isolated town of Desperance on the Gulf of Carpentaria, Alexis Wright’s second novel conjures up a sweeping and poetic panorama of life in a town that seems a world away from modern civilisation. And ye... More »
